Job Description
To manage aerospace projects from their initiation, through all project phases till closure. Project teams will consist of project managers and engineers from across a variety of functional areas of the organisation.
A Project Manager will establish and work on various projects to manage and ensure the provision of predefined deliverables and services within a predefined time and cost budget, while mitigating project risks / obstacles and managing stakeholder and customer expectations.
QUALIFICATIONS:
B Eng / B Tech, Electric / Electronic / Mechanical preferable
Project Management related certifications advantageous
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:
3 years technical work experience
Project Management experience preferable
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:
- Managing the team to success. This involves overcoming conflicts on the lower level, communicating with team members and tying in key stakeholders
- A project manager needs to have not only technical skills, but also a number of soft skills, including team management, social competency, self-management, and stress management
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Holds full accountability for project success
- Accountable for project initiation, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling and delivery
- Accountable to solicit, track, report, manage and resolve project risks
- Ensure assigned projects adhere to their baselined plan of schedule (timeous) and budget (cost)
- Establish project management plans as required
- Coordinating and integrating tasks/activities and clarifying project objectives within a multidisciplinary team
- Providing support, guidance, motivation and facilitation of the team through the project process
- Interface, communicate, work with and manage expectations of internal and external stakeholders and clients
- Appropriate interpersonal skills that include a sensitivity for intercultural differences
- Establish and maintain project-client contracts and reports
- Establish scope of work, work plan and associated work packages for a given project
- Planning and identifying a project’s required group of skills
- Perform scheduling and resource levelling of multiple simultaneous projects
- Work with functional area management for the appropriate resource assignments
- Track and report on resource loading in support of functional areas and the PO
- Consult respective functional areas to obtain assignments of appropriate resources (capability/skill level/vertical depth) to project tasks
- Managing changes to the project as and when necessary
- Ensure that projects are subject to review and baselined at appropriate stages before progressing onward
- Keep appropriate records according to standing procedures
- Submit reports to the Program Office as required and directed
- Ad hoc engineering support as may be required from time to time
- The mandate on the project manager is to define:
o What task/project is to be done,
o When will the task/project be done,
o Why the task/project will be done,
o How much budget is available to do the task,o How well has the task/project been done in terms of the above aspects
REMUNERATION: Market related.
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