{"id":3979514,"url":"https://alion.io/job/recruitment-legends-project-manager-engineering","title":"PROJECT MANAGER - ENGINEERING","company":{"id":4496099,"name":"Recruitment Legends","domain":null,"url":"https://alion.io/company/recruitment-legends","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":true,"employer_type":"agency","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":null,"truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":6,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":5,"computed_at":"2026-11-15T07:52:55Z"}},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Cape Town, South Africa"],"countries":["ZA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":60000,"max":90000,"currency":"ZAR","period":"month","gross":true,"usd_annual":65832},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AutoCAD","optional":false},{"name":"Microsoft Office","optional":false},{"name":"Power BI","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-09T17:44:03Z","employer_posted_date":null,"last_verified_at":"2026-11-09T17:44:03Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":null,"days_open":5,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":5},"description":"Introduction\nPROJECT MANAGER – ENGINEERING - Vanderbijlpark - R60,000 – R90,000 CTC per month\n\nLocation: Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng\n\nEmployment Type: Full-time\n\nIndustry: Rail Engineering | Heavy Manufacturing | Engineering & Fabrication\n\nSalary: R60,000 – R90,000 CTC per month\n\nABOUT THE COMPANY\n\nOur client is an established South African engineering and manufacturing business operating within the heavy-haul railway and rolling-stock sector.\n\nThe business operates across rail engineering and manufacturing, including the design, manufacture, refurbishment and lifecycle support of railway equipment such as rolling stock, wagons, bogies and locomotives.\n\nThe organisation operates in a technically demanding heavy-engineering environment where projects involve engineering design, procurement, steel fabrication, machining, welding, assembly, refurbishment, quality control and final delivery.\n\nThe company is seeking an experienced Project Manager – Engineering to take ownership of engineering and manufacturing projects from initial project award through to successful completion and handover.\n\nThis is a senior project-management position requiring an individual who can combine technical engineering understanding, commercial project control, planning, stakeholder management and strong execution capability.\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nThe Project Manager – Engineering will have overall responsibility for the successful planning, coordination and execution of assigned engineering and manufacturing projects.\n\nThe successful candidate will manage projects from contract award / project initiation through engineering, procurement, manufacturing, fabrication, assembly, inspection, testing, delivery and final handover.\n\nThe Project Manager will be accountable for ensuring that projects are delivered:\n\n On time.\n\n Within approved budget.\n\n To the required engineering specification.\n\n To agreed quality standards.\n\n Safely.\n\n In accordance with contractual requirements.\n\n In line with customer expectations.\n\n At the required level of profitability.\n\nThe role will require extensive coordination between Engineering, Production, Procurement, Quality, Stores, Maintenance, Finance, Commercial and the client.\n\nThe successful candidate should be comfortable working in a heavy engineering, fabrication or industrial manufacturing environment, and must have the ability to understand the technical, commercial and operational implications of project decisions.\n\nDuties & Responsibilities\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\n\n1. End-to-End Project Management\n\n Take full ownership of assigned engineering projects from inception to completion.\n\n Develop project execution plans.\n\n Establish project objectives, deliverables and milestones.\n\n Define project scope and responsibilities.\n\n Establish project schedules and implementation plans.\n\n Coordinate all internal and external resources required for project delivery.\n\n Monitor project progress against agreed milestones.\n\n Ensure projects remain aligned with contractual requirements.\n\n Identify potential delays and implement recovery plans.\n\n Manage project close-out and final handover.\n\n Ensure all project documentation is completed and properly archived.\n\n2. Project Planning & Scheduling\n\n Develop detailed project schedules covering engineering, procurement, manufacturing, fabrication, inspection, testing and delivery.\n\n Establish project milestones and critical-path activities.\n\n Coordinate project schedules with Engineering and Production.\n\n Identify dependencies between project activities.\n\n Monitor actual progress against baseline schedules.\n\n Identify schedule slippage at an early stage.\n\n Develop mitigation and recovery plans.\n\n Regularly update project programmes.\n\n Communicate schedule changes to relevant stakeholders.\n\n Ensure project teams understand their deadlines and deliverables.