Project / Site Manager, Port Elizabeth

Project / Site Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage automotive projects from inception to completion, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
• Coordinate project activities, resources, and stakeholders to achieve project objectives.
• Clear understanding of customer's RFQ and Scope of Supplied offered.
• Communicate project status and updates to stakeholders, team members, and senior management.
• Develop and implement project plans, including scope, schedule, and budget management.
• Monitor project progress, identify risks and issue, and implement mitigation strategies.
• Ensure compliance with industry regulations and safety standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive project success and achieve business goals.
• Overseeing projects onsite

Requirements:

• Diploma or B.Eng. Mechanical / Electrical or Mechatronics Engineering with > 5 years' experience in the automotive industry.
• Relevant knowledge and background in the automotive industry.
• High degree of computer literacy – Knowledge of Microsoft PC applications.
• Ability to understand and meet customer requirements.
• Good process knowledge and understanding will be advantageous.
• Ensure that capacity planning and resource planning is generated on time for all project activities.
• Good understanding of project cost control.
• Budget tracking and responsibility for cost incurred within the project/s for all project activities.
• Customer on-site visits with interventions / mechanical & electromechanical maintenance support.
• Analysis, conception and coordination of marketing and sales activities.
• Ability to prioritise, plan and manage project work effectively and appropriately.
• Strong knowledge of automotive manufacturing processes and technologies.
• High standard of oral and written communication to converse at all levels within the organisation as well as with inter-group personnel,
  customers & suppliers.