Field Report & Progress Engineer

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Ujina Growth Project:

The mining area is located 185 km southeast of Iquique, at 4,400 meters above sea level, in Tarapacá Region. The main objective of Doña Inés de Collahuasi’s project is to increase the concentrator’s throughput capacity from an average of 170 ktpd to 210 ktpd. Currently, the awarded service corresponds to the execution of Package PG1 - the first of three packages contemplated for this project - which involves the detailed engineering and procurement (EP) of six flotation cells, and on-site support during the construction phase.

Job Summary:

In this role, you will provide non-routine cost engineering/planning and scheduling needs to projects. You will establish stakeholder relationships, conduct schedule analysis and integrate activities, identify restraints, quantify risks, monitor cost and performance, recommend alternatives, and deliver training sessions and workshops. Your activities will synthesize project components into seamless execution.

Major Responsibilities:

• Coordinating cost engineering/planning and scheduling needs to projects, verifying quantities and JH received from Subcontractors, validated by Construction and Field Engineering. 
• Coordinating with all departments to ensure understanding of total project schedule needs.
• Identifying schedule considerations and problems resulting from inter-discipline or functional restraints and interfaces.
• Monitoring and reporting critical path and schedule performance of the total project.
• Conducting project schedule analysis and studies of problem areas to determine criticality of schedule activities. Collecting and analyzing alternatives for schedule improvement. 
• Coordinating cost recording, monitoring, & reporting practices for compliance with applicable standards.
• Coordinating the development and accuracy of cost reports.
• Preparing specific budgets in accordance with prescribed standards and procedures and preparing  weekly report of HH Spent and Earned. 
• Overseeing the maintenance and upkeep of detailed project risk register through ongoing reviews to ensure data quality, accuracy, and timeliness including facilitation support during the risk workshops, risk identification sessions and other risk related activities.
• Delivering training sessions and facilitates workshops, training Technical Offices of contractors regarding the required reportability. 

Education and Experience Requirements:

Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 5-8 years of relevant experience or 9-12 years of relevant work experience.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Knowledge of Ecosys software, to maintain reportability of quantities on Bechtel platforms.
• Knowledge and experience in QURR reporting, to control amounts and hours spent and earned.
• Experience in Analysis of PF and Rates of the constructive progress of the project.
• Ability to work in conjunction with planning to maintain the percentage of progress as planned.
• Knowledge in the management of the information coming from the CAPEX, must be able to read, understand and manipulate the CAPEX in its completeness.
• Knowledge in the process of trends of a construction project.

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