General Manager (Roodepoort)

Introduction

We are lookinf for a General Manager who turns a multi-sector order book into delivery, cash, people and a workshop that can stand a factory assessment. The Members set direction. The GM makes it happen without waiting to be chased.

Duties & Responsibilities

Accountabilities

Business and commercial

• Own operational performance across workshop and projects: output, margin, cash, claims, retention and warranty exposure.

• Keep the monthly director pack honest: portfolio status, exceptions, decisions required, invoicing and procurement — not a status read-out.

• Protect payment: valid invoices, activity completion, bonds, retention and late-payment follow-up.

• Approve overtime, subcontract and major buy-in against load and cash, not habit.

Delivery across sectors

• Balance power, rail, mining, water, industrial and workshop work so one contract does not starve the others.

• Make sure committed lead times, site dates and outage windows are real before they leave the building.

• Escalate programme, quality or commercial risk early. Informal WhatsApp updates do not replace formal reports.

People and legal

• Build and hold the structure in this pack. Vacancies, acting arrangements and agency briefs sit with the GM.

• OHS Act accountability for the workshop and for work under the company's control on client sites. Legal appointments current.

• Industrial relations, discipline and a floor culture that survives a walk-through.

Clients and partners

• Be the senior face for utilities, mines, rail, municipalities, OEMs and JV partners.

• Do not let the company be mistaken for an OEM where it is the commercial or delivery lead. Keep partner roles clean.

Authority

• Day-to-day operational authority within board-approved limits.

• Hire, discipline and exit in the agreed structure, subject to Member sign-off on executive posts.

• Stop a job that is unsafe, unpaid, or off the approved technical / quality path. The GM does not waive quality hold points or change engineering design. Those sit with Quality and Engineering.

Desired Experience & Qualification

Minimum requirements

Company Job Specifications

• Degree or national diploma in engineering, operations or equivalent, plus a real workshop or multi-project industrial background.

• Ten years in industrial / engineering operations, of which five are running people, plant and money — not only a single project.

• Evidence of delivery across more than one sector. A one-plant career will struggle here.

• Comfortable with NEC / FIDIC / client-works-instruction environments, factory assessments and tender personnel evidence.

• Valid driver’s licence. Prepared to travel to sites, plants and partner factories.

Interested?

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