Team Leader – Mine Closure Engineering

My client is a specialist Australian mine closure consultancy who work across the full closure picture - planning, cost estimation, landform design, mine waste, technical studies and closure execution.

They currently have an opportunity for a Team Leader to take over one of their engineering teams. The current leader is staying with the business and moving into a more specialist technical role, so this is a proper handover and set up for success.

The role

The team provides closure cost estimation, technical modelling and conceptual design. They have strong, technical modellers who are highly capable in landform evolution, cover systems and surface water, but they are looking for someone who can be the conduit between the modelling function and the client.

Someone who can assess a site and work out where the real risks are, decide what needs modelling and why, support the technical specialists, and turn the results into practical advice a client can use.

It is a combined people leadership and technical role, with a mix of chargeable project work and running the group.

The work will include

• Leading a small team - workload, coaching, training and reporting
• Scoping technical studies and setting the direction of the modelling work
• Reviewing reports and ensuring quality technical communication across the team
• Managing projects and budgets
• Client meetings, updates and technical advice
• Supporting the design and delivery team where technical studies are needed
• Occasional site visits

What matters most

• The judgement to look at a site and work out what actually needs studying, and why
• Enough modelling knowledge to scope and review the work properly - you will not be running the models yourself
• The ability to take technical work and turn it into clear, practical advice, written and verbal
• Experience leading, coaching or mentoring a technical team
• Client and stakeholder management
• Solid project and time management

Background

• A relevant degree - BEng or BSc. Civil, environmental or geotechnical engineering is preferred, but they are open to environmental science, hydrology, hydrogeology or mining engineering with the right experience
• Around 10 + years' experience
• Mine closure, rehabilitation or landform design experience is ideal. Related backgrounds in mine waste, tailings, surface water or contaminated land are worth a conversation
• Exposure to modelling - landform evolution, cover systems and unsaturated flow, or surface water. The team uses Siberia, SEEP/W, PCSWMM and HEC-RAS, but you will not need all of them
• Closure cost estimation, or experience running multidisciplinary or PFS / FS style studies, is useful

You do not need to be the deepest technical person in the room. You need enough background to understand how the work is done, manage assumptions properly and know when something needs revisiting.

What's in it for you

• Competitive salary anticipated in the region of $180k - $220k + super, negotiable on experience
• Down to earth, approachable management and a company with strong ethics and values.
• Leading a specialist team in mine closure, a part of the market that keeps growing
• Genuine problem solving work across a wide range of sites and commodities
• Small, technically diverse team - engineers, scientists and geochemists working closely together
• You will work alongside some of the most recognised modelling specialists in WA
• Real collaboration across the business rather than working in a silo
• Flexible working including some working from home
• Parking on site
• Potential for equity in the business longer term
• Work that leaves a lasting environmental legacy

Please note, this role is only open to candidates currently based in Australia with full working rights.

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