About Our Client
A leading mining corporation focused on sustainable development and continuously progressing in their ways of working.
Job Description
* Collaborate with our R&D team to advance innovative closure solutions, including digital, sensing, and automation projects.
* Manage 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 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.
The Successful Applicant
* Strong communication skills are essential.
* Tertiary qualifications in engineering (e.g. systems, robotics, automation, computer science, etc.) are required.
* We are seeking a candidate with capacity to handle portfolios of various projects in different stages and subjects.
* Demonstrated experience influencing key stakeholders in a large, cross-functional environment is necessary.
* Robust commercial and contractual acumen for establishing partnerships is required.
* Capacity for divergent thinking combined with an entrepreneurial and venture investment mindset is desired.
Desirable
* Agile and/or PMP certifications are advantageous.
* Experience in scoping and leading the execution of integrated digital and automation development programs covering detection/data capture is desirable.
What's on Offer
This role offers an opportunity to make a lasting environmental impact through innovative technology solutions, within a high-performing and dynamic team environment.