Senior Project Engineer KUSPE130426

Job Type: 18 month contract, expected to work Full-Time hours

• Review consultant's engineering designs, reports, and drawings to ensure compliance with project technical specifications and owner's standards
• Develop an integrated technical oversight plan incorporating all stakeholders and technical functions, with specific emphasis on integration with project controls
• Establish required quality control elements covering the full project lifecycle from concept through to commissioning
• Monitor technical deliverables, reporting progress, variance to plan, root causes and corrective actions
• Monitor the greater environment to identify potential technical and regulatory risks to the project
• Manage engineering consultants, ensuring contract compliance, performance standards, and on time delivery

• Ensure adhere to all safety, health and environmental practices and requirements

• Escalate all unsafe practices or risks to the direct supervisor/manager
• Support good housekeeping in the department and on site to ensure compliance
• Participating in VFLs, Risk Assessments and close out of Safety Actions
• Ensure consultant compliance with Anglo American SHE standards and requirements

• Review and approve consultant's engineering designs, reports and drawings against technical specifications and owner's standards
• Conduct technical due diligence on feasibility study deliverables, ensuring accuracy, reliability and comprehensive risk assessment
• Implement and enforce quality assurance protocols for all engineering deliverables produced by consultants
• Ensuring alignment with Group Engineering Standards for each project phase
• Conduct constructability and operability reviews with input from operational teams to ensure designs are practical and cost effective
• Review and ensure delineation of technical responsibilities to ensure owner's interests are sufficiently protected

• Ensure actively monitor and manage the engineering consultant's scope of work to prevent scope creep
• Ensure assistance with the development and validation of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Ensure integrity of data between Scope, WBS, Schedule and technical deliverables
• Ensure initiate formal change process where applicable and maintain oversight of technical change control
• Review and approve technical change requests from consultants, assessing impact on project scope, cost and schedule
• Identify technical variance and analysis of root causes
• Review options to remedy causes and/or recover schedule impacts

• Ensure assist in the selection of engineering consultants and managing contracts to ensure terms are met
• Ensure regularly track consultant's progress, performance and compliance with project schedule and budget
• Ensure address any deviations or underperformance promptly through formal performance management processes
• Ensure serve as primary point of contact for consultants, providing clarification on owner requirements and strategic direction
• Review and approve invoices from engineering consultants based on progress achieved and contract terms
• Support development of commercial contracts to understand risks to technical delivery and treatment strategies
• Ensure quality assured consultant data collection and deliverable production processes

• Ensure seamless integration between engineering consultants and other parts of the owner's team (geology, project controls, operational readiness, environmental)
• Facilitate exchange of information and data between owner's organization and consultants
• Liaise frequently with Project Controls team to understand schedule conflicts, resource constraints and time constraints
• Coordinate with procurement and contracts teams on technical specifications and requirements
• Establish required tools and techniques

• Bachelor's degree in Mining Engineering, Civil Engineering or related engineering discipline
• Professional registration (Pr.Eng) with ECSA or eligibility for registration
• Proven experience in feasibility studies and concept development phases

• Minimum 10 years of experience in mining project development and engineering
• Ability to review and critique complex engineering designs and technical drawings
• Strong understanding of engineering principles across multiple disciplines (civil, mechanical, electrical, mining)
• Ability to make sound technical decisions based on available information and analysis
• Capability to deliver precise and engaging technical presentations to various audiences
• Strong research abilities to gather and analyse technical data effectively
• Proficiency in analysing and interpreting complex technical information and data
• Understanding of constructability and operability principles
• Ability to identify patterns and connections between technical information and project risks
• Able to judge situations from a business perspective and use business sense to identify and respond to opportunities
• Able to scan the local and broader environment to gather diverse information potentially relevant to achieving project objectives
• Skilled in working effectively in different contexts, demonstrated by the capacity to amend one's approach to be in line with evolving circumstances and priorities
• Professional technical report writing skills (minimum requirement that must be demonstrated)
• Experience with engineering software and project management tools
• Social Processing Skills
• Clear and impactful communicator, networker, and influencer