Project Manager: Engineer-To-Order (ETO)

Location: Johannesburg, Alrode

Work Arrangement: Onsite

What we do at Weir

We are a global leader in mining technology for a sustainable future. We help our customers extract the resources the world needs more efficiently and more sustainably. Our planet’s future depends on the transition to renewable energy, and that transition can only happen with the metals and minerals our customers deliver. So, we work side by side with mines across the globe to move less rock, use less energy, use water wisely, and create less waste. Together, we drive the shift to smart, efficient, and more sustainable mining.

Make your impact

You’ll be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of Engineer-To-Order (ETO) capital equipment projects, ensuring excellence across scope, schedule, cost, quality, safety and cash. These projects are uniquely engineered to customer and EPC/EPCM specifications, so the role calls for sound engineering judgement, commercial acumen and strong SAP capability. You’ll work with purpose, learn every day and help shape a more sustainable future.

What you’ll do

• People Leadership: Provide strong, visible leadership to cross-functional project teams. Lead and develop Project Engineers: set objectives and KPIs, manage performance, capability development and accountability, and allocate work by complexity, capacity and capability. Work with the MTO Project Manager to balance workload across the ETO and MTO teams. Foster positive team dynamics, engagement and wellbeing. Coach and mentor team members to create a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. 
• Customer & Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain trusted, senior-level relationships with customers, EPC/EPCM contractors, suppliers and internal stakeholders. Act as the Project Manager-level escalation point for customer issues, referring only significant commercial, contractual or reputational matters to the Director: Projects, and represent the PMO with authority. Lead technical and commercial engagements including site visits and key meetings. 
• ETO Project & Contract Execution: Manage a portfolio of complex ETO capital equipment projects (e.g. vibrating screens, hydrocyclones, valves, HPGRs, crushers and conveyors) from handover to close-out, ensuring delivery within scope, budget and schedule. Oversee engineering approvals, procurement, fabrication, testing, inspections and logistics. Integrate cross-functional teams, manage multi-tier supply chains and apply recovery measures (e.g. airfreight, additional shifts) where required. 
• SAP Project Systems (PS) Leadership: Grow into the departmental SAP PS subject-matter expert and develop SAP PS capability across the team, ensuring accurate project creation, budgeting and control, integration with SD, MM, PP and FI/CO, and timely project closure. Drive continuous improvement of SAP PS processes through training, coaching and knowledge sharing.
• Project Management Excellence: Apply best-practice frameworks (PMBOK, PRINCE2, ISO 21500) to manage project time, cost, quality, risk and change. Support tender development and contribute to departmental strategy. Maintain project portfolio tracking and reporting using SAP and Power BI. 
• Financial, Risk & Commercial Accountability: Own project risk management with a commercial focus, using early mitigation and recovery actions to safeguard delivery, prevent liquidated damages and protect profitability. Achieve milestone and cash-collection targets, manage change control and milestone invoicing, monitor as-sold versus actual margins and support financial reporting. 
• Travel Requirements: Willingness to travel to mining and project sites as needed to support project delivery and stakeholder engagement. 
• Safety First: Demonstrate 100% commitment to our zero harm behaviors in support of our drive towards developing a world-class safety culture.

What you’ll bring

Must-haves:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• Minimum 8 years of proven project management experience in a multidisciplinary engineering or project-house environment, delivering Engineer-To-Order (ETO) capital equipment projects within the manufacturing, mining, minerals processing or heavy engineering.
• Strong commercial acumen and working knowledge of SAP, ideally SAP Project Systems (PS).
• Experience with contractual law in an engineering/project management context. 
• Proven leadership skills managing cross-functional teams and complex stakeholder environments.
• Valid driver’s licence.

Nice-to-have(s): 

PMP certification (PMI) or actively working towards certification; a postgraduate qualification in Project Management is advantageous. 

Why join Weir?

We live our values we think safety first, do the right thing, respect each other, aim high, and delight our customers. We encourage our people to lead by example and celebrate our successes. 

We’re passionate about our purpose to help deliver the natural resources that are essential to create a better future for the world. We do this by combining our deep customer insights, world-class engineering, materials science expertise, and intelligent automation to deliver innovative end-to-end solutions incorporating our signature technologies. 

We believe your voice matters and your ideas make a difference. We’re working hard to nurture a diverse culture where our people feel like they belong and can do the best work of their lives. You can help shape our unique culture through our inclusion networks and safety initiatives.

Benefits 

• Competitive pay.
• Career development and learning support. 
• Access to global inclusion networks. 
• Regional and team-specific benefits. 
• Sharebuilder scheme. 
• Wellness support for you and your family. 
• Collaboration with global teams. 
• Study support.

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