Senior Project Engineering Manager Major Mining Projects

Building on our past. Ready for the future

Worley is a global professional services company of energy chemicals and resources experts. We partner with customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their assets. Were bridging two worlds moving towards more sustainable energy sources while helping to provide the energy chemicals and resources needed now.

Objective:

Establishes the project framework for delivering engineering and design and provides cross-discipline coordination/supervision by directing project execution activities and discipline deliverable creation for one large or several smaller projects. Accountable for the safe/sustainable engineering quality cost and schedule delivery of all work by the engineering team on the project.

Responsibilities:

Business Development Support

Assists business development activities by maintaining an up to date personal profile and resume. Builds positive working relationships with external parties such as the customer suppliers and contractors. May be involved in networking negotiations strategic alliancing and cost savings efforts. Supports proposals by developing the cross-discipline execution strategy estimating and reviewing hours / costs writing and reviewing proposal content and presenting to customers. May be called upon to lead all or part of a proposal.

Business Operations

Supports the business by communicating team resource loading and skill requirements to the Discipline Managers. Ensures the project work is covered for vacation and unplanned absences. Mentors/trains and supports the delivery of training. Participates in the employee performance review process. Facilitates coverage of activities when people leave the team. Encourages knowledge of and compliance with requirements and processes. Works to resolve inter-discipline vendor and customer issues. Ensures discipline technical work and team activities meet all health safety environmental and security requirements.

Technical Competency

Ensures team member adherence to generally accepted engineering and design practices regulatory requirements and customer specifications. Supports the standardization of equipment specifications drawings and document templates. Contributes to the understanding of legal requirements and customer specifications whenever viable and lawful. Uses local/global standards to support technical excellence. Ensures checking peer reviews and incorporation of comments and findings.

Project Execution

Participates in project execution strategy and planning. Drives innovative solutions technology advances and methods to effectively deal with working out of sequence. Owns the engineering plan and project scope/cost/time requirements makes certain the discipline teams meet expectations and coordinates the disciplines to ensure project success. Supports management of project change and progressing for the discipline and works with other members of the Project Management Team to take corrective actions regarding any issues staffing requirements scope changes progressing or other events that could affect project completion and/or profitability. Plans inter-discipline quality monitors quality activities drives and participates in squad checking recommends improvements and takes action where required.

Project Deliverables

Facilitates data gathering and the preparation of engineering studies analyses calculations etc. Aids recommendations and facilitates creation of final documentation. Owns the system where technical issues are defined with alternate solutions pros/cons established for multiple solutions and recommendations made through official project documents such as technical queries technical deviations etc. Monitors that final documentation incorporates all relevant information and customer approval is obtained. Reviews and authorizes work done by direct reports.

Procurement Support

Monitors that relevant information is incorporated into equipment/material specifications data sheets testing requirements and material requisitions. Facilitates bid clarifications bid evaluations inter-discipline vendor information review and approval and other certification activities. Reviews and authorizes work done by direct reports.

Site Support

Seeks input from knowledgeable sources and monitors that constructability operability and maintainability reviews are incorporated into engineering/design. Works with site personnel to resolve issues. May create plans or documents that supports construction testing commissioning operations maintenance or decommissioning. May provide or lead on-site support for construction commissioning or turn over.

Global Level Summary

Responsible for an engineering administrative management function directing multi-discipline teams within a specific project or portfolio of smaller projects.
- Typically 100 people and/or a complex project scope and execution.

Qualifications Accreditation Training (Essential)

Trained in leadership and project execution. Will be actively licensed with a local engineering governing body where required by law.

Qualifications Accreditation Training (Desirable): Training in risk management or quality.

Job Specific Knowledge / Experience (Essential):

Has a strong understanding of cross-discipline work interfaces and sequencing. Well versed in project setup instituting work processes monitoring a team execution and closeout. Skilled in estimating project costs and writing proposal content. Adept at budgeting and cost control.
Typically has 20 years of relevant discipline experience and 5 years as a Project Engineering Manager.

Experience in the construction of copper projects including heap leach operations.
Experience managing projects with budgets of USD $2 billion or higher.

Asset:
Bilingual (Spanish/English).

Job Specific Knowledge / Experience (Desirable)

Experience in project management risk management quality procurement or construction execution.

Decision Making

As a member of the Project Management Team recommendations relate to processes systems and project execution strategy. Empowered to make the necessary decisions to achieve the engineering goals in line with the execution plan and with the approval of the Project Manager when there are deviations. Alternatives to technical design are normally contained within the disciplines to ensure accordance with standard engineering principles and company policy. Endorses proposed engineering changes prior to submission to Project Manager/customer.

Supervision Received

Operates with broad management authority receiving minimal technical guidance and control.

Supervision Authority

Cross-discipline Lead Engineers and Lead Designers on the project.

Communication

Effectively communicate and present complex proposals and reports to senior or executive level management. Participative management style with a cooperative team highest tier leadership skills in multi-cultural/national environments.

Systems & Tools (Essential)

Competent in Microsoft Outlook Word Excel Teams and PowerPoint. Can organize information from many sources and retain as per the prescribed format and policies. Has functional awareness of cross-discipline tools. Experienced in coordinating the establishment/use of integrated tools and delivering the benefits of data centric engineering.

Systems & Tools (Desirable)

Competent in Microsoft Access and Visio. Able to touch type.

HSE Capability

Assume hands-on management and implementation of all relevant company HSE requirements. Drive Safe and Sustainable engineering outcomes throughout the asset lifecycle via the application of SEAL. Role-model a commitment to personal well-being and a pro-active approach to continuously improving health safety and environmental performance.

People Skills

Interpersonal: Builds appropriate constructive and effective business relationships throughout the organization; uses diplomacy and tact; is approachable; communicates clearly accurately and consistently both verbally and in written matters. Employs the principles of active listening and encourages feedback from others.
Teamwork: Enjoys working in a small high calibre team with high visibility to senior stakeholders. Able to work and liaise with multiple teams and stakeholders able to prioritise workloads and help other team members to achieve team goals.
Action Orientation: Achieves results set by self and others meets timelines pushes to achieve stretch goals and demonstrates enthusiasm persistence and tenacity. Breaks down work into executable tasks. Acts accountable for work produced and ensures it is right the first time.
Intellectual Capacity: Deals with new concepts and complexity comfortably. Examines problems carefully and thoroughly and understands their interdependencies. Can pull information and ideas from many sources and see the importance of many factors.

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