Project Manager – Johannesburg needed at Vontier

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Project planning and co-ordination with customer & internal teams on overall and weekly basis.
• Assemble and manage a project team of internal and external professionals.
• Monitor and review the workload of PDS Managers.
• Operating Visual Project Management techniques in daily practice.
• Daily management and monitoring, reporting of important milestones to keep close control.
• Risk management by Issue Tracking, mitigation actions.
• Create and evaluate project reporting; provide timely and accurate project status reporting to internal and external parties.
• Coordinate with Global Product Management & Global Engineering for signoff on project scope.
• Develop a Master Project Plan with detailed Weekly action plan, detailing the resource and time committed for the assigned project.
• Complete all technical integration evaluation of various elements forming an end-to-end solution.
• Define clear product and solutions specifications and drive gap analysis / estimating of work content.
• Develop Functional Specifications and Change Notices.
• Act as the Program Technical Customer Interface.
• Oversee the entire project life-cycle and manage cross-functional team from project initiation to production release and roll out.
• Day to Day management of program team personnel and communication with key stakeholders.
• Develop and manage program schedule ensuring on time delivery of agreed to milestones and deliverables.
• Plan, organize, lead and control the progress of the assigned projects as per the customer requirements.
• Manage project budget and Produce detailed cost breakdowns for all work & task.
• Responsible on Project P&L.
• Responsible for Projects signoffs and Pos.
• Responsible of change requests.
• Working as part of a team, manage resource requirements and utilization, keep up to date trackers of project roll-out activity from initial plan through to invoice.
• Develop the Cost targets as per the Business Plan and in line with the Business requirements.
• Investigate and negotiate change proposals with relevant stakeholders.
• Periodic Monitoring of projects to ensure that milestones and performance indicators are met as per the agreed time frame.
• Direct and coordinate the development of strategies to evaluate the effectiveness of implemented project outcomes and provide advice on remedial action.
• Manage the expenditure of project budgets and prepare associated financial summary reports for members of the steering committee and functional leaders.
• Conduct Alpha and Beta Trials in Field for Product validation process.
• Responsible for ensuring the Activities right from Project Initiation to Project Launch.
• Prepare project status reports and other reports required as per project management methodologies of FBS

PERSONAL QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

Education/achievements   

• Degree in IT, Electronics, Instrumentation 
• PMP or any project management course 

Experience/Knowledge        

• 5- 10 years on hand on project management equivalent combination of experience in an advisory and/or engineering supervisory capacity required

Specific Skills

• Technical project management skills or well-developed business analyst experience

Potential Skills 

• Domain (Preferred Industry) – Petroleum Downstream, Process automation.
• Strong organization with proven leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to perform duties under deadline pressure in a fast-paced, high volume environment.
• Proven record of providing excellent internal and external customer service.
• Experience with gate process and agile methodology.
• Proven sensitiveness of commercial issues and consequences of actions.
• Distributed & multi-cultural team management experience.
• Ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills.