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Project Manager

Project Manager

CLS Human Capital Specialists • Centurion, ZA
10 days ago
Job description

Job Purpose:

  • To manage end-to-end project delivery, ensuring projects are completed on time, within scope, and within budget while coordinating teams, stakeholders, risks, and project requirements.

REQUIREMENTS

Minimum education (essential):

  • Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field (Electronic or Mechanical Engineering Degree would be advantageous)
  • MBA or PMP certification preferred

Minimum applicable experience (years):

  • 5–7 years' experience with a proven track record of successfully managing complex projects

Required nature of experience:

  • Managing complex projects within the defence, aerospace, RF, microwave, or related engineering industries
  • Delivering technical products and solutions within highly regulated, standards-driven, and quality-controlled environments
  • Project experience delivering hardware products within an electronics-related field, particularly electromagnetics or microwave/RF engineering
  • Managing customer-facing projects, documentation, reporting, and deliverables
  • Managing multiple projects concurrently
  • Exposure to international customers, particularly European customers, is advantageous

Skills and Knowledge (essential):

  • Project planning, coordination, and management
  • Leadership and team management
  • Budget, resource, and risk management
  • Strong stakeholder and customer relationship management
  • Excellent communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
  • Excellent organisational and time management skills
  • Quality assurance, standards, compliance, and governance awareness
  • Customer documentation, reporting, deliverable, qualification, and acceptance process management
  • Process management and continuous improvement
  • Project closure, evaluation, and lessons learned management

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS AND OBJECTIVES

Project Planning & Management

  • Develop project plans, scope, timelines, budgets and resource requirements.
  • Coordinate and manage project activities from initiation to completion.
  • Lead and motivate cross-functional project teams.
  • Ensure projects remain on track and within scope and budget.

Customer & Stakeholder Management

  • Maintain strong relationships with customers, project teams and senior management.
  • Manage customer requirements, expectations and commitments.
  • Coordinate customer reviews, meetings and project updates.
  • Provide regular project progress and financial updates.

Project Governance, Quality & Compliance

  • Maintain accurate project documentation and records.
  • Ensure compliance with customer, contractual and industry requirements.
  • Monitor quality standards throughout project delivery.
  • Coordinate qualification, verification, validation and acceptance activities.
  • Ensure effective project governance and reporting.

Risk, Resources & Problem Solving

  • Identify, assess and mitigate project risks and issues.
  • Optimise personnel, equipment and financial resources.
  • Resolve project challenges and implement corrective actions.
  • Manage changes to project scope and requirements.
  • Support effective decision-making and continuous improvement.

Closing Date: 4 Oct 2026

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Project Manager • Centurion, ZA