Plant Engineering Projects Director - Mining

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the governance and delivery of sustaining capital projects across multiple mining operations.
• Develop and implement project governance frameworks, standards and best practices.
• Oversee capital planning, budgeting and portfolio prioritisation.
• Drive the preparation and review of capital investment proposals (AFE/business cases).
• Ensure projects are delivered safely, on schedule and within budget.
• Establish portfolio KPIs and executive reporting to measure project performance.
• Partner with operations, maintenance, engineering and finance to align capital investments with business priorities.
• Provide leadership and mentoring to project and engineering teams while fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Candidate Profile

• Degree qualified in Engineering or a related discipline.
• 15+ years' experience in engineering, capital projects or project portfolio management within mining or heavy industry.
• Demonstrated success managing multi-site sustaining capital programmes.
• Strong understanding of project governance, stage-gate processes and capital approval methodologies.
• Experience developing and managing significant annual capital budgets.
• Excellent commercial, financial and risk management capability.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working across operations, engineering, maintenance and corporate leadership functions.
• Experience within large mining companies, EPCM organisations or other similar sectors will be highly regarded.