QUALIFICATIONS:

• Relevant formal qualification – Solar PV Installation Certificate or Electrical Trade Test
• Relevant work experience in construction management in lieu of formal qualification
• Wireman’s licence would be advantageous

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Efficient in MS Office Suite
• Effective communication skills
• Analytical ability and attention to detail
• Understanding of solar installations and understanding of solar construction methods
• Practical understanding of various construction trade disciplines and or fields
• Self-starter with ability to work professionally and independently

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• 5 year’s Site Management and Supervisory experience in the construction or facility management environment

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Health and Safety

• Daily – ensure tool box talks by team leaders are done or do them self
• Ad-hoc - Provide HSE topics to for tool box talks
• Daily – ensure compliance to safety file including heat stress, fall arrest, waste management & housekeeping
• Report all incidents/accidents and near misses to the SHEQ Officer and Construction Manager before the end of the shift
• Ensure you have at least 1 x First Aider and 1 x Fire Fighter on site
• Ensure safety induction is conducted for all visitors

Performance Management

• Daily Plan of the day – Set out work to be done with team leaders
• Daily Plan of the day – Ensure team leaders understand tasks and resource requirements for work to be done
• Daily site access - Ensure containers, stores laydowns, roof access is opened and secured every day.
• Daily site inspection - Walk the site & inspect for safety hazards before work can commence
• Weekly – attend construction meeting with the PM or Engineer
• Monthly team leader appraisal forms – Submit last Friday of the month by COB
• Monthly asset register - Submit last Friday of the month by COB
• Monthly vehicle register - Submit last Friday of the month by COB
• Daily manage work efficiency of site teams
• Daily manage compliance to technical specifications
• Daily submit a 1 day look ahead to the CM
• Weekly submit a 1 week look ahead
• Ad-hoc – submit requests for information, acceleration or hinderance reports

Quality Assurance and Control

• Manage defective material – ensure it is quarantined and report within 24hours
• Manage quality – complete milestone checklists and present to commissioning manager

Project Reporting

• Weekly by COB on a Friday –
• Send 1 annotated photo to the CM per roof per site showing progress
• Send a completed a progress report per site to the CM
• Send a completed stock take report per site to the CM
• Send a quality report per site to the CM
• Weekly by 10am on a Monday – send the time sheets to the Project Administrator

Site Management

• Design review – participate in the 80% review when required
• Project kick off – attend site meetings as required
• Logistic plan – create a logistic plan per site
• Logistic plan – source quotations for equipment or services required
• Balance of system material – measure drawings and issue requests for quotation to suppliers
• Prepare and deliver all field test reports and hand over documents to the commissioning manager
• Close out project after practical completion has been achieved
• Project budgets – prepare a construction plan and assist the construction manager to compile the build budgets