Section Manager Projects at Anglo American

Job Description:

As our Section Manager Projects of your responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Implement plans and systems to avoid specific risks within the working area, review and assess the impact of critical risks, monitor critical control performance within teams, and embed critical controls into teams’ daily work practices.
• Ensure safety by managing systems, assessing capabilities, conducting safety checks, creating reports, analysing KPIs, reporting deficiencies and facilitating safety audits.
• Performance and Delivery
• Project Planning: Create a comprehensive project plan that includes objectives, scope, timelines, resource allocation, budgeting, and risk assessment.
• Stakeholder Management: Identify and engage with project stakeholders, including clients, team members, sponsors, and other relevant parties, to ensure their needs and expectations are met.
• Scope Management: Define and control the project’s scope, ensuring it stays within the defined boundaries and any changes are appropriately documented and approved.
• Schedule Management: Develop and maintain project schedules, monitor progress, and adjust timelines to meet project milestones and deadlines.
• Resource Management: Allocate and manage project resources, including human resources, materials, and equipment, to ensure efficient execution.
• Budget Management: Estimate project costs, create budgets, track expenditures, and manage financial aspects to stay within budgetary constraints.
• Risk Management: Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks to minimise their impact on the project’s success.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure that project deliverables meet quality standards and conform to project requirements.
• Communication: Establish effective communication channels among project team members and stakeholders, providing regular updates and addressing issues or concerns promptly
• Issue Resolution: Identify and resolve project issues and conflicts hindering progress or impacting project outcomes.
• Change Management: Manage and document changes to project scope, schedule, or other aspects and ensure proper change control processes are followed.
• Documentation: Maintain accurate project documentation, including plans, reports, meeting minutes, and project records
• Monitoring and Reporting: Continuously monitor project performance against key performance indicators (KPIs) and report regularly to stakeholders.
• Closure: Oversee the successful completion and closure of the project, including finalising all documentation, conducting post-project reviews, and ensuring a smooth transition to operational status, if applicable
• Customer Satisfaction: Ensure that the client or end-users are satisfied with the project’s outcomes and that their requirements have been met.
• Compliance: Ensure that the project adheres to relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards
• Team Leadership: Lead and motivate the project team, fostering collaboration and managing team dynamics.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify lessons learned from the project and use them to improve processes and future projects.
• Sustainability and Social:
• Implement and coordinate sustainability activities, manage environmental and social requirements, identify risks and opportunities, and participate in stakeholder engagements to improve sustainability performance over time within own team.
• People and Teams:
• Lead and support the development of a purpose-led, high-performing culture within the team by implementing effective team processes, setting clear and consistent expectations, and reinforcing desired culture and values.
• Establish efficient management processes that allocate resources properly, define role authority and accountability structures, and hold individuals accountable for their performance and responsibilities.
• Develop team members by ensuring their knowledge and skills are sufficient, identifying and addressing gaps through coaching, managing the talent pipeline, recruiting proactively, and providing performance insights.
• Compliance:
• Manage and monitor teams’ compliance with external and internal regulations, conduct site inspections, participate in audits, investigate incidents, and share learnings.

This role is in Engineering & Maintenance (E&M) department on a band 6 (D4/D5) level reporting to the Manager Engineering & Maintenance Plant

Qualifications:

• Grade 12
• Relevant Bachelor’s degree in Project Management/ Business Administration/Engineering/ Information Technology on NQF7
• SA Drivers Licence

Advantageous

• Project Management Professional (PMP): Certification by the Project Management Institute (PMI), or
• Prince2: Project Management certification, or
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), or
• Certified Associate in Project
• Management (CAPM), or
• South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) accreditation level 5

Technical Knowledge

• Operational project management knowledge gained through 6-8 years of experience in contractor safety management, including 3 years in a supervisory or managerial capacity.
• Relevant Mining / Process / Engineering/ knowledge, including developing, implementing, managing, and auditing safety and risk control initiatives and programs in a mining environment.
• Knowledge of the Mine Health and Safety Act (Act 29 of 1996) and other related legislation.
• Advanced knowledge of Project Management.
• Computer Literacy: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Demonstrate proficiency in investigating and authoring reports.
• Understand Integrated Risk Management

Closing Date:

• 28 October, 2025