Project Manager

Date: Nov 25, 2024

Location: Bedfordview, Gauteng, South Africa, 2007

Company: Chart Industries

Ensuring Chart’s Success…

Howden, a Chart Industries Company, is a global leader in air and gas handling products, services and solutions. Howden’s core focus is on providing quality solutions for air and gas handling, and have over a century of experience in doing so.

Howden South Africa Division is looking for an experienced Project Engineer to manage and sell spares related projects from small scale to complex and multidiscipline engineering projects from the tendering stages to manufacturing and delivery to the client, ensuring on-time completion at an appropriate cost and with the required level of quality

What Your Day-to-Day Activities Will Be…

  • Build ongoing customer relations with existing and potential clients in order to support the securing of new business in future.  
  • Execute spares projects by coordination between different departments and divisions, drawing office & engineering, site service team, quality, supply chain.
  • Manage cash flow and the projects finance by managing supplier commitments on projects while tracking and pursuing invoicing milestones to maintaining a positive and favourable cash flow .
  • Manage the integration between project engineers, procurement, quality and suppliers to ensure that completion dates are met within project parameters.
  • Prepare costing and compile the tenders to the customers using the provided spares margin guidelines in order to achieve and maintain our dominant position in the market and ensure our position is not compromised through a perception of overcharging.
  • Manage supplier costing and challenge the pricing where necessary by ensuring only the market related increases are applied using the SEIFSA indices and guides.
  • Actively managing changes, variations and amendments to our contracts
  • Attending client and site project progress meetings and reporting progress on status and risks to management

Your Education Should Be…

  • Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Your Physical Work Environment Will Require…

Your Professional Experience Should Be…

  • Minimum 5 years project management experience.
  • At least 3-5 years’ experience within the power industry.
  • An understanding of fan and pre-heater products.
  • Ability to communicate well at all levels with good presentation skills.
  • A valid Code 08 driver’s licence.
  • MS Office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Projects

Chart is an equal opportunity employer...

Need an Accommodation...

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