Project Engineer

Project Engineer

Trafigura Group has an immediate need for a qualified Project Engineer at its Myra Falls Mine on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.  Myra Falls Mine is an underground mine operation located 90 km southwest of Campbell River, BC in the picturesque surroundings of Strathcona Provincial Park. Surrounded by mountains and lakes, the trip to the mine has some of the world’s most impressive views.

 If you like to work with people in an operation to deliver results, and you enjoy an active outdoor lifestyle of Vancouver Island’s coastal life, this could be your opportunity.

Make Myra Falls Mine your next career choice!

Responsibilities

Reporting to the Technical Services and Mine Manager, the Project Engineer plays a key role managing all underground related capital projects to ensure that all the deliverables are delivered on time and within budget.  More specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Compliance with Myra Falls Mine HSEC policies
• Generate projects schedules using the appropriate software (e.g. Microsoft Project)
• Planning, scheduling and coordinating underground capital projects
• Developing scope of works for various projects
• Provide cost forecast, cost variance, and accruals as required by the finance department
• Attend all projects meetings ( bi-weekly) and provide all information as required by the senior leadership team
• Demonstrate a sense of urgency when dealing with projects and continuously finding way to optimize projects
• Deliver on all outputs generated from the projects, achieving all deliverables as per the baseline schedule and within budget
• Maintain detailed progress reports of underground project activities and report project performance to management

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of three (3) years experience working in Mining and one (1) year in Project Management
• Ability to implement cost management and cost control measures

• Proficient with MS Office Suite of tools, exposure to schedule software, Microsoft Project, preferably Primavera (P6) and CAD

 We thank all applicants for their interest; however, we are only able to contact those who have been shortlisted.