Industrial Infrastructure, Pre-FEED, CAPEX and Project Controls Specialist - Remote

Industrial Infrastructure, Pre-FEED, CAPEX and Project Controls Specialist

Opportunity track:
SEA / GLOBAL / MENA-EE
Engagement: Contingent individual consultant; engagement may be direct or through an eligible U.S. consulting firm
Location: Remote — United States, with possible international travel
Primary promotion location: Houston, Texas 77002
Anticipated consulting fee: $150–$285 per hour, or a negotiated fixed price by work package

Axyde is building a senior expert bench for anticipated U.S. government-funded project-scoping assignments involving mining, mineral processing, energy, utilities, transportation, digital facilities, and other industrial infrastructure across the Indo-Pacific, Africa and the Middle East, Europe and Eurasia, Latin America, and other global markets.

The selected specialist will help Axyde determine whether proposed facilities have a credible technical basis, an implementable execution strategy, commercially reasonable cost and schedule assumptions, and an appropriately designed next-stage feasibility study, technical-assistance assignment, pilot, pre-FEED, or FEED effort. Assignments may begin with incomplete data and require rapid, independent, and defensible conclusions.

Axyde welcomes specialists whose principal strength is engineering definition, cost estimating, scheduling, constructability, procurement, or project controls. Applicants are not expected to be equally expert in every discipline listed below.

• Develop or review project design bases, owner requirements, facility concepts, plot plans, process and utility interfaces, and preliminary engineering assumptions.
• Evaluate site development, civil, structural, geotechnical, buildings, water, power, fuel, communications, transportation, logistics, waste, and other supporting infrastructure.
• Assess project definition and recommend proportionate concept-engineering, FEL, pre-FEED, FEED, feasibility, pilot, owner-engineering, or technical-assistance tasks.
• Develop or review technical scopes, required qualifications, deliverables, staffing plans, work breakdown structures, schedules, and budgets for subsequent studies or project-preparation assignments.
• Develop or test preliminary CAPEX and OPEX assumptions, estimate classifications, quantity and unit-rate bases, allowances, contingencies, escalation, foreign exchange, taxes, duties, and owner-cost assumptions.
• Assess integrated schedules, critical and near-critical paths, permitting dependencies, long-lead equipment, procurement sequencing, construction windows, commissioning, startup, and ramp-up assumptions.
• Evaluate execution strategies, packaging, contracting approaches, EPC/EPCM interfaces, modularization, prefabrication, local-content assumptions, constructability, and supply-chain risks.
• Review cost and schedule risk analyses, change-control methods, progress-measurement approaches, reporting systems, and decision-gate criteria.
• Evaluate interfaces among mines, processing plants, generation and grid assets, water systems, pipelines, roads, rail, ports, airports, data centers, and other enabling infrastructure.
• Identify material engineering and project-delivery information gaps and recommend practical validation, survey, testing, design, and diligence activities.
• Participate in sponsor interviews, technical-diligence calls, and occasional site visits involving project sponsors, host-country stakeholders, financiers, engineering firms, contractors, and prospective U.S. suppliers.
• Contribute to concept consultations, initial assessments, project reports, presentations, sector deep dives, and technical-economic recommendations.
• Clearly state estimate maturity, accuracy limitations, assumptions, exclusions, qualifications,…