Main Responsibilities
Company is willing and able to apply for work permits and assist in expediting full landed immigrant status in Canada for employees and their family. I have listed the jobs and minimal requirements below and will provide further details and conduct interviews with those candidates who meet the criteria listed below. For all of the listed engineering positions the client is looking for - - Senior level engineers with an engineering degree in relevant discipline
- - Minimum of 10 - 20 years experience - this can be in consulting engineering design or in house design and operations side of large multi million dollar mining projects up to $1 billion in value.
- - The ideal candidates will have had management experience in mentoring junior and intermediate engineers, project planning, budgets, scheduling, delegating, client presentations and excellent decision making and communication skills.
Metallurgical Processing Engineer - 3 job openings Candidates must be able to perform engineering in all project phases of process design including:
- Feasibility studies, Conceptual design
- Front-end design, Detail engineering process design and plant commissioning Running process simulations
- Preparing heat and material balances
- Developing PFDs and P&IDs
- Preparing equipment data sheets, instrumentation data sheets, equipment lists, line lists
- Participating in a variety of design reviews
Technical knowledge in one or more of the following areas:
-heap leech
-SX/EW
-roasting
-POX
-"CIL/ICIP
Mineral Processing Engineer - 3 job openings Candidates must be able to perform engineering in all project phases of process design including:
- Feasibility studies
- Conceptual design
- Front-end design
- Detail engineering process design and plant commissioning
The MINERAL PROCESSING ENGINEER will focus on the Mining and Metals industry including:
- Concentrator and metallurgical plant design
- Associated ancillary facilities Technical knowledge in one or more of the following areas:
- Comminution
- Beneficiation including Flotation, Solid/Liquid Separation
- "CIL/ICIP Lead Mechanical Engineer - 4 openings Lead mechanical engineer for feasibility studies and/or EPCM mineral processing projects.
- Working with and supervising a team of mechanical engineers who will perform mechanical design of the plant including creating specifications for purchase of mineral processing equipment such as grinding mills, cyclones, flotation cells, thickeners, electrowinning cells, slurry pumps, lime slaking system, gold refinery, etc.; performing hydraulic/pneumatic calculations and piping stress analyses; creating piping and valves specifications for purchase.
- Perform all or some of the following: organize/plan jobs, create or review equipment specifications, write or review technical bid evaluations, review vendor drawings, attend vendor meetings, resolve vendor related issues, prepare/maintain schedules, develop/monitor estimates and manpower forecasts, assign work, and work with project/client/field material procurement and subcontractors.
- Travel, as required, to ensure the successful execution of project and/or department goals Experience with heavy industrial equipment in mineral processing plants such as copper concentrator, metal (e.g., gold, copper, nickel) refinery, solvent extraction and electrowinning, potash, pressure leach oxidation, bitumen extraction and tailing.
- Familiar with industrial mechanical codes including ASME (e.g., B31.3, BPVC sect.I), API 650, ASTM Lead Electrical/Control Systems Engineer - 3 openings Lead electrical Engineer for feasibility studies and/or EPCM projects
- Working and supervising a team designing plant electrical infrastructure like MV Switchgear, LV Switchgear and motor controllers, mining equipment such as crushers, conveyors (conveyor drives), transformers, etc.
