Canada Mining Practice Lead

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We believe industry drives progress. As part of our Industrial sector, you’ll help shape efficient, advanced infrastructure and environmental stewardship. We partner with clients across industries to responsibly optimize processes, modernize facilities and solve complex challenges. Our work spans the full project life cycle, from up-front evaluation and planning studies through design and into construction monitoring and operations. You can help clients push boundaries and meet evolving industrial demands while supporting resilient infrastructure and responsible growth. This isn’t just a job, it’s a chance to engineer smarter solutions, drive industrial innovation and make a lasting impact.

HDR’s Mining clients have significant technical support needs for their greenfield and brownfield projects related to permitting, design and operations. To support this growth, HDR is seeking a Canada Mining Practice Lead who is a Winner/Doer with a key focus on Technical Leadership/ Project Management/Program Building/ Staff Growth and Business Development. 

A focus of the role will be project management, technical support, and program building. The role requires technical leadership to guide project teams as to the approach, requirements, and scope to solve client challenges and leading the projects to successful completion of the work, monitoring and communicating the status of their projects with HDR operations leadership, and networking internal to HDR to identify and on-board the right multi-disciplinary local and remote team members to support the pursuits and projects. This will also expand the program service offerings within Canada through local area, national and US based teams, as well as training and mentoring new(er) to mining team members.

Within business development, this role requires client interaction (awareness of client challenges and potential HDR all team opportunities, technical value development and positioning during proposals, through project completion) and strong verbal and written communication skills for interactions with clients, as well as internal staff such as project team members, business development leadership, marketing staff, and operations leadership. The ideal candidate will have strong relationships and significant experience winning and executing projects for mining companies in hard and soft rock metals and minerals, and industrial minerals. Additionally, this role would include recruiting of personnel to continue to grow the Mining Practice in Canada, inclusive of expanding our service offerings/capabilities.

Other responsibilities include serving as an active member of relevant local and regional organizations, presenting at industry events, mentoring project teams and collaboratively developing proposals within the region.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mining engineering, civil engineering, chemical engineering, or related discipline. PEng in a minimum of one province. Multiple provinces preferred.
• A minimum of 10 years related industry experience.
• A minimum of 5 years mining project management experience.
• Experience in managing mining projects to a successful conclusion (budget, schedule, safety, quality).
• Familiarity with multiple commodities, soft and hard-rock mining operations, studies, design, and execution from exploration to closure and reclamation, greenfields and brownfields.  
• Must be able to successfully lead a team on projects.
• Good planning, communication, and mentoring skills.
• Excellent competence in Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and Project.
• Open pit and underground mine experience.
• Hard rock, soft rock and industrial minerals consulting and operations experience.
• Committee, panel and/presentation experience with SME, PDAC, CIM and/or MAC.
• Experience working for a mine operating company.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Planning, Sciences, Business Administration, or a closely related field
• Program management experience consistent with one of the following requirements: 
• A minimum of three (3) years of program management experience in a deputy role to the Program Manager for the delivery of one or more programs, with a cumulative capital value of $200 million or more, or;
• A minimum of five (5) years of program management experience as a Project Manager or Project Controls Manager for the delivery of one or more programs, each with a capital value of $200 million or more, or; 
• A minimum of ten (10) years of project management experience as a Project Manager directing a multi-disciplinary team for the delivery of at least two (2) projects, each with a capital value of $50 million or more
• Strong leadership skills with experience building a cohesive team culture and managing team members in various locations.
• Excellent communication skills. Comfortable presenting to client executives and in front of a large audience in a public setting
• Management experience with the implementation of projects or programs using alternative and collaborative delivery methods, including design-build (DB), progressive design-build (PDB), and/or construction management at-risk (CMAR)
• Familiar with the various tools used to manage large programs - PMIS, CMIS, scheduling, cost control, document management, risk management, asset management, dashboard analytics, etc.
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must

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