\n\n Drive accountability for milestone achievement.\n\nExperience with MS Project, Primavera P6 or equivalent project scheduling software would be advantageous.\n\n3. Project Budget & Cost Management\n\n Establish and maintain project budgets.\n\n Monitor project expenditure against approved budgets.\n\n Track actual and committed project costs.\n\n Monitor labour, materials, procurement, subcontractors and manufacturing costs.\n\n Review project cost forecasts.\n\n Monitor project margin and profitability.\n\n Identify cost overruns and emerging financial risks.\n\n Work closely with Finance and Project Cost Control.\n\n Review project financial performance with management.\n\n Ensure approved variations and scope changes are financially reflected.\n\n Implement cost-control measures where required.\n\n Ensure project expenditure remains aligned with contractual scope.\n\nThe Project Manager will be expected to understand the relationship between:\n\nScope → Resources → Schedule → Cost → Risk → Margin → Final Project Result.\n\n4. Engineering Coordination\n\n Act as the central project interface between the customer and Engineering.\n\n Coordinate engineering deliverables.\n\n Ensure engineering work is aligned with project requirements.\n\n Monitor engineering design milestones.\n\n Coordinate drawing and document approvals.\n\n Ensure engineering changes are properly controlled.\n\n Identify technical issues that could affect project delivery.\n\n Coordinate engineering queries and resolutions.\n\n Ensure production receives the correct and approved engineering information.\n\n Identify opportunities to improve manufacturability.\n\n Participate in technical project reviews.\n\n Coordinate technical responses to customer queries.\n\nThe successful candidate should be technically credible enough to engage effectively with engineers, technical specialists and manufacturing teams.\n\n5. Procurement Coordination\n\n Coordinate procurement requirements with project schedules.\n\n Identify long-lead items.\n\n Ensure procurement activities commence in sufficient time.\n\n Monitor supplier progress.\n\n Track purchase orders and major commitments.\n\n Identify procurement delays that could affect project delivery.\n\n Work with Procurement to resolve supplier issues.\n\n Monitor supplier quality and delivery performance.\n\n Ensure materials and components arrive in line with production requirements.\n\n Escalate critical procurement risks.\n\n Assist in supplier evaluation where appropriate.\n\n6. Manufacturing & Production Coordination\n\n Coordinate project requirements with Production.\n\n Ensure production schedules support overall project deadlines.\n\n Monitor manufacturing progress.\n\n Identify production bottlenecks.\n\n Coordinate engineering changes with manufacturing.\n\n Ensure materials, drawings and specifications are available before production begins.\n\n Monitor fabrication, machining, welding, assembly and refurbishment activities.\n\n Resolve project-related production issues.\n\n Ensure production milestones are achieved.\n\n Coordinate inspection and testing requirements.\n\n Ensure completed products are ready for customer acceptance and delivery.\n\nExperience with heavy fabrication, steel structures, rolling stock, mining equipment or industrial machinery will be highly advantageous.\n\n7. Stakeholder Management\n\nManage relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, including:\n\n Customers.\n\n Engineers.\n\n Production Managers.\n\n Production Supervisors.\n\n Procurement.\n\n Suppliers.\n\n Subcontractors.\n\n Quality/QA/QC.\n\n Finance.\n\n Commercial teams.\n\n Senior management.\n\n Logistics providers.\n\n Inspectors and certification bodies.\n\nThe Project Manager must ensure that communication is clear, timely and commercially appropriate.\n\n8. Customer Management\n\n Act as a key point of contact for assigned customers.\n\n Maintain professional and productive customer relationships.\n\n Conduct regular project progress meetings.\n\n Provide accurate project updates.\n\n Manage customer expectations.\n\n Respond to technical and commercial queries.\n\n Escalate issues appropriately.\n\n Coordinate customer inspections and approvals.\n\n Manage customer change requests.\n\n Ensure commitments made to customers are realistic and achievable.\n\n Maintain customer confidence throughout project execution.\n\n Support successful final handover and project close-out.\n\n9. Risk Management\n\n Establish and maintain project risk registers.\n\n Identify technical, commercial, procurement, production and scheduling risks.\n\n Assess probability and potential impact.\n\n Develop appropriate mitigation strategies.\n\n Monitor risk-mitigation actions.\n\n Escalate high-impact risks to senior management.\n\n Identify emerging risks throughout the project lifecycle.\n\n Monitor risks associated with suppliers and subcontractors.\n\n Monitor risks associated with engineering changes and scope creep.\n\n Ensure contingency plans are developed for critical project activities.\n\n10. Change & Scope Management\n\n Maintain strict control over project scope.\n\n Identify scope creep.