EPMS (Digitalization) Development Engineer

Introduction

Location: Johannesburg

Initial Contract Period: 3 months extendable

Duties & Responsibilities

1. Project Digitalization & EPMS Support

• Support the development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of EPMS and project digitalization solutions.

• Work closely with project teams to understand project progress, milestones, deliverables, and reporting requirements.

• Translate project management requirements into practical digital dashboards, reports, data views, and system functions.

• Support the digital tracking of project progress, including planned vs. actual status, milestones, key deliverables, and completion trends.

• Assist project teams in structuring project data so that progress can be measured consistently across sites, work packages, and project phases.

• Support the integration of project information from different business modules, including materials, quality, EHS, documents, and approvals where required.

• Help define and maintain project reporting logic, status definitions, data ownership, and update rules.

• Work with business users to identify manual reporting activities that can be digitized or automated.

• Support user testing, issue analysis, and enhancement of EPMS functions and reporting solutions.

• Prepare user guidance, reporting definitions, and basic technical documentation for delivered digital solutions.

2. Data Integration & Management

• Maintain the integrity and consistency of project data across operational systems and reporting platforms.

• Monitor data quality and identify missing, duplicated, inconsistent, delayed, or incorrect information.

• Understand and maintain data relationships and dependencies between different project systems and modules.

• Perform data validation and reconciliation between source systems, databases, and digital reports.

• Work with project and operational teams to resolve data-quality and data-ownership issues.

• Establish and maintain appropriate data structures, naming conventions, field definitions, and reporting standards.

• Support data cleansing, transformation, mapping, and correction activities where required.

3. Digital Reporting & Dashboard Development

• Design, build, and maintain digital project-progress dashboards and management reports.

• Translate business and project requirements into clear reporting logic, KPIs, visualisations, and data models.

• Develop reports that consolidate project data from multiple systems, databases, files, and other approved data sources.

• Build reporting views for key project indicators such as progress, milestones, schedule status, completion rate, backlog, risks, and exceptions.

• Develop and maintain data models and analytical datasets required for project reporting.

• Create appropriate relationships, calculations, filters, hierarchies, and drill-down views for management analysis.

• Automate repetitive data preparation and reporting activities where practical.

• Ensure dashboards and reports are user-friendly, logically structured, and suitable for both operational and management use.

• Ensure reported figures accurately reflect the underlying source data and agreed business rules.

• Monitor dashboard and query performance and optimise slow or inefficient reports.

• Maintain existing reports and develop new reports based on changing project and business requirements.

• Support report publishing, access control, version management, and user feedback where applicable.

4. Testing, Data Consistency & Reporting Accuracy

• Ensure consistency between source systems, databases, data models, and project-progress reports.

• Investigate discrepancies between operational data and reported project status.

• Implement validation checks to identify data anomalies, missing updates, and reporting exceptions.

• Ensure reports use the correct data sources, business rules, status definitions, and calculation logic.

• Maintain traceability from reported figures and project status back to their source data.

• Work closely with system owners, project teams, and business users to resolve data and reporting discrepancies.

Desired Experience & Qualification

Project & Business Systems

• Understanding of project management concepts, project lifecycle, milestones, and progress tracking.

• Understanding of project scope, deliverables, work packages, and project structuring.

• Experience working with project teams, business users, and external service providers.

• Understanding of project-related processes such as materials, quality, EHS, documents, and approvals is advantageous.

• Ability to understand business processes and convert them into digital reporting requirements.

Data, Development & Reporting

• Good SQL and relational database knowledge; able to query, join, validate, and analyse project data.

• Experience with BI/reporting tools such as Power BI, SSRS, Tableau, Qlik, or similar.

• Understanding of data modelling, relationships, KPIs, calculations, and dashboard design.

• Ability to link and consolidate data from multiple systems and data sources.

• Understanding of ETL / data transformation concepts and basic data-integration methods.

• Understanding of OLTP, OLAP, data warehouse, and analytical dataset concepts.

• Ability to troubleshoot data consistency, validation, reconciliation, and reporting issues.

• Basic scripting or automation capability (for example Python, Power Query, DAX, or similar) would be advantageous.

• Basic understanding of APIs or system interfaces would be advantageous.

Personal Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.

• High attention to data accuracy and detail.

• Good understanding of business and project processes.

• Ability to translate business requirements into practical digital and reporting solutions.

• Strong organisational and technical documentation skills.

• Ability to work independently and collaborate across multiple project and technical teams.

• Good communication and stakeholder-management skills.

• Proactive approach to identifying data, reporting, and system issues.

• Ability to manage multiple reporting requirements, development tasks, and priorities simultaneously.

Interested?

Send CV to recruitment1@factsa.co.za