Manager of Mine Hoisting and Shafts

At Stantec, we help deliver the critical minerals needed to power our world, from the cars we drive to the infrastructure powering our communities. And we don't just design the largest, deepest, and most technically challenging mines in the world-we do it sustainably. We're helping clients reduce energy usage, adopt clean energy sources, and implement digital solutions and automation.

Join our team of mining professionals and you'll be at the forefront of this evolving industry while building the mine of the future. You'll also build your own future, with exciting opportunities for development and advancement.

Your Opportunity

Stantec Consulting is seeking a Senior Mine Hoisting and Shaft Specialist Design Professional Engineer, to join our Professional Consulting Services team as a Manager of our Hoisting and Shaft team. This role involves the direct Management of a team of hoisting and shaft design people, for large-scale, iconic, deep-level projects across the full project lifecycle, and includes some flagship projects as well as international exposure.

The successful candidate will develop and implement best-in-class engineering practices, tools, and innovations, ensuring the timely and successful delivery of technical solutions that meet or exceed client expectations.

Your

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

* Strong Technical Leadership - Provide clear technical direction and oversight and ensure that teams integrate designs so that they are compliant, and constructible. Maintain enough depth to review designs, challenge assumptions, and resolve technical issues early.

* Multidisciplinary Coordination & Integration - Provide oversight across all engineering disciplines to deliver a coherent system while flagging issues, managing interfaces, assumptions, constraints across teams, and providing oversight for execution planning, cost, and schedule.

* Clear Communication & Accountability - Establish structured communication, ensuring issues, decisions, and actions are tracked and closed out, act as the bridge between engineers, management, and clients, and maintain team discipline and drive accountability with clear roles and responsibilities.

* Quality, Risk, and Governance Focus - For Hoisting and Shaft work, own technical quality, assurance, and compliance with standards, identify and manage risks early, and ensure disciplined review processes are used, to avoid rework and late-stage issues.

* People Leadership & Team Development - Provide day-to-day leadership, enabling teams to deliver safely and efficiently. Build a collaborative environment and develop team capability, delegate effectively and remove blockers rather than micromanaging.

Project Execution

* Provide specialized expertise for hoisting and shaft system designs.

* Ensure hoisting team consistently delivers work within allocated scope, budget, and schedule.

* Formulate and implement recovery plans for underperforming hoisting teams.

* Perform quality control on engineering deliverables within the hoisting design space.

* Collaborate with other Discipline Managers and guide teams to develop cohesive hoisting plant and headframe designs.

* Contribute to risk assessment and hazard identification in the design process.

* Where applicable, provide Professional Engineering sign-off on designs that can be used for construction, in the United States of America.

Business Development

* Support business development and client relationship management.

* Assist with technical proposal development by providing project scope, budget, and design approaches, providing all inputs related to shaft and hoisting scope.

* Represent the company at technical conferences and client meetings.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

* Strong leadership skills and consulting and stakeholder engagement skills.

* Excellent client-facing communication skills, including conflict resolution in a professional manner.

* Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic work environment.

* Exceptional problem-solving and organizational abilities.

* Knowledge of quality and safety standards, with an emphasis on Health Safety Security and Environment (HSSE).

* Strong work ethic.

Education and Experience

* Bachelor's or master's degree in mechanical engineering.

* Licensed Professional Engineer in the USA, or the ability to be licensed within 6 months from the date of hire.

* 15-20 years of experience, with at least 5 years of practical shaft and hoist construction or maintenance experience in the field.

* Proven experience leading engineering design work and managing engineering teams.

* Exceptional working knowledge of hoisting systems, shafts, head frames, industry standards, and design tools.

* Understanding of shaft sinking and associated methodologies.

* Good understanding of underground operations around mine shafts, including shaft stations, personnel and material flow, shaft pipes and electrical services (routing), and muck flow in and out of the hoisting systems.

* Familiarity with CAD modelling,…