Civil & Power Generation Projects (Pty) LtdManaging & Commercial Director
Jun. 2022 - Sep. 2025South Africa, BenoniDeliver strategic performance reporting to key stakeholders, ensuring full transparency, governance alignment, and corporate oversight.
Lead and support Directors and Senior Management in executing company strategy, driving functional performance, compliance, and operational delivery.
Identify growth and strategic business opportunities, manage key client relationships, strengthen market positioning, and oversee all marketing, branding, and corporate communication.
Ensure accurate financial data, payroll, procurement, and statutory audit compliance. Monitor company-wide and project-specific revenue vs. cost performance to maintain financial health.
Oversee the preparation of competitive tenders, quantity take-offs, cost estimates, and steer strategic tendering and risk pricing.
Negotiate and manage contract conditions, claims, variations, change control, and dispute resolution. Oversee planning, program management, project control systems and budget vs. cost vs. revenue control functions.
Ensure safe, on-time, and on-budget execution of construction activities. Oversee logistics, plant, labour, subcontractors, assets, SHEQ compliance, Industrial Relations, Site Administration, and Quality Assurance (ISO-9001).
Lead the negotiation of all contract terms and conditions across FIDIC, NEC3, GCC, JBCC, and client-specific or hybrid contract suites. Ensure full contractual compliance and proactively manage exposure related to performance guarantees, sureties, bonds, warranties, penalties, and retentions.
Oversee all internal and external Contract Administration functions, including project budgets, cost management, revenue assurance, and financial forecasting. Ensure accuracy of monthly client payment certificates, internal cost reports, and commercial registers. Maintain a strong Positive Cash Flow position and resolve all contractual, commercial, or financial disputes raised internally or by clients.
Direct the full Project Controls environment, including schedule integration, cost controls, change management, and entitlement preservation. Lead the preparation, negotiation, and defense of claims, variations, extensions of time, disruption, acceleration, and all Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) processes.
Provide strategic oversight of project planning and program management activities using Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, or client-specific scheduling platforms. Monitor critical path, earned value, production performance, and key project KPIs. Identify and mitigate commercial, schedule, and operational risks impacting project execution.
Develop, optimize, and manage end-to-end operational process flows across all functional areas. Produce integrated performance reports, including earned value, cost efficiency, labour productivity, and progress metrics. Provide Operations Leadership with strategic insights and control information to enable efficient delivery and continuous improvement across all project environments.