Manager, Project Integration -  Studies (El Pachón Project)

Division: Capital Projects Group

Location: Santiago, Chile / San Juan, Argentina 

Reports to: Project Director

Qualifications:

• College/University Education: Relevant tertiary qualifications required, preferably in Technical (Engineering) or Business major

• Business capabilities: Well developed computer literacy, specifically MS Office suite and project related tools (scheduling, cost control, risk and opportunity management etc.)

Main objective of the Job

To provide leadership and co-ordination within a project team during PFS and FS stages to enable value creation through key trade-off decisions and optimization of the project, configurations, mine plans, construction and commissioning execution plans, including enabling works, together with integration of project permitting to be fully developed, culminating in a syndicated and coherent business case that maximizes value between Glencore and related stakeholders.

Operating context

The work of this role may begin in late Concept stage and endure to the end of the Feasibility stage. Integration activities during construction require a different skill set and focus (reference alternative role description for construction stage).

Control elements:

• Capital Management Framework (CMF)

• Enterprise Risk Management protocols

• Human Rights and Social Performance Standards

• Delegated Authorities

• Authorised Project Capital and annual budgets

• Monthly Projects report

• Capital quality assurance activities (incl. IPRs, ITRs and PIRs)

• Industrial Asset Quarterly Performance Report and Review

• All other relevant Company policies and procedures

• Project Reference Case and Management of Change

• Project Commodity endorsed Economic Evaluation Model (EEM)

Experience & skills

• Proven significant experience in leading the planning and implementation of multidisciplinary capital projects in the mining and metals’ industry – minimum of 10 years of experience at senior levels of project leadership, up to and including senior project engineer, or project manager, ideally complemented with operational and broader mining and minerals experience

• Significant experience in developing and optimising project financial evaluations

• Strong strategic business and financial acumen balanced with a strong understanding of risk and uncertainty management

• Proven ability to hold ambiguity and complexity and to break down problems into discrete, logical and iterative steps that enable project teams to navigate through complex issues, typically encountered in PFS and in brownfield projects or other complex delivery environments

• In-depth experience applying capital project management methodologies, such as project shaping and framing, asset planning and project economic evaluation models combined with clear thinking and effective written and verbal communication skills essential to achieve technical and schedule integration

• Highly developed team-leadership, organization, sensory and communication skills, solution and value focused with an ability to drive towards and hold ambitious schedule targets, leading on occasion as needed in key areas of uncertainty

• Ideally, demonstrable experience in working within and leading diverse and integrated teams, creating collaborative delivery environments that recognize disruptive thinking with decision making primarily based on maximizing sources of value

• Ability to visualize, describe and communicate complex and ambiguous multidisciplinary issues to senior management while being able to develop and offer proposed pathways to unlock these through collaboration with project and external resources

Key accountabilities

• Creates and maintains continuous alignment of project scope with business objectives via a project reference case of scope, CAPEX, OPEX and key assumptions and clearly articulated trade off decisions, adjusting the reference case via Management of Change once clear alignment and syndicated endorsement of recommendations or reference case adjustment has been achieved / received

• Provides deep technical and commercial integration through implementation of a structured and rigorous problem-solving methodology that delivers syndicated solutions to project critical issues while maximizing value

• Effectively manages project integration by leading and continuously collaborating and influencing project disciplines in prioritizing and performing trade-off studies and documenting conclusions and recommendations for endorsement

• Guides and supports all activity related to configuration, trade-off decisions and reference case CAPEX, OPEX, schedule and all other inputs required for project economic evaluation models

• Facilitates project integration meetings, internally and with customer commodity department asset teams, driving aligned progress, leading key workstreams as required and as requested

• Ensures that project integration is consistent with and informs LOAs

• Prepares and presents syndicated recommendations to Project Steering Groups, together with Project Manager / Director as applicable

• Typically, deputises for the Project Manager or Project Director during PFS and early FS activity

Job Relationships and Structure
Direct reports: None

Other key relationships

Internal:

• Regional or Global PMO functional representatives (e.g. Project Controls, Value engineering and Benchmarking)

• Project Key Discipline Leads, including embedded IPMT staff from performing contractor organisations

• Regional Projects Portfolio Director, Head of Project Execution, Head of Technical, Industrial Lead, Capital Projects Group

• Heads of Technical, Glencore Commodity Departments

• Group support functions (Engineering, Environment and Social Performance)

• Commodity Department Asset Managers

• Heads of Country (where applicable)

External:

• EPCM and 3rd party Performing Contractors

• Technical Consultants

• Government representatives (Regulatory Departments)

• Technology Suppliers