Education Bachelor of Technology/Engineering(Mining) Job Description Reporting to:
Technical Studies Lead ROLE PURPOSE :
The Senior Project Engineer – Studies & Delivery supports the Technical Studies Lead in the execution and coordination of MDO's project studies across the full Front-End Loading (FEL) lifecycle. The role is responsible for managing assigned study work streams, coordinating multi-discipline technical inputs, maintaining study progress tracking systems, and ensuring consultant deliverables meet MDO's quality, governance, and schedule requirements.
Operating under the technical direction of the Technical Studies Lead, the Senior Project Engineer serves as a key day-to-day interface with study consultants and specialist technical firms, resolves technical integration issues across disciplines, and prepares study documentation for gate reviews. The role contributes to the preparation of investment-quality study outputs from Scoping through to Gate 3 FID.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :Study Workstream Execution & Coordination
- Manage and coordinate assigned study work streams across all FEL phases — Scoping (G0–G1), Pre-Feasibility Study (G2), Definitive Feasibility Study (G3), and FEED — ensuring each workstream is delivered to agreed scope, schedule, and budget under the direction of the Technical Studies Lead.
- Prepare and maintain study workstream schedules, deliverable registers, action logs, and milestone trackers for each assigned study phase, providing regular status updates to the Technical Studies Lead.
- Identify deviations from approved study plans early and escape to the Technical Studies Lead with proposed corrective actions.
- Maintain the study document register for assigned work streams, ensuring version control, document traceability, and alignment with MDO's governance framework from concept through to Gate 3.
- Coordinate the collection, consolidation, and review of technical inputs from consultants and internal MDO functions at each study milestone.
- Apply lessons learned from previous studies and projects to the design of study scopes and management plans.
- Serve as the day-to-day owner-side interface with assigned study consultants and specialist technical firms on behalf of the Technical Studies Lead, ensuring deliverable quality, schedule adherence, and alignment with MDO's terms of reference.
- Review and comment on consultant draft deliverables — including technical reports, study inputs, engineering calculations, cost estimates, and discipline outputs — providing structured, evidence-based feedback in accordance with MDO's quality standards.
- Maintain consultant deliverable registers and KPI tracking systems, monitoring consultant progress, flagging performance issues, and reporting to the Technical Studies Lead.
- Coordinate RFI processes, technical queries, and clarification requests between MDO and study consultants, ensuring timely resolution and documentation.
- Support the Technical Studies Lead in the procurement and onboarding of study consultants, including scope of work development, terms of reference preparation, and technical bid evaluation support.
- Ensure all consultant deliverables are archived systematically in MDO's document management system with appropriate version control and traceability.
- Coordinate multi-discipline technical inputs across geology, mining, metallurgy, process engineering, infrastructure, utilities, and environmental disciplines for assigned study work streams, identifying and resolving integration gaps and inconsistencies.
- Coordinate metallurgical and process study inputs, tracking the status of testwork programmes, confirming that recovery assumptions are supported by testwork data, and liaising with the Technical Studies Lead to validate process design criteria.
- Interface with internal MDO functions — including Exploration, ESG, Finance, and Legal — to collect, consolidate, and integrate required study inputs at each phase milestone.
- Identify and document multi-discipline integration risks and gaps, escalating unresolved issues to the Technical Studies Lead with proposed…
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