Job Title: Operational Technology – Project Manager (Spanish Speaking)Job ID: CV912708974Location: Vancouver/Calgary/ possibly Toronto - HybridOverview:The Project Manager (“PM”) is primarily responsible for successfully managing and delivering projects from inception to completion. Projects are pre-defined by various departments within the company and, as such, the PM will take direction from various stakeholders in addition to the Project Management Office (“PMO”). The PM is expected to deliver all assigned projects on time, on budget, on plan, and with a high level of quality. While there will be no staff directly reporting to this role, the PM will be required to manage and supervise resources that have been assigned to the respective project. Our client is executing several Capital Projects, building or expanding new facilities, etc. with new Control & Automation Systems and other Operational Technology. These projects require support from an experienced Project Manager, with proven skills in Real-Time & Scada systems, development, and deployment of industrial applications, cyber security, and architecture. This role is to predominantly execute projects in South America (mainly Chile) remotely from Canada. What you will be doing:

• Ensuring all projects have been properly authorized for execution at each stage of the lifecycle including Architectural and Security reviews and approval;
• Ensuring that all relevant documents and artifacts are stored in the appropriate project folders
• (SharePoint) as per the PMO framework requirements and are readily available for scrutiny by the PMO, management, and Internal Audit
• Ensuring execution of all phases of the projects are conducted in a responsible, safe manner ensuring there are no unreasonable risks taken that would jeopardize safety in any way
• Conducting ad-hoc project audits to confirm they are on track with documentation, budget, schedule, and scope to mitigate potential risks to compliance or project success
• Verifying project process compliance for Corporate Applications SOX and related audits.
• Ensuring that a Project Lifecycle (from Initiation to Closure) is executed based on the current PMO policies and framework as defined on the PMO website
• Managing the projects from initiation to closure with a committed goal of delivering on time, on budget, scope complete with a high level of quality and business satisfaction
• Overseeing and managing the team members working on the project
• Working with Operations and Departmental Managers to request and obtain required resources to meet deliverables
• Managing all funds spent on the project, includes maintaining a detailed current view of the budget, actuals, and forecast numbers
• Developing and executing required Test Plans to ensure high-quality deliverables
• Providing transparency into project health through published schedules, regular status reporting, and current budget and forecasts
• Managing and documenting any scope changes impacting schedule, budget, or quality
• Monitoring project team timesheet reporting to ensure proper project accounting
• Acting as a mediator between project stakeholders and the project team
• Identifying, resolving, and escalating any issues and risks as required
• Coordinating technical work at Site with local IT resources.
• Clustering upgrades and repairs into small projects
• Project Proposals, Projects Charters, Project Estimates, Project Boards, and Metrics
• Gantt Charts, Milestones, Governance, Risk Registers, Cost Reports, Backlog lists
• Business Cases, Investment or Funding proposals (Appropriation Requests)
• Deployment Plans, Test Plans, Closeout reports, Lessons learned
• Stage-Gate documentation and other project artifacts

What you must have:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in a technical discipline
• PMP/Prince2 certification (preferred)
• Agile Certified Practitioner, Certified Scrum Master (preferred)
• 7+ years managing IT projects in a large complex corporate environment,
• 10 years in a Project Manager role managing project teams
• Skilled in the use of Project Management systems
• Practical experience managing projects greater than $1M
• Proven management and team leadership abilities
• Cost Management, Change Management, Risk Management experience
• Strong verbal and written communication skills at both technical and executive level
• Familiar with Microsoft 365 toolset, Teams, Project Online, Azure DevOps (or equivalent)
• Familiarity with Mining or other Natural Resource business desirable
• Fluent in Spanish and English
• Fully productive as a remote worker (and have appropriate connectivity – The company will provide Laptop)
• Able to work 5 days a week during Chilean working hours (i.e. from 4:00 AM PST to 12:00 PM PST during (Canada's winter months); 6:00 am PST to 2:00 pm PST during (Canada's summer)
• Skilled in Agile
• 5+ years' experience developing and implementing mining-related systems (mine planning, production statistics, integrated operations, metallurgical accounting, etc…)
• Familiar with Operations business processes, e.g. HAZOPS
• Familiar with Industrial Capital Projects
• Experienced in working with geographically dispersed stakeholders and development teams, in offices or the field.
• Innovation & Technology savvy
• Aware of Cyber Security principles for industrial purposes

*The successful candidate will have occasional travel to the region and the sites (subject to Covid work/travel restrictions)For more information about TEEMA and to consider other career opportunities, please visit our website at www.teemagroup.com By applying to TEEMA on any job portal implies you are entering into a business relationship with us and therefore grants TEEMA consent to send you further job updates or industry and company-related information.