Site Project Manager

Company Description

At Insight, we believe that creating a safe environment enables people and businesses to thrive.

We are one of Africa’s leading providers of integrated risk solutions operating across East and Central Africa whilst investing in further growth in the region. We aspire to making a difference – to our people, to our clients, and to the challenging environments in which we work – based on local knowledge, regional understanding, and global compliance. 

We are experts in high-risk and challenging environments, developing solutions to complex problems. catering to international and non-governmental organizations, United Nations, diplomatic missions, major multinationals, private and commercial clients. Insight is ICOCA Certified and operates to ISO18788 and PSC.1.

Job Description

The Site Project Manager will be assigned to a specific Client contract.

Your responsibility is to ensure outstanding service delivery to the high satisfaction of the Client; and efficient operational delivery.

This will primarily be achieved through (i) effectively managing human and technical resources allocated to the contract; and within project budgets; (ii) ensuring an energetic, responsive, solution-oriented approach to delivering risk mitigation on the Client site; and (iii) developing and maintaining positive, effective and proactive working relationships with key Client stakeholders.

Key responsibilities:

• Managing the service levels and key performance indicators to highest levels.
• Developing Service time-line requirements and managing interdependencies.
• Attending works and shutdown planning meetings.
• Overall service management and work planning.
• Being a Point of Contact (POC) for the Company’s responsible personnel in the execution and planning/scheduling of the Services.
• Continuous improvement of the service delivery and service level to minimum maturity levels.
• Managing the Service Provider’s and the Company’s risk registers.
• Working as a minimum to the Company’s HSE policies and procedures. More restrictive measures, upon approval from Company can be implemented/ proposed.
• Attending the Service Provider and appropriate Company safety, operational meetings.
• Conducting investigations into service provision, of the HSE and security issues.
• Identifying and escalating risks and/or defects to Company’s Security Management.
• Providing technical advice to Company’s Security Management around the Company’s people, equipment, and assets to protect

Qualifications

Essential qualifications and skills include 3 or more years in the armed forces or law enforcement, 4 or more years in private security operating in a high-risk environment, working knowledge and understanding in mining and security operations, and proficiency in English and French. 

A working experiencing in DRC in preferred. 

The ideal candidate should have strong leadership qualities, high energy, be a resourceful problem solver and a good communicator. 

Additional Information

The role offers a competitive salary and will be unaccompanied on a 9 week on and 3 week off pattern, subject to operational requirements.