Senior Minerals Consultant

Senior Minerals Consultant

AECOM is seeking a senior-level professional who combines mine engineering judgement, robust financial modelling capability, and practical cost estimating expertise to support our minerals consulting work. This role will lead and deliver due diligence cost reviews, mine closure and rehabilitation cost estimates, civil and infrastructure cost estimation inputs, and mine strategy and option evaluations. The successful candidate will be comfortable working across technical, commercial, and risk considerations and communicating findings clearly to clients and internal teams.

Responsibilities include:

• Leading or supporting technical and cost reviews for transactions, lender's/owner's engineer assignments, and investment decisions.
• Developing and/or reviewing mine closure cost estimates (concept through definitive level, as required).
• Preparing and/or reviewing CAPEX and OPEX estimates for mining and mineral processing.
• Contributing to mining strategy including mine development options, production scheduling concepts, equipment selection assumptions, and operating philosophies.
• Building and maintaining financial models (DCF, NPV/IRR, scenario and sensitivity analysis) linking technical drivers to economics.
• Applying strong internal QA/QC on models and estimates (traceability, version control, peer review, auditable assumptions).

Minimum qualifications include a BA/BS and 8 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.

Preferred qualifications include experience reviewing and adjusting cost estimates for mining projects to support due diligence reviews for investors and corporate development teams.