Portfolio Manager, Mine Waste

Join our team of intelligent and collaborative Changemakers and make your mark on tomorrow

In this Perth-based role, you'll work with the Mine Waste Manager and wider Mine Waste team as a Portfolio Manager. Deliver a program of projects for our key clients, while managing key stakeholders and contractors.

Our Mining team helps clients optimise performance, boost profitability, and operate responsibly. We have a comprehensive understanding of the mining industry and current issues including decarbonisation and understand future ready strategies are critical to countering these issues, capitalising on opportunities, and adding value to businesses.

**What you'll do**:

- Deliver a program of projects for key clients through management of key stakeholders and contractors.
- Manage work programs to deliver engineering services with respect to mine waste management.
- Support multiple concurrent projects across the entire life cycle, including design management, tendering, contract administration, financial management, project scheduling and risk management.
- Lead the design of tailings storage facilities and other earthen structures, from conceptual through to delivery stages.
- Delegation of components project tasks.
- Plan and direct field investigations and other tasks to meet project requirements.
- Develop connections nationally and internationally.
- Provide regular client contact and proposals through project meetings and business development initiatives.
- Prepare regular update reports for clients.
- Mentor junior personnel.
- Prepare and deliver technical reports on time.
- Work with other professionals in project teams.

**About you**:

- Bachelor's degree in civil/Mining Engineering or project management qualifications are desirable.
- Proven project management experience including managing multiple coinciding programs with internal and external stakeholders with the ability to manage competing priorities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including report writing, presentations and client interactions.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work independently and within multi-disciplinary project teams.
- Access to local industry knowledge and contacts.
- Demonstrable commitment and proactive approach to health and safety culture.
- Demonstrated commitment to providing high quality service to clients within budget and time constraints.

**About WSP**

WSP is one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms, bringing together approximately 4,300 talented people across 14 offices in Australia. We have committed to halving the carbon footprint of our designs and advice by 2030. Our sustainable solutions and Future Ready projects will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.

Our vibrant workplace culture is an important part of what makes this a great place to work. It is supported by our Guiding Principles:

- We value our people and our reputation.
- We are locally dedicated with international scale.
- We are future focused and challenge the status quo.
- We foster collaboration in everything we do.
- We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable.

WSP prioritises the health and wellbeing of our people by offering flexible working, 12 weeks parental leave, opportunities for global mobility, purchased additional leave, and competitive remuneration among many more benefits designed to help you shine. We are committed to providing an inclusive, diverse and equal opportunity workplace. We promote Indigenous voices and are actively delivering a 'Stretch' level Reconciliation Action Plan. Accredited by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency as an Employer of Choice, we also support the LGBTQI+ community, and encourage all employees to bring their whole selves to work.

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