Project Enigneer Lead - West Musgrave

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OZ Minerals - a Modern Mining Company

We are an Australian-based modern mining company with a focus on copper. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX100). We own the Prominent Hill copper-gold mine, are currently constructing the ~A$1b Carrapateena copper-gold operation and progressing the West Musgrave project (Australia’s largest undeveloped copper-nickel resource).

By 2022 we will be a copper-core, global modern mining company, delivering superior value with multiple operating assets and a diverse exploration and project pipeline.

Our growth strategy is focused on value creation.

We achieve success by creating value for all stakeholders, and the four key things that help us are having a copper core, multiple assets, customer focus and a lean business.

Each of these elements is underpinned by safety, capital discipline and our How we work together principles – our foundations for success.

The Role

We are looking for a great Project Engineer Lead to join our West Musgrave Project team. This is a 18 month fixed-term position reporting to the Project Director – West Musgrave and will be responsible for bringing the project engineering skills required to deliver the project through the Pre-Feasibility and Feasibility Study in support of OZ Minerals’ growth strategy.

As a member of the Project team, you will:

• Think and act differently, you will embrace and foster innovation by looking for ‘out of the box’ solutions to achieve technical success.
• Build trust by being open and transparent and are quick to admit mistakes.
• Be highly analytical, you will be able to synthesize data and distil information quickly to deliver reliable results.
• Deliver superior results through effective planning and agile deployment despite not always having the full picture.
• Apply project and technical engineering principles, tools and techniques to the West Musgrave Project to ensure on time and on budget delivery of all studies.
• Receive a competitive salary package

Delivering Superior Results:

• You will closely with the Project Director and Deputy Project Director and other team members to ensure project is delivered on time and budget.
• You will manage the activities of external consultants while maintaining an agile and flexible approach to the study.
• Updating/maintaining project budget and schedules and minutes, monitor critical path and implement time critical solutions.
• You have experience in remote location large infrastructure projects, focus on capital reduction strategies for non-process infrastructure.
• You develop and evaluate appropriate solutions to any other issues which may affect the project.

You will bring:

• A degree qualification in an Engineering discipline with relevant working experience.
• Previous experience in a base metals concentrator and open pit mine at a pre-feasibility and/or feasibility level.
• Experience in managing consultants, preparing scopes of work, reporting and preparing minutes, scheduling and budgeting, and infrastructure development.
• Multidisciplinary engineering knowledge across both process and non-process engineering disciplines.

You are:

• A great communicator, who develops strong, productive partnerships and is comfortable engaging/influencing key stakeholders at all levels.
• Someone who thinks outside of the box, challenges ‘how things have always been done’ and implements innovative idea.
• Able to work independently, apply initiative and develop solutions and recommendations in relation to project development.
• A strategic thinker and focus on effective outcomes.
• Collaborative, and can work in teams across levels and functions.

To Apply

If you are an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident and would like to apply to this position, please click the apply button to create your profile and upload your cover letter and CV.

Applications close 2 August 2018.

OZ Minerals is not accepting third party referrals from Recruitment Agencies.