Introduction To provide expert knowledge and management of project risk management as a function across all large and mega projects and provide project risk management guidance to business units in a functional leader capacity.
To set project risk management standards and to ensure that sound practices are applied across all projects, adding maximum value for business of today/tomorrow.
To monitor large and mega project risk management’s alignment to governance requirements.
To support the project insurance provision process for large and mega projects.
Duties & Responsibilities Compliance, Governance and Assurance • Set project risk management guidelines and standards in conjunction with manager, project compliance and governance and ensure compliance and governance across all projects • Adhere to Mine Health and Safety Act (MHSA) and Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) • Comply with company specific Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures and other legal requirements • Conduct assurance reviews on risk management project processes • Facilitate project risk reviews • Develop, maintain and govern Group standards for risk management • Ensure that project managers have adhered to Group standards of risk management with regard to risk identification, risk analysis, risk evaluation and project risk monitoring and control • Manage all risk audits • Set and maintain project insurance procedure to ensure that projects are properly insured for the construction activities and business impacts of the project • Provide guidance to the projects to establish the insurance requirements based on the insurable risks. • Support and play an oversight role in ensuring that there is compliance to the agreed treatment and controls for the insured risks where required. • Set and maintain project Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) standard to enable consistent application of process and outputs across large and mega projects in utilising Monte Carlo or similar techniques for quantifying risk impacts to project performance • Set and maintain the Contractor Risk Management specification for projects in conjunction with Supply Chain, Capital Buying • Ensure technical compliance by projects to the contractor risk management specification. This includes tender adjudication and the integration of the contractor risk deliverables into the project’s risk management process • Maintain and ensure that risk management documentation and standard. forms are used at the appropriate phases of the project for contractor risk management specification.
Functional Excellence • Standardise, simplify and speed-up project risk management processes, project insurance and contractor risk management and eliminate duplication/bureaucracy • Develop and apply project risk management best practices and promote sharing of best practices/knowledge between centres • Drive and execute functional excellence initiatives • Contribute to project risk management functional/cross-functional alignment with other project and functional disciplines • Contribute to effective reporting to ensure safety and operational excellence • Provide high level expert technical assurance to project teams/individuals, increase awareness of technology advancements/innovations to ensure access to appropriate outputs, to meet business deliverables • Identify, report and manage critical functional risks through appropriate mitigation plans and actions • Governance:
Ensure the function adheres to Group governance, policies, standards, statutory and legal compliance. Entrench a culture of discipline • Act as the "intelligent buyer" of outside competencies, skills and technology to fulfil required deliverables if and when required • Contribute to integration of project functional disciplines (Estimating, Schedule, Cost, Engineering, Project Safety etc.), by focusing to ensure that the outputs from the various disciplines are integrated into the risk management process Functional Management • Financial management: Support cost management and forecast drives by manager • Performance management: Contributes to the functional strategic plan implementation through disciplined execution processes, track implementation and provide status (success and failure) feedback to manager, project compliance and governance for integrated functional management approach. Set and maintain high performance standards. Track and drive targets/goals and hold project risk management team members responsible for achieving results. Remove obstacles that interfere with reaching objectives and manage performance problems • Continuous improvement and functional change: Identify, advocate for and lead project risk management improvement and change. Create a culture of continuous improvement and change agility in function • Engagement/communication: Communicate and engage project risk management employees (including insourced resources). Engage with operations and cross-functionally with peers • Develop and build strategic partnerships with suppliers in order to ensure effective and efficient execution of all types of projects • Project Risk Management System: Identify requirements to enable a fit for purpose application of the Group Corporate Risk System (SAP GRC) to project risk management use. Identification and enforcement quality requirement on risk register records to enable accurate reporting and analysis to be completed on risk register content Knowledge Management and Continuous Improvement • Ensure knowledge sharing across Business Units (BUs) and projects • Facilitate risk management community of practice (with all insourced resources) • Knowledge sharing, investigation on Group related issues and guidance and coordination of actions to reduce risk management risks • Maintain consolidated active Group wide lessons learned for risk management Safe and Healthy Work Environment • Adhere to all health/safety practices and promote good housekeeping on an ongoing basis • Address all unsafe practices, potential hazardous situations and rectify/report to superior • Comply with Safety Health Environment and Community (SHEC) and technical requirements • Comply with safety pre-cautionary measures
Technical Support • Provide the necessary guidance and support upfront to ensure compliance to the risk management standards • Assist project managers and/or insourced project risk managers with technically complex risk management advice where required • Provide support to project managers and BUs project managers in instances where there is no appointed project risk manager • Train project managers on risk management process where required • Attend project risk review and facilitate these reviews where Required • Providing expert guidance and support to estimation on contingency setting via quantitative risk analysis (QRA) projects where required
Desired Experience & Qualification BEng Engineering or BSc Engineering/ Finance or Auditing (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum) •
6-8 Years Experience in Project Management Methodologies, Project Management Body of Knowledge, Project Risk Management, quantitative risk analysis, risk assurance, project insurance and Improvement. • Relevant Engineering Management exposure and problem solving and optimisation (Recommended/Desirable)
PMI-RMP (PMI Risk Management Professional) Certification (Recommended/ Desirable) • Must have worked as a project risk manager on large/mega projects in mining and heavy industry (Recommended/ Desirable)
Management Development Programme (Recommended/Desirable)
Certificate Project Management (Essential/ Minimum)
Package & Remuneration R132 350
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