Senior Project Manager – Digital Advisory

Requisition #

PM-L9.16

Job title

Senior Project Manager – Digital Advisory

Category

Project Management

Contract type

Permanent (Employee)

Full Time

• Cape Town
  - Century City, WC ZA
• Tshwane
  - Pretoria, GP 0081 ZA (Primary)

Engineering is more than design and delivery at Zutari; it is the craft of shaping possibility.

As a leading buildings, infrastructure engineering, and advisory practice with over 90 years of heritage across Africa and the Middle East, we work across the full infrastructure lifecycle to deliver innovative, digitally enabled solutions. From bridges and dams to energy systems and smart infrastructure, our work connects communities and unlocks long-term value.

We are looking for technical minds who see beyond constraints and are driven to engineer solutions that matter, today and for generations to come.

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to join Zutari’s Project Management Unit and work primarily on Digital Advisory projects. The role is responsible for the structured delivery of multidisciplinary advisory assignments that combine engineering, asset information, digital delivery, enterprise systems and operational requirements into a single, reliable information environment.

The Senior Project Manager will manage scope, programme, commercial performance, risk, quality, resources and stakeholder interfaces across the asset lifecycle. The role does not require the Senior Project Manager to be the technical expert in every digital discipline. It does require a practical working knowledge and understanding of the infrastructure and asset lifecycle, information flows, information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) environments to coordinate specialists, identify dependencies, spot integration risks early and manage interfaces effectively.

The Senior Project Manager will typically lead several concurrent projects or multi-phase programmes, lead delivery teams drawn from across Zutari and external partners, and play an active role in growing Digital Advisory client relationships and new work.

• Lead the day-to-day management of Digital Advisory projects from initiation and planning through delivery, close-out and handover.
• Select and set up the right delivery approach for each project (stage-gated, Agile or hybrid), with the governance, plans, budgets, forecasts, RAID logs and reporting that go with it.
• Plan and manage technology delivery activities, including requirements and backlog management, sprint and release planning, solution design reviews, configuration and build, data migration, environment and deployment planning (cloud, SaaS and on-premise), cut-over and go-live.
• Plan service transition and hypercare so that solutions are handed over to client IT operations with agreed support models, service-level agreements and ITIL-aligned service management processes in place.
• Manage scope, change, dependencies, assumptions, technical and organisational interfaces, and ensure that deviations are identified and addressed early.
• Own project commercial performance, including fees, expenditure, invoicing, work-in-progress, forecast-to-complete and margin.
• Manage software vendors, system integrators and technology suppliers, including statements of work, licensing, contractual deliverables, service levels and change requests.
• Apply Zutari’s project management, governance, quality and commercial requirements consistently.

• Coordinate specialist work streams such as engineering, BIM and information management, GIS and geospatial, reality capture, data and analytics, enterprise architecture, systems integration, asset management, IT,…