Fourmile - Senior Project Engineer

Would you like to have a career with a collaborative, diverse, and dynamic mining company? Our people division is growing, and we are looking for a Senior Project Engineer to join the Fourmile Team. The Senior Project Engineer will oversee engineering, field execution, and project management activities in a dynamic environment while supporting one of Barrick’s most exciting projects.

About Barrick

Barrick is the gold industry leader with a vision of wealth generation through responsible mining—wealth for our owners, our people, and the countries and communities with which we partner. Our objective is to maintain and grow industry-leading margins, driven by innovation and our digital transformation. We aim to cultivate a high-performance culture defined by partnership, operational excellence, disciplined capital allocation, and continual self-improvement.

Responsibilities

• Spend significant time in the field for planning, construction, commissioning, and handover phases
• Lead field engineering activities, verify design alignment with real-world conditions, support construction teams, and proactively address issues before they impact scope, schedule, or cost
• Develop project execution plan and build owner’s team with necessary resources
• Drive projects from concept through closeout
• Oversee project execution, both in the field and in the office, ensuring strong visibility, alignment, and communication with construction teams, contractors, and operational stakeholders
• Supervise, mentor, and train project engineers, define clear objectives and expectations of direct reports, evaluate performance, provide verbal and written feedback on career growth, and encourage innovative thinking and process improvement
• Develop proposals and cost estimates, including required equipment, materials, personnel, and other peripheral services
• Represent stakeholder interests in the field during execution and ensure clear communication between engineering teams, contractors, and site departments
• Prepare, schedule, coordinate, and monitor assigned engineering projects and manage projects within the constraints of time, cost, and scope, and report any significant deviations including proposed countermeasures
• Confirm engineering specifications and criteria comply with applicable regulatory and corporate codes, practices, policies, standards, and specifications
• Interface with environmental department to ensure all permitting is in place to prevent delays to construction, commissioning, and operation of project
• Prepare capital allocation requests including all required supporting documentation, and champion the project to seek approval and funding
• Maintain accurate records of committed, expended, and forecast costs associated with the project against the approved budget
• Perform risk and consequences analysis for projects to help understand both risks and opportunities that may occur during each project phase
• Oversee quality control tasks against budgets, schedules, plans, and produce project status reports for distribution
• Develop procurement specifications for equipment and work scopes for engineering, procurement, and construction bid packages
• Effectively communicate with members of the project team and collaborate with stakeholders to adopt the most cost-effective and efficient practices
• Provide technical review for procurement tender and award activities
• Create and/or update standard operating procedures and asset management tactics, and provide training to operating personnel during commissioning and start-up
• Develop framework to measure a project's metrics to monitor performance, and contribute to daily, weekly, and monthly data reconciliation and analytics reporting
• Ensure all project control procedures are implemented and validated through regular field engagement, progress tracking, and coordination with cross-functional project participants
• Perform other duties as required

Requirements

• 5 to 10 years practical experience in underground industry, preferably in a mining environment
• Minimum of 2 years supervisory experience, preferably in an underground environment
• Direct experience working in an underground environment preferred

Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation package including competitive medical, dental, and vision plans with national provider networks
• 401k retirement plan with employer contribution
• Paid time off
• Company-sponsored medical clinics
• Company match share purchase program
• Opportunities to grow and learn with industry colleagues
• Access to a variety of career opportunities across the organization