About the position
Project Engineer to Project Manager — Turnkey Mineral Processing Projects
Location: Centurion, Gauteng
High-performance, fast-paced team seeking ambitious engineers who thrive on ownership, technical challenge, and greener mining solutions.
Step into a visible, career-accelerating role where you’ll lead turnkey mineral processing projects from concept to handover. You will integrate process, civil, mechanical, electrical, and C&I disciplines, drive practical solutions under tight timelines, and help shape more sustainable mining practices. This is ideal for engineers who want real responsibility, rapid progression, and a culture that rewards results and initiative.
Responsibilities:
- Lead multidisciplinary projects and be accountable for delivery, quality, safety, schedule, and budget.
- Own client relationships and translate operational needs into executable engineering solutions.
- Drive continuous improvement with a focus on efficiency and greener process options.
- Operate with autonomy in a solutions-first, performance-driven environment.
Minimum experience and qualifications
- Experience: Minimum 3 years as a Project Engineer in mining or heavy engineering.
- Degree: BEng or BSc in Mechanical, Electrical, Metallurgical, or Industrial Engineering.
- Advantage: Project Management qualification.
Core responsibilities and skills required
- Project delivery: Manage and execute design, procurement, construction, and commissioning activities across Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, and Instrumentation scopes.
- Technical ownership: Review designs and technical documentation, compile FDS, and accept design and execution responsibility.
- Planning and finance: Create project schedules, forecasts, budgets, quotations, orders, payment certificates, and invoicing.
- Compliance and safety: Ensure adherence to the Mine Health and Safety Act and company safety standards.
- Contract and supplier management: Generate and negotiate contracts, manage orders, and oversee subcontractors and site personnel.
- Quality assurance: Ensure work meets QCP and QC inspection standards and capture client feedback.
- Execution accountability: Take full responsibility for on-time, on-budget project execution and client satisfaction.
This role is ideal for:
Ambitious, hands-on engineers who perform under pressure, communicate clearly with stakeholders, and prefer action over bureaucracy. You are technically strong, commercially aware, and motivated by delivering measurable outcomes in a greener, more efficient mining environment.
Apply directly through the listing or email your CV to [Email Address Removed]. If you have not received a response within two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.
Desired Skills:
- EPCM
- mineral processing
- minning
- mining solutions
- project engineer
- project manager
- turnkey projects
