Senior Project Engineer

Senior Project Engineer / Project Area Lead

Introduction

Brunel is currently hiring a Senior Project Engineer / Project Area Lead on behalf of a major mining client. This contract position will be based in the EPCM consultant's engineering office in Vancouver, BC, with periodic travel to a remote project site in Arizona.

In this role, you will support the Owner's Engineering Manager (EM) and project team in overseeing the EPCM consultant engaged in the development of a new multi-billion-dollar copper concentrator project. The position spans the Basic Engineering (BE) and Detailed Engineering (DE) phases and includes engineering support for field execution.

Under the general direction of the Owner's Engineering Manager, you will provide technical expertise, coordination, and leadership to the primary EPCM consultant, as well as to other consultants and vendors, helping ensure alignment, quality, and progress across assigned project area(s).

Responsibilities

• Reviews, investigates, and develops appropriate recommendations to EPCM team regarding engineering progress.
• Serves as an Area Lead on a wide range of small to medium engineering / construction, work packages within the main project scope.
• Prepares scopes, evaluates proposals and administers awarded contracts with vendors for engineering services, field work and equipment.
• Coordinates cooperation, and information flow between vendors, particularly at scope battery limits.
• Coordinates Owner's disciplines engineers on technical review/supervision of the EPCM and other contractors.
• Collaborates and provides guidance to the site management team on applicable processes, practices and engineering information.
• May contribute to site strategic planning and budgeting efforts for designated engineering areas.
• Includes the Owner's stake holders in the sharing information about the project, makes sure that their comments are accounted in the design by the EPCM and other vendors.
• Provides related information about the project to the Owner's stake holders. May represent the project on company's steering meetings.
• Performs other duties as required.

Job Scope

• Nature of work: Works on moderately complex issues, implements solutions through individual effort, but may delegate more routine tasks to others.
• Level of interaction: Collaborates mostly with peers in the same functional area and has moderate external interaction. Receives instructions from the project EM.
• Autonomy/decision making: Works under supervision under EM, but has some latitude to set objectives, priorities and timelines impacting the individual assigned area of work as the Area Lead.
• Budgetary responsibility: Assists with budget preparation and monitoring.
• Managerial responsibility: may manage Owner's discipline engineers dedicated to the assigned areas of the project. Manages EPCM and other consultants/vendors.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering (process, mechanical, electrical, structural, civil) and 10 (ten) to 12 (twelve) years heavy industrial engineering experience, mining strongly preferred, including 2 (two) to 3 (three) years engineering management experience.
• Experience in EPCM office environment; knowledge of principles and large industrial/mining project engineering execution and management.
• Demonstrate technical competence in his/her discipline, knowledge of operation of copper concentrator.
• Experience working in the Owner's team in the EPCM consultant office will be considered as an asset.
• Experience with metal mining operations and consulting, with regards to process, machinery, piping, structural, civil, electrical and instrumentation.
• Skilled in related engineering software (MS Office, AutoCAD, Google Earth, Navis Works, Aconex) scheduling (MS Project).

Language Skills, Certifications and/or Training

• Fluency in English.
• Broad knowledge of the principles and practices of engineering.
• Ability to research and analyze information of considerable difficulty and draw valid conclusions.
• Skill in effective communication, both verbal and written, including the ability to actively listen and to adapt behavior and communication style based upon the audience.
• Ability to develop and maintain awareness of occupational hazards and safety precautions.
• Skill in following safety practices, and recognizing, controlling and/or eliminating hazards. Ability to build trust and credibility with employees/peers and establish common goals and expectations.
• Strong analytical skills.