- Organize/plan jobs, write/review specifications, review/procure electrical equipment, prepare/maintain schedules, develop/monitor capital estimates and manpower forecasts
- Work with client and project personnel
- Assign work to and monitor junior engineers and designers Experience in mineral processing, electrical distribution and motor control in mining operations
- Experience leading the electrical portion of projects
- Supervisory/managerial experience Gold, or copper concentrator experience is an asset
- Experience in large industrial electrical distribution systems is essential
- Experience in surface and/or underground mines is an asset Project Manager, Mining & Metals - 2 openings Plan, organize and direct all project activities including design, procurement, scheduling, estimating, cost control, construction, start-up and commissioning
- Organizing resources and establishing priorities with multi-national projects in the metals & mining industry
- Develop, establish and manage the scope, schedule, budget and implementation plan
- Establish project procedures in accordance with quality systems & guidelines and prepare the project execution plan
- Implement project quality programs & interface with internal and external clients
- Monitor adherence to schedule and budget, initiate and implement corrective action if required
- Provide timely and accurate project information and status updates to internal management and to clients
- Review project staffing requirements with other project managers and coordinate staffing for each discipline
- Coordinate design efforts with vendors and licensor's to assure proper and complete integration
- Manage suppliers, subcontractors and resolve budget, schedule and quality issues
- Management responsibility in respect to hiring, appraisal and training of staff as required
- Ensure that Health, Safety, Environmental and Security management issues are properly addressed according to company standards and quality standards The successful candidate will ideally have minimum 15 years experience with 5 years experience in management roles in delivering successful projects in mining/metals/heavy industrial sector Materials Handling Engineer - Senior - 3 openings Perform and check calculations and design. - Write and review specifications.
- Prepare and maintain schedules, develop and monitor estimates and manpower forecasts
- Assist, as required, in the development of department standards and procedures
•Perform squad check of vendor data and drawings from other disciplines Experience in heavy industry (preferably mining), and 10 years plus experience with crushing and conveying equipment For the following roles for Contract Administrators, Estimators, Project Controls and Procurement the candidates must have - - Relevant university qualifications i.e. Finance, Contract Law, Business, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Procurement, Cost Engineering
- - 5 - 20 years relevant experience in EPC/EPCM preferably on large mining projects - the more senior/lead/manager roles require minimum 10 - 15 years experience
- - Exception computer skills
- - Engineering qualification/designation would be advantageous
Project Controls Lead -10 positions Supervising the Project Control team effort in maintaining schedules, cost controls, forecasting and in all level of reporting. - Initiating analysis of schedule slippages and cost variances. Recommend mitigation for adverse variances.
- Coordinating the team's development of all deliverables
- Ensuring Project Controls activities are in accordance with set project procedures., including preparation of schedules, cost reports, cash flow and variance analysis.
- Leading the development of all reports set forth in the client business requirements and corporate reporting procedures.
- Supporting the Change Management System for both schedule and cost and ensure this function is in line with corporate and project procedures.
- Liaising with the client on all Project Controls dealings and attend weekly/monthly project coordination meetings.
- Leading, coaching and communicating with a team of Estimators, Planner & Schedulers and Cost Engineers.
•Budgetary Responsibilities: Highlight adverse schedule and cost variances for corrective actions Contract Administrator - Senior - 6 positions Specific contract templates.
-Knowledgeable on all aspects of construction contracts formation, including assisting in initiating and developing individual contracting strategies, pre-qualification of bidders and development of bidder lists, development of contract RFP documents.
-Lead all bid cycle activities, including chairing RFP explanation meetings and bid clarification meetings, manage all responses to bidder queries, develop commercial bid evaluations and coordinate technical evaluations with engineering.
-Develop proposal evaluations and award recommendations, submit award recommendations to project team and/or client, develop final contract.
-Perform contract management post-award activities including monitoring Subcontractor performance and progress against critical path and contractor schedules; evaluate and coordinate approval of contractor progress payment applications.
-Monitor contract compliance, review of schedule adherence, lead all contract change management activities (site instructions, drawing transmittals), claims avoidance.
-Investigate and resolve invoicing issues and closeout of subcontracts.
-Ensure that contract administration files are maintained in a clear auditable manner. Contracts Manager - 2 positions The selected candidate will lead, manage and be an integral member of the contract management team for large Infrastructure or Mining project(s) located in Canada. Manage a staff of contract personnel and coordinate with sales, engineering, project manager, project controls, site management as well as the client to ensure proper contracting effort in accordance with Company practices and policies. Provide planning, preparation and issuance of project contract documents in accordance with the contract project execution plan and procedures.