\n\n Ensure customer changes are formally documented.\n\n Assess the time and cost implications of changes.\n\n Coordinate internal technical assessments of proposed changes.\n\n Ensure commercial approval is obtained where required.\n\n Update project budgets and schedules following approved changes.\n\n Maintain a project change register.\n\n Ensure project teams are working to the latest approved requirements.\n\n11. Quality Management\n\n Ensure projects are delivered in accordance with required quality standards.\n\n Coordinate closely with QA/QC.\n\n Ensure inspections and testing are completed at appropriate project stages.\n\n Monitor non-conformances.\n\n Ensure corrective actions are implemented.\n\n Monitor rework and quality-related delays.\n\n Ensure customer quality requirements are understood and achieved.\n\n Coordinate customer inspections.\n\n Ensure required quality documentation is completed.\n\n Support internal and external audits where required.\n\nExperience working within ISO-certified engineering/manufacturing environments will be advantageous.\n\n12. Health & Safety\n\n Ensure project execution complies with applicable health and safety requirements.\n\n Promote a strong safety culture across project activities.\n\n Ensure project-specific safety requirements are identified.\n\n Coordinate with SHEQ/OHS personnel.\n\n Ensure contractors and subcontractors comply with site requirements.\n\n Identify project-related safety risks.\n\n Ensure appropriate corrective actions are implemented.\n\n Never compromise safety to achieve project deadlines.\n\n13. Resource Management\n\n Identify project resource requirements.\n\n Coordinate engineering resources.\n\n Coordinate production capacity.\n\n Identify specialist skills required.\n\n Coordinate contractors and subcontractors.\n\n Monitor resource utilisation.\n\n Ensure resources are available in accordance with project schedules.\n\n Identify resource constraints early.\n\n Escalate resource conflicts between projects.\n\n Balance project priorities with available company capacity.\n\n14. Project Reporting\n\nPrepare accurate and timely project reports covering:\n\n Project status.\n\n Schedule performance.\n\n Budget performance.\n\n Actual expenditure.\n\n Committed expenditure.\n\n Forecast expenditure.\n\n Project margin.\n\n Engineering progress.\n\n Procurement progress.\n\n Production progress.\n\n Quality.\n\n Safety.\n\n Risks.\n\n Opportunities.\n\n Variations.\n\n Customer issues.\n\n Critical decisions required.\n\n Overall project health.\n\nManagement should have a clear understanding at all times of:\n\nWhere the project is → where it should be → what is going wrong → what is being done about it → what the final outcome is expected to be.\n\n15. Project Meetings\n\n Chair or participate in project progress meetings.\n\n Conduct internal project reviews.\n\n Coordinate engineering meetings.\n\n Coordinate production/project planning meetings.\n\n Conduct supplier progress meetings where required.\n\n Participate in customer progress meetings.\n\n Record actions and responsibilities.\n\n Monitor completion of outstanding actions.\n\n Escalate overdue critical actions.\n\n16. Project Close-Out\n\n Coordinate final project completion.\n\n E...","description_format":"text","description_chars":16082,"description_truncated":true,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Industrial Machinery","Supply Chain"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-09T19:04:35Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":27,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.47,"p_room":0.578,"age_days":5,"expected_fill_days":5,"reasons":["seen:5","agency","velocity","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-11-15T07:52:55Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":65832,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/recruitment-legends-project-manager-engineering","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/recruitment-legends-project-manager-engineering.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-15T10:51:56Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":26625,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-16T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4496099},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4496099"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Frecruitment-legends-project-manager-engineering"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"free","price":{"credits":0,"usd":0},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Frecruitment-legends-project-manager-engineering"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Frecruitment-legends-project-manager-engineering"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/recruitment-legends-project-manager-engineering\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Frecruitment-legends-project-manager-engineering"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3979514}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":4496099,"detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3979514},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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