EPMS (Digitalization) Development Engineer

Location: Johannesburg

Initial Contract Period: 3 months extendable

1. Project Digitalization & EPMS Support

• Support the development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of EPMS and project digitalization solutions.
• Work closely with project teams to understand project progress, milestones, deliverables, and reporting requirements.
• Translate project management requirements into practical digital dashboards, reports, data views, and system functions.
• Support the digital tracking of project progress, including planned vs. actual status, milestones, key deliverables, and completion trends.
• Assist project teams in structuring project data so that progress can be measured consistently across sites, work packages, and project phases.
• Support the integration of project information from different business modules, including materials, quality, EHS, documents, and approvals where required.
• Help define and maintain project reporting logic, status definitions, data ownership, and update rules.
• Work with business users to identify manual reporting activities that can be digitized or automated.
• Support user testing, issue analysis, and enhancement of EPMS functions and reporting solutions.
• Prepare user guidance, reporting definitions, and basic technical documentation for delivered digital solutions.

2. Data Integration & Management

• Maintain the integrity and consistency of project data across operational systems and reporting platforms.
• Monitor data quality and identify missing, duplicated, inconsistent, delayed, or incorrect information.
• Understand and maintain data relationships and dependencies between different project systems and modules.
• Perform data validation and reconciliation between source systems, databases, and digital reports.
• Work with project and operational teams to resolve data-quality and data-ownership issues.
• Establish and maintain appropriate data structures, naming conventions, field definitions, and reporting standards.
• Support data cleansing, transformation, mapping, and correction activities where required.

3. Digital Reporting & Dashboard Development

• Design, build, and maintain digital project-progress dashboards and management reports.
• Translate business and project requirements into clear reporting logic, KPIs, visualisations, and data models.
• Develop reports that consolidate project data from multiple systems, databases, files, and other approved data sources.
• Build reporting views for key project indicators such as progress, milestones, schedule status, completion rate, backlog, risks, and exceptions.
• Develop and maintain data models and analytical datasets required for project reporting.
• Create appropriate relationships, calculations, filters, hierarchies, and drill-down views for management analysis.
• Automate repetitive data preparation and reporting activities where practical.
• Ensure dashboards and reports are user-friendly, logically structured, and suitable for both operational and management use.
• Ensure reported figures accurately reflect the underlying source data and agreed business rules.
• Monitor dashboard and query performance and optimise slow or inefficient reports.
• Maintain existing reports and develop new reports based on changing project and business requirements.
• Support report publishing, access control, version management, and user feedback where applicable.

4. Testing, Data Consistency & Reporting Accuracy

• Ensure consistency between source systems, databases, data models, and project-progress reports.
• Investigate discrepancies between operational data and reported project status.
• Implement validation checks to identify data anomalies, missing updates, and reporting exceptions.
• Ensure reports use the correct data sources, business rules, status definitions, and calculation logic.
• Maintain traceability from reported figures and project status back to their source data.
• Work closely with system owners, project teams, and business users to resolve data and reporting discrepancies.

Project & Business Systems

• Understanding of project management concepts, project lifecycle, milestones, and progress tracking.
• Understanding of project scope, deliverables, work packages, and project structuring.
• Experience working with project teams, business users, and external service providers.
• Understanding of project-related processes such as materials, quality, EHS, documents, and approvals is advantageous.
• Ability to understand business processes and convert them into digital reporting requirements.

Data, Development & Reporting

• Good SQL and relational database knowledge; able to query, join, validate, and analyse project data.
• Experience with BI/reporting tools such as Power BI, SSRS, Tableau, Qlik, or similar.
• Understanding of data modelling, relationships, KPIs, calculations, and dashboard design.
• Ability to link and consolidate data from multiple systems and data sources.
• Understanding of ETL / data transformation concepts and basic data-integration methods.
• Understanding of OLTP, OLAP, data warehouse, and analytical dataset concepts.
• Ability to troubleshoot data consistency, validation, reconciliation, and reporting issues.
• Basic scripting or automation capability (for example Python, Power Query, DAX, or similar) would be advantageous.
• Basic understanding of APIs or system interfaces would be advantageous.

Personal Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.
• High attention to data accuracy and detail.
• Good understanding of business and project processes.
• Ability to translate business requirements into practical digital and reporting solutions.
• Strong organisational and technical documentation skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate across multiple project and technical teams.
• Good communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Proactive approach to identifying data, reporting, and system issues.
• Ability to manage multiple reporting requirements, development tasks, and priorities simultaneously.

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