Senior Consultant, Mining and Metals

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To strengthen our growing Mining & metals focus, we currently have a career opportunity for a Senior Consultant to join our Supply Chain Consulting team. We are seeking a true team player with a strong work ethic, experience in mining operations and either and established consulting skillset or a demonstrable ambition to develop these. This individual will focus on assisting clients in areas such as operations transformations, asset management transformations, and supply chain transformations, among other areas as required to meet operational goals.

Through formal and on the job training, and experience of working with a range of global organizations, we’ll help you achieve your potential. If you are looking for a cutting-edge environment, providing strategic advice in the areas of operations, fixed- and mobile-maintenance and the overall value chain, this just might be the role you’ve been searching for.

As a Senior Consultant, you'll contribute to Supply Chain & Operations client engagements and internal projects with a bias to Mining & metals industry projects. An important part of your role will be to actively establish, maintain and strengthen internal and external relationships. You'll also identify potential business opportunities for EY within existing engagements, and elevate these as appropriate. You’ll work in a team with a specific workstream focus to deliver and exceed expectations.

Similarly, you'll anticipate and identify risks within engagements and raise any issues with senior members of the team. In line with EY’s commitment to quality, you'll confirm that work is of high quality and is reviewed by the next-level reviewer. As an influential member of the team, you'll help to create a positive learning culture, coach and counsel junior team members and help them to develop.

• Participate in client engagements that transform operations through a cross-disciplinary approach
• Assist with the review/assessment and improvement of operations, maintenance and supply chain functions
• Deliver high-quality work products within expected time frames and on budget
• Provide insight by using a robust set of data analytics
• Develop and maintain working relationships with client personnel at appropriate levels
• Work effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication, and updating senior team members on progress
• Excellent communications skills including verbal, written, and presentation skills
• Operations and/or maintenance experience ideally including optimization or debottlenecking
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• An ability to engage with a wide variety of stakeholders and coach individuals in best practices

• Outstanding academic record including a bachelor's degree (with an emphasis on Engineering, Business, Supply Chain or Logistics), a graduate degree is preferred
• Experience with managing and/or improving operations, maintenance or supply chain performance in a mining environment (gold, base metals, PGMs etc) through focused interventions
• Expertise in one, or more, operations excellence transformations, operating system design and implementation, operations and/or maintenance management, process debottlenecking, Lean/Six-Sigma, asset management/maintenance optimization, and operations cost reduction
• A willingness to travel to meet client needs (when it is safe). The SC&O practice is national and travel may be required

• Contribute to the growth and development of the Consulting practice and the Mining & metals focus
• Maintain an educational program to continually develop technical capabilities and professional knowledge
• Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures
• Remain current on new developments in consulting services capabilities and industry knowledge
• Familiarity with the enablement…