- Develop staffing plans, effort hour estimates and execution plans for the Contract Management function for the project.
- Develop Contracting plans and procedures with the support of other disciplines and functions for implementation by the project
- Interface with internal and external management with respect to project contracting activities.
- Participate and supervise others in project set up and procedure development
- Guide efforts for developing contractor resource surveys and develop Master Bidder List for the project
- Supervise a team of people in performing all contract pre-award activities, contractor selection, interface with engineering, project and client representatives to support preparation of RFP, bid evaluation and negotiations up to award and contract execution
- Perform all facets of post award contract management.
- Organize and document communications and meetings with contractors.
- Administer changes to contracts, including claims resolution.
- Be pro-active with contractors to ensure contract compliance generation of progress reports, schedules, daily and other status reports, invoices and supporting documents in a timely manner.
- Generate progress, schedule, daily and other Project Weekly and Monthly status reports in a timely manner
- Supervise close out of contracts, finalize outstanding contract issues, final invoices and contractor performance evaluations.
- Become thoroughly knowledgeable regarding the company Contract Management Functional Reference System
- The selected candidate should have experience implementing and managing the lead contracts function on large EPC and EPCM projects related to Mining, Refinery and/or Industrial projects. Estimator - Intermediate/Senior 10 positions Develop valid project coding structures and work packages for the scope of work
·Design or assist in the design of a Work Breakdown Structure that is suitable for capturing all cost components
·Oversee the development of Discipline Material Take-Offs, Material Pricing and Labour Effort-hour Units for estimates and change orders.
·Coordinate information exchange between the Engineering, Purchasing and Construction groups.
·Participate in the development of the Project Execution Plan, estimate basis and procedures.
·Develop and maintain project-level and control-level estimating schedules.
·Provide proposal and study support.
·Maintain established Specialty Estimating Systems, Procedures and Manuals.
·Work with limited direction on estimating functions that provide high-quality estimates to upper-level estimators in a timely manner and where the information is reconcilable to source data Candidates with experience working for an EPCM organization in the mining, mineral processing or related heavy industries will be preferred.
·The Estimating Lead must have capable supervisory skills, the ability to prioritize multiple work tasks and the ability to work under strict deadlines.
·Familiarity with SBU estimating systems is advantageous Material Management - Procurement - Senior Manager 3 positions As a Procurement Manager, you will be responsible for: - Managing multi-discipline material management functions and activities on capital projects
- Procurement, expediting, supplier quality surveillance, material planning and logistics of equipment and bulk construction materials on a project, including: ball mills, crushing equipment, conveyors and hardware, flotation circuits, SX/EW circuits, autoclaves, shop tanks, structural steel and engineered buildings, electrical and instrumentation equipment, mechanical equipment, piping and multidiscipline bulk materials
- Planning, organizing and directing the activities of buyers, expeditors, inspectors, and technical support staff, in the procurement of necessary materials, equipment and services, in accordance with the project's standards, specifications and construction schedules
- Managing the procurement work process and reporting the status of purchased material and equipment from the time of purchase through receipt at the project site
- Preparation of bid documents, requests for proposals, quotations, and soliciting of prices from bidders for materials/equipment in accordance with specifications, drawings, commercial terms and conditions
- Reviewing prices submitted by suppliers, supervising preparation of bid comparison and letters of recommendation for management's approval to purchase
- Managing purchase orders, awarded packages and post-award administration
- Providing general and direct supervision to the materials management staff on the project and fostering a learning environment
- Workforce forecasting, budget preparation, completion of performance appraisals, and proposal input and development
- Invoice processing and completing progress reports
- Acting as liaison with the client on all procurement functions
- Reviewing field requisitions to determine the best sources of supply. Develop additional sources of supply of difficult or critical items
- Complying to Company's code of ethics and purchasing code of conduct, and ensuring compliance by materials management staff
- Performing critical supplier negotiations
•Maintaining responsibility for project procurement and reporting to the project manager |
