Study Manager

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

We are currently seeking a Study Manager to join our Mining team in the Southwest USA, based out of one of our offices in Chandler, AZ or Tucson, AZ. The Study Manager is the principal liaison between Stantec and the client during the planning and execution of mining studies. The successful candidate will drive the identification, evaluation, selection, and/or optimization for a variety of mining projects as a key service offering for our diverse client base.

You will have the opportunity to successfully steer complex studies through our various clients’ stage gate processes, developing and applying robust study management techniques, while leading a multi-disciplinary team across multiple offices.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Understand the client’s objectives and study definition guidelines.

• Drive the scope definition and execution planning for each study, working with a multi-disciplinary team to translate the client’s objectives and study definition guidelines into an actionable, controllable scope of work and plan of execution.

• Implement study management processes and procedures, including risk and value management, option identification/evaluation/selection, and assurance activities as required.

• Deliver integrated studies on time and within budget, while ensuring alignment between engineering, estimating, scheduling and risk from Order-of-Magnitude / Preliminary Economic Assessments through to Definitive Feasibility Studies.

• Serve as a technical peer reviewer or Qualified Person in the execution of the technical components of the work. Answer questions and give daily guidance and communications to the project team, thus developing the team’s technical competence.

• Assist the client with crafting the story of their studies, including engagement with other client stakeholders to present the progress and/or outcomes.

• Understand and implement various stage gate study standard processes.

• Proven Mining Study or Project leadership experience with high emotional intelligence.

• Influential leader, capable of weighing contradicting priorities and securing buy-in on compromise.

• Risk management, commercial awareness, business analysis & reporting, and operational/business knowledge.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• An ability to effectively liaise with external and internal stakeholders from multiple cultures.

• Comfort in managing a complex environment with a virtual team based around the world.

• High degree of leadership, planning, teamwork, decision-making, judgment, and problem-solving skills.

• An aptitude for steering multi-disciplinary teams towards a common objective.

• Proven history of managing ambiguity and maintaining team progress during periods of significant change.

• Assessor of value and risk.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or a related field from an accredited university is preferred.

• Professional Engineering license (or the ability to obtain a license) is preferred.

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant study/project and/or program management experience.

• Direct study experience in the mining and or heavy industry sectors is advantageous.

• A Master of Business Administration degree, while not necessary, is viewed as an asset.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

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