Study Manager

Description

• Serve as a technical peer reviewer or Qualified Person in the execution of the technical components of the work. Answer questions and give daily guidance and communications to the project team, thus developing the team’s technical competence.
• Assist the client with crafting the story of their studies, including engagement with other client stakeholders to present the progress and/or outcomes.
• Understand the client’s objectives and study definition guidelines.
• Implement study management processes and procedures, including risk and value management, option identification/evaluation/selection, and assurance activities as required.
• Drive the scope definition and execution planning for each study, working with a multi-disciplinary team to translate the client’s objectives and study definition guidelines into an actionable, controllable scope of work and plan of execution.
• Deliver integrated studies on time and within budget, while ensuring alignment between engineering, estimating, scheduling and risk from Order-of-Magnitude / Preliminary Economic Assessments through to Definitive Feasibility Studies.

Requirements

• Influential leader, capable of weighing contradicting priorities and securing buy-in on compromise.
• Understand and implement various stage gate study standard processes.
• Risk management, commercial awareness, business analysis & reporting, and operational/business knowledge.
• Proven history of managing ambiguity and maintaining team progress during periods of significant change.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or a related field from an accredited university is preferred.
• An ability to effectively liaise with external and internal stakeholders from multiple cultures.
• Professional Engineering license (or the ability to obtain a license) is preferred.
• An aptitude for steering multi-disciplinary teams towards a common objective.
• High degree of leadership, planning, teamwork, decision-making, judgment, and problem-solving skills.
• Direct study experience in the mining and or heavy industry sectors is advantageous.
• A Master of Business Administration degree, while not necessary, is viewed as an asset.
• Proven Mining Study or Project leadership experience with high emotional intelligence.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant study/project and/or program management experience.
• Comfort in managing a complex environment with a virtual team based around the world.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance