Global Lead – Mining Practice

Our client is a large, multidisciplinary engineering/professional services firm that delivers a comprehensive range of technical and strategic services, including consulting, information technology, engineering, process development, as well as project and construction management to various heavy industrial sectors.

Major corporations around the world recognize our client for its ability to bridge the gaps between research and innovative technologies, and between engineering and reliable operations. The firm places strong emphasis on developing innovative approaches, technologies and solutions that add value to its customers businesses.

Our client delivers unprecedented business results through a commitment to quality, lower operating costs, more efficient utilization of capital assets, higher standards for safety and risk management, faster start-ups and continuous performance improvements in all projects and programs.

Scope of Position

As entire industries cope with tectonic market shifts, the appetite for disruptive thinking, technology and solutions to design, build and enhance their operations grows at an unprecedented pace. Our client’s mining business leads its sector in this revolution.

From brownfield upgrades to making processes more efficient, to fine-tuning machinery, to planning and implementing major new integrated developments, our client’s objective is always the same: to address their clients’ most serious challenges and solve their toughest problems.

Our client’s services include:

• Mine design and planning
• Backfill
• Automation
• Mass mining
• Electrification
• Shafts and hoisting systems
• Operational improvement
• Mine ventilation and refrigeration
• Project management and procurement services
• Construction management
• Dynamic simulation

Currently our client is seeking an individual to assume global leadership for its mining practice which includes:

• Mining Infrastructure
• Mine Design and Operational Excellence

Reporting to the Global Managing Director, the successful candidate will leverage his/her personal and professional knowledge, experience and capabilities, as well as our client’s extensive in-house resources, to drive the practice’s technologies and services to a larger global market share.

The firm’s Mining Practice serves key clients across all commodities groups (Base Metals, Bulk and Minerals) and boasts a significant opportunity to expand its client relationships. This successful candidate will be at the helm of the strategy, team, and execution plan to deliver on the promise of this opportunity with the support the firm’s most senior leadership.

The successful candidate will bring deep technical experience in the mining sector. He/she will demonstrate proven effectiveness in influencing through insight, building trusted advisor relationships, partnering with clients to understand their needs (from issue to outcome), shaping the ‘right’ solutions in order to help mining companies implement sustainable business plans, become more competitive and get the most value from their assets.

The role requires a differentiated understanding of clients’ industry landscape and the capacity to create solutions that bring the best of our client to help customers achieve their objectives.

This successful candidate will also be responsible for practice building activities, thought leadership, people development, and continuing to build an extraordinary team.

Functional Tasks

• Work with members of the senior management team to refine, develop and implement the strategic direction for the Mining Practice. This will include focusing the strategic road map and existing market plans, expanding and improving market penetration, and enhancing competitive positioning.
• Work closely with the vertical business teams and customers to identify and anticipate opportunities for the practice
• Ensure that organizational capacity is in place by which to deliver on the practice’s plans.
• Provide ongoing direction, performance management and developmental support to the team. Continue to build world-class capabilities. Focus and inspire the team to accelerate and drive the growth of the business, new market development, sector leadership and…