West Region Mining Practice Lead

HDR's Mining Practice clients continue to have significant growth in permitting, design and operational technical support for greenfield and brownfield projects. To support this growth, HDR is seeking a West Region Mining Practice Lead to support our clients manage the engineering, GIS and permitting challenges in their business. This position is a Doer / Seller role with a key focus on 1. Technical Leadership/ Project Management/Program Building/ Staff Growth and 2. Business Development as the main responsibilities.

The primary 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 the West Region through area and national 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 in 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 construction materials, industrial minerals, metals, phosphates, etc. Additionally, it is expected that this role would include recruiting of personnel to continue to grow the Mining Practice in the West Region, inclusive of expanding our service offerings/capabilities in the Region.

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. PE in a minimum of one state. Multiple states preferred.
• A minimum of 15 years related industry experience.
• A minimum of 10 years mining project management experience.
• Experience in managing mining projects to a successful conclusion (budget, schedule, safety, quality).
• Familiarity with multiple commodity mining operations, material handling, studies, design, and execution for a mine's site lifecycle.
• 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.
• Basic understanding of Google Earth, ESRI ArcGIS, and Autodesk AutoCAD.
• MSHA Surface certification.
• Mine planning experience including software e.g., Aggflow; Vulcan; Calrson; etc.
• Open pit and underground mine experience.
• Hard rock, soft rock and industrial minerals consulting and operations experience.
• Mine software experience for block modeling.
• Former experience working for a mining company.
• MSHA Underground certification.
• PMP Certification
  

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