Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

Reporting to: Technical Studies Lead

ROLE PURPOSE :

The Senior Project Engineer – Studies & Delivery supports the Technical Studies Lead in the execution and coordination of MDO's project studies across the full Front-End Loading (FEL) lifecycle. The role is responsible for managing assigned study workstreams, coordinating multi-discipline technical inputs, maintaining study progress tracking systems, and ensuring consultant deliverables meet MDO's quality, governance, and schedule requirements.

Operating under the technical direction of the Technical Studies Lead, the Senior Project Engineer serves as a key day-to-day interface with study consultants and specialist technical firms, resolves technical integration issues across disciplines, and prepares study documentation for gate reviews. The role contributes to the preparation of investment-quality study outputs from Scoping through to Gate 3 FID.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

Study Workstream Execution & Coordination

- Manage and coordinate assigned study workstreams across all FEL phases — Scoping (G0–G1), Pre-Feasibility Study (G2), Definitive Feasibility Study (G3), and FEED — ensuring each workstream is delivered to agreed scope, schedule, and budget under the direction of the Technical Studies Lead.

- Prepare and maintain study workstream schedules, deliverable registers, action logs, and milestone trackers for each assigned study phase, providing regular status updates to the Technical Studies Lead.

- Identify deviations from approved study plans early and escalate to the Technical Studies Lead with proposed corrective actions.

- Maintain the study document register for assigned workstreams, ensuring version control, document traceability, and alignment with MDO's governance framework from concept through to Gate 3.

- Coordinate the collection, consolidation, and review of technical inputs from consultants and internal MDO functions at each study milestone.

- Apply lessons learned from previous studies and projects to the design of study scopes and management plans.

Consultant Interface & Deliverable Management

- Serve as the day-to-day owner-side interface with assigned study consultants and specialist technical firms on behalf of the Technical Studies Lead, ensuring deliverable quality, schedule adherence, and alignment with MDO's terms of reference.

- Review and comment on consultant draft deliverables — including technical reports, study inputs, engineering calculations, cost estimates, and discipline outputs — providing structured, evidence-based feedback in accordance with MDO's quality standards.

- Maintain consultant deliverable registers and KPI tracking systems, monitoring consultant progress, flagging performance issues, and reporting to the Technical Studies Lead.

- Coordinate RFI processes, technical queries, and clarification requests between MDO and study consultants, ensuring timely resolution and documentation.

- Support the Technical Studies Lead in the procurement and onboarding of study consultants, including scope of work development, terms of reference preparation, and technical bid evaluation support.

- Ensure all consultant deliverables are archived systematically in MDO's document management system with appropriate version control and traceability.

Multi-Discipline Technical Integration

- Coordinate multi-discipline technical inputs across geology, mining, metallurgy, process engineering, infrastructure, utilities, and environmental disciplines for assigned study workstreams, identifying and resolving integration gaps and inconsistencies.

- Coordinate metallurgical and process study inputs, tracking the status of testwork programmes, confirming that recovery assumptions are supported by testwork data, and liaising with the Technical Studies Lead to validate process design criteria.

- Interface with internal MDO functions — including Exploration, ESG, Finance, and Legal — to collect, consolidate, and integrate required study inputs at each phase milestone.

- Identify and document multi-discipline integration risks and gaps, escalating unresolved issues to the Technical Studies Lead with proposed resolution plans.

- Prepare technical integration summaries and discipline coordination matrices that support the Technical Studies Lead's review of study completeness and decision-quality.

Technical Report Review & JORC / NI 43-101 Support

- Review assigned consultant technical reports, study deliverables, and engineering outputs for accuracy, internal consistency, completeness, and fitness for purpose, escalating material deficiencies to the Technical Studies Lead.

- Support JORC Code and NI 43-101 compliance assurance across all assigned study deliverables, verifying that reporting requirements are embedded from the outset of each study phase.

- Maintain a structured register of open technical review comments, tracking resolution status and ensuring all comments are formally closed out prior to gate review submission.

- Prepare technical review summaries and draft technical sections of study reports as directed by the Technical Studies Lead.

- Assist in preparing gate-ready study documentation for all Stage-Gate reviews (G0 through G3), contributing to the completeness and quality of gate packages under the direction of the Technical Studies Lead.

Technical-Economic Analysis & Value Engineering Support

- Support the Technical Studies Lead in executing technical-economic trade-off analyses, preparing option comparison matrices, processing route evaluations, infrastructure alternative assessments, and capital cost scenario summaries.

- Prepare trade-off study inputs, data compilations, cost model inputs, and option evaluation documentation as directed by the Technical Studies Lead.

- Participate in value engineering workshops and contribute technical inputs, identifying opportunities to reduce CAPEX, improve schedule, enhance operability, or reduce technical risk.

- Maintain value engineering registers, documenting findings, decision rationale, and the carry-through of VE outcomes into subsequent study phases.

- Support the preparation of trade-off study summaries and value engineering reports for presentation by the Technical Studies Lead to the Director – Studies & Delivery.