Project Manager

About Our Client

A leading mining corporation focused on sustainable development and continuously progressing in their ways of working.

• Collaborate with an R&D team to advance innovative closure solutions, including digital, sensing, and automation projects.
• Managing remote sensing, automation, and digital twin development projects, aiming to drive safer, more efficient, and cost-effective approaches for environmental management.
• Lead and coordinate project stages from concept through MVP validation for multiple programs within the Closure R&D portfolio.
• Shape, scope, and manage studies and trials, creating business cases and budget plans.
• Implement project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall) to oversee schedules and budgets.
• Collaborate with internal teams, external technology partners, and R&D providers to deliver on objectives.
• Deliver structured project documentation, scope definitions, and regular reports on project progress.
• Engage cross-functional stakeholders to ensure alignment and successful outcomes.

• Strong communication skills
• Tertiary qualifications in engineering (e.g. systems, robotics, automation, computer science, etc.)
• Capacity of handling portfolios of various projects in different stages and subjects.
• Demonstrated experience of influencing key stakeholders in a large, cross-functional environment.
• Robust commercial and contractual acumen for the establishment of R&D and intellectual property/technology commercialisation partnerships.
• Capacity for divergent thinking combined with an entrepreneurial and venture investment mindset.
• Desirable
• Agile and/or PMP certifications
• Experience in scoping and leading the execution of integrated digital and automation development programs covering detection/data capture.

What's on Offer

This role is an opportunity to make a lasting environmental impact through innovative technology solutions, within a high-performing and dynamic team environment. If you have a passion for combining project management expertise with sustainability-driven technology development, apply to join a team dedicated to leaving a positive closure legacy.