Study Manager, Mining

We are currently seeking a Study Manager to join our Mining team in Canada, based out of one of our offices in Vancouver, BC or Calgary, AB.

The Study Manager is the principal liaison between Stantec and clients during the planning and execution of mining studies.

The successful candidate will drive the identification, evaluation, selection, and/or optimization for a variety of mining projects as a key service offering for our diverse client base.

You will have the opportunity to successfully steer complex studies through our various clients’ stage gate processes, developing and applying robust study management techniques, while leading a multi-disciplinary team across multiple offices.

• Understand the client’s objectives and study definition guidelines.
• Drive the scope definition and execution planning for each study, working with a multi-disciplinary team to translate the client’s objectives and study definition guidelines into an actionable, controllable scope of work and plan of execution.
• Implement study management processes and procedures, including risk and value management, option identification/evaluation/selection, and assurance activities as required.
• Deliver integrated studies on time and within budget, while ensuring alignment between engineering, estimating, scheduling and risk from Order-of-Magnitude / Preliminary Economic Assessments through to Definitive Feasibility Studies.
• Serve as a technical peer reviewer or Qualified Person in the execution of the technical components of the work. Answer questions and give daily guidance and communications to the project team, thus developing the team’s technical competence.
• Assist the client with crafting the story of their studies, including engagement with other client stakeholders to present the progress and/or outcomes.
• Understand and implement various stage gate study standard processes.
• Lead the pursuit effort from identification through proposal development, successful proposal submission, and post-proposal support.