Senior Project Engineer

The Senior Project Engineer will support the Project Management team to drive key initiatives, oversee aspects of project execution and help with coordination across departments.

• Support the Phase Director with technical leadership across multi-discipline interfaces (process, mining, infrastructure, TSF, water, logistics, power).
• Drive integration across engineering, project controls, cost, schedule, risk, and execution strategy to ensure “one plan / one basis.”
• Prepare concise decision briefs, recommendation memos, and steering materials (trade-offs, implications, risks, next steps).
• Coordinate priority deliverables and remove roadblocks across discipline leads and the EPCM.

• Lead management of cross-discipline interfaces (process, utilities, water, TSF, logistics, infrastructure) ensuring gaps and overlaps are identified and closed.
• Maintain a strong “basis of design / basis of estimate” discipline: ensure assumptions are current, documented, and consistently applied.
• Support stage-gate readiness by coordinating required deliverables, review cycles, and evidence of maturity against gate criteria.
• Ensure project work aligns with governance requirements, internal standards, and assurance expectations (IPR/peer review readiness).

• Partner with Project Controls to validate schedule logic, critical path drivers, and milestone integrity; support recovery planning when required.
• Support cost and estimate management by validating technical inputs, quantities, productivity assumptions, and indirect logic.
• Lead/participate in change control: assess impacts, develop recommendations, and ensure decisions are recorded and communicated.
• Drive risk and opportunity identification with discipline leads and ensure practical mitigation actions are implemented.

• Support oversight of EPCM and key contractors: clarify scope boundaries, ensure deliverables meet quality expectations, and track action closure.
• Participate in contract strategy development and ensure technical/commercial alignment (scope clarity, interfaces, deliverables, acceptance criteria).
• Promote safe, quality-driven execution through consistent expectations and field/constructability engagement.
• Take full ownership of the OPEX model (structure, assumptions, version control, governance) and maintain a clear basis of estimate.
• Develop and maintain OPEX inputs by area: mining, processing, utilities (power/fuel), water systems, camp/services, logistics, maintenance, G&A, sustaining capital interface.
• Coordinate OPEX assumptions with Engineering, Operations/Readiness, Supply Chain, and Finance (rates, consumption factors, staffing, maintenance strategies).
• Assist in the development of sensitivities and scenario cases (throughput, recovery, mining sequence, altitude factors, reagent/fuel/power pricing, water strategy, logistics routes).
• Ensure alignment between OPEX model outputs and estimate classifications, design maturity, and stage-gate requirements.

• Provide structured, auditable inputs from the OPEX model into the financial model (cash flow timing, ramp-up curves, unit costs, escalation indices, sustaining costs).
• Translate technical changes (scope, execution strategy, design basis) into financial impacts and clearly explain drivers of variance.
• Support economics case development: base case vs. alternatives, optimization opportunities, value engineering options, and trade studies tied to NPV/IRR outcomes.

• Undergraduate degree in engineering, mining, process, electrical or mechanical preferred.
• 10 to 15 years of project management experience, preferably in the mining industry.
• Strong understanding of mining projects, financial modelling, permitting, and project execution.
• Strong organization and decision‑making skills.
• Proficient in MS Office Suite.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.