Job Description

About the Role

Principal Engineer - Maintenance and Infrastructure to join our Advisory Division. The role is primarily responsible for providing consulting services to our clients and requires extensive experience in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering, Projects and Maintenance roles. Experience as a Project Manager or senior operational maintenance roles in the mining industry, financial modelling skills or in Lenders Engineering would be highly regarded.

The successful candidate will have on-site experience on mines in maintenance, mine infrastructure and/or projects, while prior exposure to a consulting environment would be advantageous.

This role will allow the successful candidate to rapidly gain experience across numerous studies and types of mining while working with a team of leading specialists in all aspects of the mining value chain. An interest in working on global projects and assignments, along with a willingness to collaborate with Clients and colleagues from varied cultural backgrounds, is key to this role.

Irregular domestic and international travel is a requirement of this role.

Key Responsibilities

Global consulting projects such as pre-feasibility studies, technical reports, due diligence and Lenders Engineering.

Ensure client requirements are adequately defined and recorded.

Verify the scope of work and deliver outcomes on time.

Develop qualified leads and follow up on potential opportunities.

Proposal planning and preparation.

Contribution to technical development within the company.

Working efficiently and effectively as a technical expert, Project Manager or Project Director as required.

Collaborating with clients from project kick-off to delivery, maintaining regular follow-up engagement.

Preparing and reviewing project reports as well as presenting key outcomes to clients.

Maintaining a broad professional network within the mining industry to consolidate and expand SLR's client relationships.

Minimum Requirements

Tertiary Qualification in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering.

Minimum of 10 years of experience is required.

Is a Registered Professional Engineer or is eligible and willing to work towards obtaining Professional Engineer status.

Experience in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering, Lenders Engineering, Project Management, Mine Infrastructure and Maintenance roles.

Experience in senior roles in Projects and/or Maintenance in the mining industry is required.

Budgeting and Planning or Financial modelling skills would be highly regarded.

Experience in the mining industry composed of onsite and consulting roles.

High performance, technically strong, self-motivated individual.

Extensive periods ideally at multiple mine sites in technical or operational roles.

Have experience contributing to a broad range of project or operational reporting documentation i.e. reports, feasibility studies, etc.

The ability to communicate complex solutions to a variety of customer stakeholders, from technical to non-technical.

Strong command of the English language in both verbal and written form.

Willingness to learn.

Must be legally entitled to work in South Africa.

Post-graduate qualifications in business studies or similar is advantageous.

SLR's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered part of the recruitment process. We actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply. SLR is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates, and values diversity and inclusion.