Manager of Mine Hoisting and Shafts

About the role

Stantec Consulting is seeking a Senior Mine Hoisting and Shaft Specialist Design Professional Engineer to join our Professional Consulting Services team as a Manager of our Hoisting and Shaft team. This role involves the direct Management of a team of hoisting and shaft design people, for large-scale, iconic, deep-level projects across the full project lifecycle, and includes some flagship projects as well as international exposure.

Responsibilities

• Provide clear technical direction and oversight and ensure that teams integrate designs so that they are compliant, and constructible.
• Maintain enough depth to review designs, challenge assumptions, and resolve technical issues early.
• Provide oversight across all engineering disciplines to deliver a coherent system while flagging issues, managing interfaces, assumptions, constraints across teams, and providing oversight for execution planning, cost, and schedule.
• Establish structured communication, ensuring issues, decisions, and actions are tracked and closed out, act as the bridge between engineers, management, and clients, and maintain team discipline and drive accountability with clear roles and responsibilities.
• Own technical quality, assurance, and compliance with standards, identify and manage risks early, and ensure disciplined review processes are used, to avoid rework and late-stage issues.
• Provide day-to-day leadership, enabling teams to deliver safely and efficiently. Build a collaborative environment and develop team capability, delegate effectively and remove blockers rather than micromanaging.
• Ensure hoisting team consistently delivers work within allocated scope, budget, and schedule.
• Formulate and implement recovery plans for underperforming hoisting teams.
• Perform quality control on engineering deliverables within the hoisting design space.
• Collaborate with other Discipline Managers and guide teams to develop cohesive hoisting plant and headframe designs.
• Contribute to risk assessment and hazard identification in the design process.
• Where applicable, provide Professional Engineering sign-off on designs that can be used for construction, in the United States of America.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership skills and consulting and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Excellent client-facing communication skills, including conflict resolution in a professional manner.
• Exceptional problem-solving and organizational abilities.
• Knowledge of quality and safety standards, with an emphasis on Health Safety Security and Environment (HSSE).
• Strong work ethic.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in mechanical engineering.
• Licensed Professional Engineer in the USA, or the ability to be licensed within 6 months from the date of hire.
• 15-20 years of experience, with at least 5 years of practical shaft and hoist construction or maintenance experience in the field.
• Proven experience leading engineering design work and managing engineering teams.
• Exceptional working knowledge of hoisting systems, shafts, headframes, industry standards, and design tools.
• Good understanding of underground operations around mine shafts, including shaft stations, personnel and material flow, shaft pipes and electrical services (routing), and muck flow in and out of the hoisting systems.
• Familiarity with CAD modelling, Microsoft Office Suite, and other forms of specialized engineering design software, or the ability and willingness to learn.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to produce quality technical reports and documents.
• Demonstrated mentoring ability and interest in developing junior staff.

Skills

• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic work environment.
• Strong technical leadership.
• Exceptional problem-solving and organizational abilities.
• Knowledge of quality and safety standards, with an emphasis on Health Safety Security and Environment (HSSE).
• Strong work ethic.
• Exceptional leadership and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Excellent client-facing communication skills, including conflict resolution in a professional manner.
• Proven experience leading engineering design work and managing engineering teams.
• Exceptional working knowledge of hoisting systems, shafts, headframes, industry standards, and design tools.
• Good understanding of underground operations around mine shafts, including shaft stations, personnel and material flow, shaft pipes and electrical services (routing), and muck flow in and out of the hoisting systems.
• Familiarity with CAD modelling, Microsoft Office Suite, and other forms of specialized engineering design software, or the ability and willingness to learn.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to produce quality technical reports and documents.
• Demonstrated mentoring ability and interest in developing junior staff.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans.
• A wellness program.
• Health savings account.
• Flexible spending account.
• 401(k) plan.
• Employee stock purchase program.
• Life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance.
• Short-term/long-term disability plans.
• Emergency travel benefits.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Professional membership fee coverage.
• Paid family leave.

Pay

$117,800.00 - $176,800.00 Annually

Schedule

Full time

Travel

Yes