Vacancy Details
Employer: Komatsu South Africa (Pty) Ltd.
- Lead and manage the Mining Projects Office, ensuring alignment with business and operational strategies
- Plan, execute, monitor and report on large-scale mining and engineering projects
- Drive horizon planning, including risk identification and mitigation strategies
- Ensure compliance with Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) standards and legislation
- Ensure compliance with QAQC principals
- Manage project budgets, financial planning, cost control and audit participation
- Oversee human capital management including workforce planning, performance management, coaching and developmentManage supplier, contractor and stakeholder relationships
- Ensure adherence to corporate governance, procurement and supplier management policies
- Provide regular project updates and reports to senior leadership
Introduction:
We are seeking an experienced Manager: Mining Projects to lead and manage the Project Office within our Mining Operations. This tactical leadership role is responsible for the successful planning, execution and delivery of large-scale technical and engineering projects, while ensuring compliance with safety, governance, and financial standards.
The role requires strong leadership, advanced project management capability, and the ability to collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders across mining and construction environments.
Key Responsibilities
Required Skills
- Project Management: 7 to 8 years
- Excel: 7 to 8 years
- Leadership Skills: 3 to 4 years
- Project Management Managing: 7 to 8 years
- Iso Certifications: 3 to 4 years
Candidate Requirements
- Technical Diploma (preferred)
- Project Management qualification (PMBOK / Certified Project Manager)
- Minimum 7 years’ experience in technical project management
- Minimum 3 years’ leadership experience
- Proven track record managing large-scale engineering or mining projects
- Experience in a technical engineering or mining environment (essential)
- Knowledge of ISO certification standards
- Advanced MS Excel
- Intermediate MS Word and PowerPoint
- Valid driver’s licence
- Knowledge and Proficiency of project management frameworks and methodologies
Qualifications
Experience
Technical & Systems Skills
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About Komatsu South Africa (Pty) Ltd.
We build machines to answer the needs of society. For more than a century, our brand has been synonymous with connection to community. It guides everything we do, from the ways we think about innovation, to how we hire and train new employees around the world, and how we build relationships with our customers.
In 1921, Meitaro Takeuchi founded our company in the town that shares our name. He did so to provide work for the local community after the closure of a nearby copper mine.
Today, we have come a long way from where we started. We have evolved into a truly global company with a diverse workforce comprised of different nationalities and beliefs. And it’s by harnessing the potential of all our different talents and unique perspectives that we push ourselves further.
We explore and help advance the boundaries of technology, developing smart construction equipment and autonomous mining trucks, creating underwater electric bulldozers and even conceptualizing an excavator capable of operating on the moon. Our products and solutions directly support industries essential to the ongoing development of modern societies and everyday life.
For our core customers in forestry, construction and mining, we make big machines that take on even bigger challenges, gentle giants answering the needs of society.
We believe that when people are united by a common goal, the truly remarkable happens. In communities across the globe, we find purpose in creating value through manufacturing and technology innovation to empower a sustainable future where people, business, and our planet thrive together.
Harnessing our collective expertise to go further, we stay true to our brand promise: Creating value together.
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