East Region Mining Practice Lead

Overview

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HDR’s Mining clients have significant technical support needs for their greenfield and brownfield projects related to permitting, design and operations. HDR is seeking an East Region Mining Practice Lead who is a Seller/Doer with a key focus on Technical Leadership/ Project Management/Program Building/ Staff Growth and Business Development. A core focus of the role will be project management, technical support, and program building.

The role requires technical leadership to guide project teams as to the approach, requirements, and scope to solve client challenges and leading the projects to successful completion of the work, monitoring and communicating the status of their projects with HDR operations leadership, and networking internal to HDR to identify and on-board the right multi-disciplinary local and remote team members to support the pursuits and projects.

This will also expand the program service offerings within the East Region through area and national teams, as well as training and mentoring new(er) to mining team members.

Within business development, this role requires client interaction (awareness of client challenges and potential HDR all team opportunities, technical value development and positioning during proposals, through project completion) and strong verbal and written communication skills for interactions with clients, as well as internal staff such as project team members, business development leadership, marketing staff, and operations leadership. The ideal candidate will have strong relationships and significant experience winning and executing projects for mining companies in construction materials, industrial minerals, metals, phosphates, etc.

Additionally, it is expected that this role would include recruiting of personnel to continue to grow the Mining Practice in the East Region, inclusive of expanding our service offerings/capabilities in the Region. Other responsibilities include serving as an active member of relevant local and regional organizations, presenting at industry events, mentoring project teams and collaboratively developing proposals within the region.

• Provide technical leadership to guide project teams on approach, requirements, and scope to solve client challenges and lead projects to successful completion
• Monitor and communicate project status with HDR leadership; network to identify and onboard multi-disciplinary local and remote team members
• Expand program service offerings in the East Region; mentor and train mining team members
• Engage in business development with clients, develop technical value, and position HDR in proposals through project completion
• Cultivate strong client relationships; pursue opportunities and support pursuits and projects with internal HDR teams
• Recruit personnel to grow the Mining Practice in the East Region and expand service capabilities
• Represent HDR in local/regional organizations and industry events; assist in proposal development

• Bachelor’s degree in mining engineering, civil engineering, chemical engineering, or related discipline
• PE in a minimum of one state; multiple states preferred
• Minimum 15 years related industry experience
• Minimum 10 years mining project management experience
• Experience managing mining projects to successful conclusions (on budget, on schedule, with solid safety and quality records)
• Familiarity with multiple commodities, soft and hard-rock mining operations, studies, design, and execution from exploration to closure and reclamation, greenfields and brownfields
• Ability to lead a team on projects
• Strong planning, communication, and mentoring skills
• Excellent competence in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project
• MSHA certification
• Open pit and underground-mine experience
• Hard rock, soft rock and industrial minerals consulting and operations experience
• Mine software experience for block modeling
• Experience working for a mine operating company

• Bachelor's degree in a Professional, Architecture, Engineering or closely related field
• 10 years experience in related field
• Maint…