Manager Engineering

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About the role

Requirement to appoint a full time Manager Project Engineering to ensure provide leadership and direction to all the sub-function in Project Engineering in developing project/program engineering strategies, tender processes for services contracts, standards and frameworks that ensure the engineering process and design is optimised to enable safe, efficient and effective construction, commissioning and operation.   

Main Responsabilities:

Strongly aimed to a safety focus.  
Provide engineering expertise and management of engineering resources to support medium & large projects.  
Manages the project engineering resources and act as a single point of contact for the project or study manager for all project engineering deliverables and inputs.  
Works with the Study / Project manager to ensure project engineering development & execution activities achieve the integrated project scope, cost & schedule requirements and manages  disciplines engineering resources.  
Identifies and implements improvement initiatives, including programmatic opportunities for increased capital efficiency and productivity in the sub-function.   
Implements capability development plans to ensure appropriately skilled project engineering resources matched to underlying project scope.  
Drives adherence to all statutory and operational technical and engineering standards.  
Leads provisioning of Project Engineering expertise as input to value improvement practices.  
Leads performance management of Project Engineering performed by 3rd parties within the project.  
Leads, coaches and mentors team members to ensure delivery against performance targets.  
Drives the capture of lessons learnt from development & delivery of medium / large projects for incorporation into continuous improvement initiatives.  
Collaborates with Commissioning and Delivery to ensure that engineering is developed to able to support commissioning and execution methodologies, strategies and systems.  
Monitors project engineering progress in conjunction with the Study/ Project Manager so the schedule spillage can be monitored and the effects minimised.  
Collaborates with the Head of Engineering to create new technical and discipline engineering standards.  
Leads implementation of quality management plan to assure effective management of the project´s engineering scope of work.  

About You

Requirements:

Civil Engineer, any discipline, entitled.   
Minimum 15 years’ experience in mining projects and at least 5 years leading teams.  
Knowledge and experience with engineering contractors,experience in cost estimate, execution plans and scheduling  of small and medium mining projects.   
Competent in the use of relevant software such as MS Office.  
Experience in work with multidisciplinary engineering teams.  

Location: Santiago.

Mandatory Requirements: English written and spoken. 

Supporting a Diverse Workforce

The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.  

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