Manager Civil Engineering

Based in Vicuña’s Vancouver office, reporting to the Director, Project Engineering, the incumbent will lead the civil engineering function for the Owners team across all phases of the project’s development. As the Manager, Civil Engineering, you will be responsible for ensuring the large and complex civil structures required by the project are safe, technically sound and cost effective. Additionally, a key area of responsibility will be ensuring both the design and constructability of these facilities is optimised given the seismic conditions present in the region and significant cut/fill balances.

To fulfill these responsibilities, you will leverage significant prior experience in either the design and construction of large scale, complex mining, minerals processing or infrastructure projects. Leveraging this experience, you will provide necessary expertise, analysis and advice into project decision making and leadership processes.

In addition to providing technical advice and leadership, this position provides a governance and assurance function over the engineering program to ensure the project achieves its safety, quality, cost, and schedule objectives. The incumbent will play a pivotal role in stewarding design maturity, value improvement, and technical risk management across all phases of the project.

• Lead the Owner’s civil engineering function to ensure safe, cost-effective, and technically sound project outcomes.
• Ensure constructability considerations are fully embedded within the project design development.
• Facilitate inter discipline workflows and knowledge sharing to ensure all aspects of the facility are fully integrated.
• Cascade established engineering governance frameworks, standards, and assurance processes.
• Implement safety in design processes as it relates to the function.
• Lead identification and mitigation of civil engineering risks and opportunities.
• Oversee the work of the EPCM to ensure scope delivery is fully integrated and compliant with project requirements.
• Champion value engineering and design optimization initiatives to drive schedule and cost improvements.
• Review and/or develop engineering scopes of work for engineering contractors, subcontractors and related entities within the Project.
• Evaluate technical portions of bid submittals for provision of construction works.
• Provides guidance and counsel to the Project and site management teams on applicable processes, practices, and existing/proposed local, state and federal regulations and design standards.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a diverse team, fostering technical excellence and a strong safety culture.

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or related field.
• Minimum 15 years of related professional engineering experience.
• Design and/or construction of large, complex civil structures in seismically active regions.
• Design and/or construction of large bulk earthworks programs requiring optimisation of cut/fill balances.
• Familiarity with civil structures and facilities typically required in Greenfields mining developments including roads, embankments, surface water management, well fields, overland piping, underground services and dams.
• Quarry development and aggregate production.
• Registration or eligibility for registration, with the Engineers and Geoscientists BC desirable.
• Proven track record of delivering large-scale projects, ideally in challenging international or remote environments.
• Strong understanding of mining regulations, environmental compliance, and safety standards.
• Proven ability to lead through complexity, ambiguity, and cross-cultural environments.
• Exceptional leadership and team-building skills and is able to motivate, lead and drive high performance and execution.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills including verbal and written presentations ranging from technical team members to executives and boards.
• Can effectively influence and manage relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to achieve required outcomes.
• Ability to work in a diverse and multicultural environment.
• Fluency in English;
  Spanish language proficiency (intermediate or higher) strongly preferred.
• Ability to pass high altitude medical in order to travel to site.