Project Engineer

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Project Overview:

Bechtel Mining and Metals offers engineering, procurement, and construction services for customers in the mining sector across multiple commodities including Iron Ore, Bauxite, Alumina, Aluminium, Copper, Gold, Coal, Lithium and Rare Earths markets.

The M&M global business unit also has offices in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide in Australia along with execution units in the United States, Peru, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, India and other project locations around the world.

The Project is a greenfield mining, process, material handling and ship loading project with a focus on sustaining production, minimise environmental impacts, strengthen long-term relationships with neighbouring communities and foster local economic development.

Job Summary:

In this role, you will lead a team and interpret, organize, execute, and coordinate the engineering technical aspects for complex projects. You will participate in project planning, proposal review, and will own the engineering elements of capital estimates. Your technical guidance and recommendations will ensure engineering aspects meet project requirements and remain within scope and budget.

This role will require regular travel to China.

"This position is designated as part-time telework per our global telework policy and may require at least three days of in-person attendance per week at the assigned office or project. Weekly in-person schedules will be determined by the individual and their supervisor, in consultation with functional or project leadership”

Major Responsibilities:

• Management of the scope, schedule, budget, priorities and the sequence of work for the project or assigned portion of a project including supervision of engineers of all disciplines in the Global Business Unit (GBU).
• Inputs to and owns the engineering elements of a project capital estimate proposals and execution quantities and budgets.
• Develops design and procurement schedules for approval.
• Ensures scope, design basis and objectives are defined, best practices/lessons learned reviewed, detailed work plans, schedules, budgets and procedures are established and executed, including:
  • Execution Plan
  • Contract Management Plan
  • Change Management Plan
  • Plan for addressing critical cross-functional work processes and systems, etc.
• Reviews and approves design documents, change orders, material requisitions and specifications for construction or procurement use.
• Supervises the preparation of, reviews and endorses bid analyses and recommendations for procurement of equipment material and services within Engineering’s scope of responsibility.
• Resolves field initiated questions on engineering.
• Prepares or directs the preparation of project studies, reports, forecasts, special engineering reports and plant data book.
• Ensures that Technical Risk Assessments are comprehensive and complete, safety practices and procedures are implemented, and engineering design and corresponding design documentation are in compliance with project Quality Assurance plan and procedures.
• Acts as the principal point of contact with the Engineering Manager and Contractor counter­parts.
• Responsible for the overall outcome of packages awarded as P.O.s and fully fledged LSTKs; including complete delivery of design, procurement, delivery, installation, commissioning and hand-over.
• Identifies quality requirements and ensures the proper processes are identified and implemented to achieve contractual quality commitments.

Education and Experience Requirements:

Requires bachelor's or master's degree (or international equivalent) and 13-15 years of relevant experience or 17-19 years of relevant work experience​

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Previous experience performing the above duties in the mining & metals industry
• Experience in delivering complex packages and leading multi-discipline teams on a major EPCM project
• Exemplary quality and safety record
• Ability to travel to supplier/vendor office (China / Southeast Asia) for a period of min 6 months
• Technically bilingual and conversant in English-Chinese 
• Previous experience using advance work packaging which ties in with modularisation, procurement, fabrication, transportation and installation.
• Knowledge of front-end activities including:
  • Feasibility
  • Studies and estimates
  • Value Improvement Practices
• Risk Analysis/Contingency Evaluation
• Estimate/Proposal Review Process
• Demonstrated knowledge of scheduling, purchasing, supplier quality and traffic functions.
• Demonstrated knowledge in general shop practices, engineering and drawing control, inventory control, shop scheduling, and supplier procurement activities
• Ability to communicate well with suppliers, projects and supervisors

Total Rewards/Benefits:

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Please note, to be successful in this role you must hold the right to work in Australian without employer sponsorship and there will be regular travel to China and technically bilingual and conversant in English-Chinese would be advantageous.

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