Mining Project Manager
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Your Opportunity
We are currently seeking a Project Manager to join our Mining, Minerals and Metals team. The Project Manager is the principal liaison between Stantec and the client during the planning and execution of mining studies. The successful candidate will drive the identification, evaluation, selection, and/or optimization for a variety of mining projects as a key service offering for our diverse client base. You will have the opportunity to successfully steer complex mining studies through our various clients’ stage gate processes, developing and applying robust study management techniques, while leading a multi-disciplinary team across multiple offices.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Understand the client’s objectives and study definition guidelines.
- Drive the scope definition and execution planning for each study, working with a multi-disciplinary team to translate the client’s objectives and study definition guidelines into an actionable, controllable scope of work and plan of execution.
- Implement study management processes and procedures, including risk and value management, option identification/evaluation/selection, and assurance activities as required.
- Deliver integrated studies on time and within budget, while ensuring alignment between engineering, estimating, scheduling and risk from Order-of-Magnitude / Preliminary Economic Assessments through to Definitive Feasibility Studies.
- Serve as a technical peer reviewer or Qualified Person in the execution of the technical components of the work. Answer questions and give daily guidance and communications to the project team, thus developing the team’s technical competence.
- Assist the client with crafting the story of their studies, including engagement with other client stakeholders to present the progress and/or outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to lead an integrated team consisting of the owner, Stantec, and other engineering services providers
- Understand and implement various stage gate study standard processes.
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Proven Study or Project leadership experience with high emotional intelligence.
- Influential leader capable of weighing contradicting priorities and securing buy-in on compromise.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- An ability to effectively liaise with external and internal stakeholders from multiple cultures.
- Comfort in managing in a complex environment with a virtual team based around the world.
- High degree of leadership, planning, teamwork, decision-making, judgment, and problem-solving skills.
- An aptitude for steering multi-disciplinary teams towards a common objective.
- Proven history of managing ambiguity and maintaining team progress during periods of significant change.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or a related field from an accredited university is preferred.
- Professional Engineering license (or the ability to obtain a license) is preferred.
- Minimum of 15 years of relevant study/project management experience.
- Direct study experience in the mining and or heavy industry sectors is advantageous.
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
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