Manager Operational Readiness
Chile
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About the Role
The purpose of the Manager Operational Readiness reporting to the Program Director Commissioning &OR Minerals Americas, will lead the work designed to define the Operational Strategy and Operational Management Plan for OR Large Capital Projects Portfolio. The candidate will bring a demonstrated strong background in Business Readiness for Mega Projects, Operational Readiness activities, project studies, project delivery, and demonstrated leadership in strategic planning and execution of these activities for Large Capital Projects.
Main Functions:
- Leads and integrates the development and maintenance of the Operational Readiness and Operations Strategy, standards, processes, and plans for Large capital projects portfolio. Ensures and is accountable of the management of change for the complete scope of Ops Readiness and Transition to operations.
- Ensures the development and execution of a capital optimization program, identifying improvement initiatives to increase capital efficiency and productivity within the Operational Readiness scope of the Project.
- Provides Operational Readiness and Business Readiness expertise and coordinate resources deployed into the Project team for the development of Operational Readiness related deliverables, including but not limited to plans, processes, and procedures.
- Act as a single point of contact for the Project during early study phases for all Operational Readiness deliverables and inputs.
- Elaborates and manage the OR budgets and schedules for both study and execution phases.
- Responsible for ramp up and estabilization readiness from planning to execution from Identification phase through Execution.
- Manage risks and implements and monitors controls related to Operational Readiness scope and key value drivers.
- Coordinates the execution of business readiness methodologies, strategies and plans in accordance with program\project systems and standards.
- Support and conduct data-analytics on all aspects of operational readiness execution, optimization, and improvement projects.
- Lead value creation through application of continuous improvement techniques to program standards and procedures.
- Monitor the planned, actual, and forecast resource levels to support project execution.
About You
- Metallurgic, Chemical or Mechanical Civil Engineering Degree.
- Over 20 years of Plant process and operational experiences.
- Over 20 years of Process Mining experience in development concentrate and hydrometallurgy large & mega projects in different stage Identifications, Selection, Definitions and Executions.
- Copper and Molybdenum experience with Concentrators and Hydrometallurgy preferred.
- Experience with asset hierarchies’ establishment and maintenance planning systems, handling standard work instructions, processes and procedures development and training within green and brownfields plants preferred.
- Fluent in Spanish and intermedium to advanced English level.
Job location: Santiago
Modality of shift: 5x2
Exclusive requirements: Availability to travel to our operations
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