Project Engineer / Engineering Manager

In brief

**Overview** Marvel Placement Consultant's client, a leading project services and engineering organisation, is seeking an experienced Project Engineer / Engineering Manager. This role is based in Irene, Centurion, and involves providing engineering leadership and technical oversight for multidisciplinary projects from design and planning through procurement, construction, and commissioning. The successful candidate will collaborate with clients, consultants, contractors, and internal project teams to ensure projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and in accordance with scope, quality, cost, and schedule requirements. **What you will do** * Lead and coordinate engineering activities across multidisciplinary projects from concept, feasibility, and detailed design through procurement, construction, and commissioning. * Provide technical leadership to engineering teams, ensuring deliverables meet project requirements. * Review engineering designs, specifications, technical reports, calculations, drawings, and other engineering deliverables. * Ensure engineering solutions are practical, fit-for-purpose, safe, and aligned with applicable standards and project requirements. * Coordinate engineering interfaces between mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, process, and other disciplines. * Provide technical input into project planning, execution strategies, and constructability reviews. * Identify engineering risks, technical constraints, and potential design or execution issues, ensuring appropriate mitigation. * Support technical decision-making throughout the project lifecycle. * Manage engineering and technical activities in line with approved scope, budget, schedule, quality, and project objectives. * Lead engineering inputs during project planning, procurement, construction, and commissioning. * Coordinate engineering resources, contractors, consultants, and specialist service providers. * Monitor progress against project milestones and identify potential delays or technical constraints. * Review contractor and supplier proposals, providing technical recommendations. * Support procurement activities through the preparation and review of technical specifications, tender documentation, and technical evaluations. * Monitor the technical performance of engineering and construction packages. * Participate in and lead project reviews, progress meetings, technical meetings, and stakeholder engagements. * Ensure effective coordination between engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning teams. * Provide engineering input into project budgets, cost estimates, and execution schedules. * Monitor Engineering performance against scope, cost, schedule, and quality. * Identify deviations and support the implementation of corrective and recovery actions. * Provide accurate technical and project information for project controls and management reporting. * Review project risks, opportunities, changes, and technical impacts; support change management and variation assessments. * Ensure appropriate engineering documentation, records, and project controls are maintained. * Contribute to project performance reporting for clients and senior management. * Provide technical support throughout the procurement and contractor appointment process. * Review supplier and contractor documentation for compliance with project requirements. * Provide engineering support during construction and resolve technical queries and site-related engineering issues. * Participate in inspections, technical reviews, site walks, and construction progress assessments. * Ensure engineering requirements are effectively communicated to contractors and construction teams. * Support commissioning planning and execution, ensuring engineering deliverables are completed prior to handover. * Assist with punch-list management, completion activities, and final project handover. * Ensure lessons learned and project close-out information are captured and incorporated into future projects. * Develop and maintain strong working relationships with clients, consultants, contractors, suppliers, and internal project teams. * Act as a senior technical point of contact for engineering-related matters. * Present technical information, project progress, and engineering recommendations to stakeholders. * Understand client requirements and ensure engineering deliverables are aligned with agreed project objectives. * Manage technical queries and facilitate effective resolution of engineering and project issues. * Participate in client meetings, project reviews, design reviews, and progress meetings. * Ensure all engineering and project activities comply with applicable health, safety, environmental, quality, and engineering requirements. * Promote a strong safety culture throughout engineering and project execution activities. * Ensure engineering designs and project deliverables comply with relevant legislation, standards, specifications, and client requirements. * Identify and manage technical and project risks throughout the project lifecycle. * Support quality assurance and quality control processes across engineering and project execution. * Ensure non-conformances, technical deviations, and design issues are appropriately investigated and closed out. * Contribute to continuous improvement of engineering and project execution processes. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * Bachelor of Engineering or Engineering Technology degree, preferably Mechanical, Electrical or Civil or any field related to bulk infrastructure. * Minimum 10 years' relevant engineering and project experience, preferably within mining, minerals processing, industrial or infrastructure projects. * Proven experience in project engineering, engineering management and multidisciplinary project execution. * Professional registration with ECSA as a Professional Engineer OR Professional Engineering Technologist. * Proven experience managing engineering activities through design, procurement, construction and commissioning phases. * Experience leading or coordinating multidisciplinary engineering and construction packages. * Strong understanding of project scope, cost, schedule, quality, risk and technical deliverables. * Experience reviewing and approving engineering designs, technical specifications, contractor proposals and engineering deliverables. * Experience with brownfield and/or greenfield project environments. * Strong understanding of engineering interfaces between mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, process and other project disciplines. * Experience working with EPCM, project services, mining or owner-team environments. * Previous experience within the mining, minerals processing or heavy industrial sectors will be advantageous. * Experience with project controls, procurement, cost management and project reporting. * Experience managing engineering and construction contractors and technical service providers. * Strong knowledge of applicable engineering standards, legislation, safety requirements and industry best practice. * Project Management Professional PMP or equivalent project management qualification will be advantageous. * Management or leadership development qualification will be advantageous. * Proficient in MS Office, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint. * Strong analytical, technical, leadership, communication and stakeholder-management skills. * Valid South African driver's licence. * Willingness to travel to project sites when required. **Who should apply** This role is for an experienced Project Engineer / Engineering Manager who is seeking a leadership position within a professional project team at a leading project services and engineering organisation. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor of Engineering or Engineering Technology degree (preferably Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, or related to bulk infrastructure) and a minimum of 10 years of relevant engineering and project experience, particularly in mining, minerals processing, industrial, or infrastructure projects. Professional registration with ECSA is mandatory. The successful applicant will have proven experience in multidisciplinary project execution, managing engineering activities across all project phases (design, procurement, construction, commissioning), and leading or coordinating multidisciplinary engineering and construction packages. Strong understanding of project management fundamentals, engineering interfaces, and applicable standards is required. The role demands strong analytical, technical, leadership, communication, and stakeholder-management skills, along with proficiency in MS Office and a valid South African driver's licence, as travel to project sites will be required. **Deadline** 30 Nov 2026 **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/project-engineer-engineering-manager-marvel-placement-consultant Source: myjobmag

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• At least 10 years of experience.

• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office
• Project management
• Driver's licence

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