What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager-Underground Mining position at Redpath Mining Contractors and Engineers?
Redpath USA Corporation a premier full-service underground mining contractor is in search of an experienced Underground Mining Project Manager to join our team.
Job Description:
Project: Kennecott Copper
Location: Salt Lake City
Compensation: Redpath USA Corporation offers competitive and comprehensive wages and benefits.
Conditions of Employment: Acceptable results relating to mandatory drug test, background check, medical physical and compliance with Redpath health and safety requirements.
Job Summary:
The Project Manager is responsible for achieving project objectives and targets to ensure the successful completion of the project. This includes conducting project planning, managing, and resourcing the project, ensuring the health, safety, training, environmental and quality systems are successfully complied with, contract administration, the administration of cost control systems, managing the commercial interests of the project, tracking project deliverables, and providing overall leadership and direction to the project team.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Exhibit sound leadership practices, solid guidance and to provide direction and support to Direct Reports with clear and concise communications via daily meetings, reviews, documented planning.
- Ensures strict adherence to the Redpath’s Philosophy, Guidelines for Success, Code of Conduct and Cardinal Rules.
- Establishes full compliance with the Redpath safety program.
- Oversee the development, implementation and maintenance of project baselines and project execution plans, inclusive of managing the setup of project administrative aspects.
- Manage project performance tracking through daily, weekly and monthly reports.
- Recommend action to be taken should there be deviations from the optimal performance.
- Review and determine project schedules, manpower budget, cost budget, cost control with Managers.
- Effectively liaise with Client representatives as well as other contracting companies’ personnel.
- Establishes key performance indicators with Operations Management.
- Must demonstrate good conceptual skills in understanding relationships between projects, the overall organization and its environment, and how change in one part of the project affects the whole.
- Promote and support the Redpath/KUC management team.
- Review and approve Investigation Reports.
- Review and approve disciplinary actions for employees.
- Review and Approve expenditures for purchases of materials.
- Review and approve Department Rotational leave schedule.
- Review performance appraisal recommendation and approve promotions.
- Approve promotion and new hire salaries for National Employees.
- Review and approve invoicing to client.
- Ability to work independently on complex tasks and non-routine matters.
- Must be able to comprehend written and verbal instructions as required to perform his duties in an efficient manner.
- Comply with daily, weekly and monthly safety directives, policies, and procedures.
- Maintain confidentiality with respect to Redpath and client information.
- Complies with and ensure compliance with Redpath’s Policies and Procedures as detailed in the appropriate manuals, handbooks, directives, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
- Able to work in excess of 40 hours a week, overtime, day and nights, weekends, holidays and shift rotations.
- Compliance with Redpath Core Competencies is an essential duty and responsibility.
- The duties and responsibilities listed above are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all inclusive.
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other related fields Highly preferred.
- Post graduate degree in Project Management or Business Administration (desired).
- The incumbent will have a minimum 10-15 years of project management experience in mining, shaft sinking, lateral development, or similar underground Mining projects with a sound knowledge of contract principles and data manipulation into management information.
- 5-7 years managing employees.