Engineering Lead قائد الهندسة

<p dir = "auto"><strong>ROLE PURPOSE </strong>:</p>
<p dir = "auto">The Engineering Lead is responsible for safeguarding the technical integrity of MDO's mining and processing projects throughout the study and execution phases. The role acts as MDO's owner-side technical assurance function, independently conducting engineering design reviews at 30%, 60%, and 90% completion milestones, validating plant throughput and metallurgical recovery assumptions, and ensuring that all designs are operable, maintainable, and constructable.</p>
<p dir = "auto">The Engineering Lead manages and approves MDO's engineering standards framework, leads technical due diligence for joint ventures and project financing, and manages the integration of lessons learned across the project portfolio. The role ensures that capital cost estimates are grounded in rigorous engineering definition and that MDO's projects are designed to deliver sustainable long-term value.</p>
<p dir = "auto"><strong>KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:</strong></p>
<p dir = "auto"><strong>Engineering Design Reviews</strong></p>
<p dir = "auto">• Conduct structured 30%, 60%, and 90% engineering design reviews of deliverables produced by EPCM firms and specialist consultants, ensuring compliance with MDO's engineering standards, applicable international codes, and the approved design basis at each study and execution milestone.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Document design review findings formally, assign responsibility for resolution of technical comments, and track closure of all open actions to completion.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Review and challenge EPCM and consultant engineering assumptions and technical decisions relating to process configuration, equipment selection, plant layout, and infrastructure design.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Assess engineering designs for compliance with safety-in-design principles, regulatory requirements, and applicable Omani standards.</p>
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<p dir = "auto"><strong>Throughput & Metallurgical Recovery Validation</strong></p>
<p dir = "auto">• Validate plant throughput assumptions and metallurgical recovery estimates embedded in feasibility studies and engineering designs, ensuring they are technically justified by testwork results and are appropriate for the level of study definition.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Review metallurgical testwork programmes for fitness-for-purpose, ensuring that test conditions are representative of ore types, variability is adequately characterised, and recovery projections are conservative and defensible.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Assess process design criteria and mass balance assumptions for consistency with testwork outcomes, and flag risks or optimism in recovery or throughput estimates to the Director – Studies & Delivery.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Coordinate with the Study Lead to ensure metallurgical and process validation findings are reflected in study reports and the Gate 3 FID package.</p>
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<p dir = "auto"><strong>Operability, Maintainability & Constructabilit</strong>y</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Ensure that all engineering designs are assessed for operability, maintainability, and constructability, providing formal review inputs at each design milestone to protect long-term asset performance and reduce lifecycle costs.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Facilitate constructability reviews during FEED in collaboration with the Contracts & Execution Planning Manager, identifying engineering changes that would reduce construction complexity, cost, or schedule risk.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Review equipment specifications and layout designs for access, maintenance, and operability, liaising with MDO's Operations function to incorporate operational experience and preferences.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Identify and document operability and maintainability risks in formal design review reports, ensuring findings are resolved or formally accepted before design progression.</p>
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<p dir = "auto"><strong>MDO Engineering Standards Management & Approval</strong></p>
<p dir = "auto">• Manage and maintain MDO's engineering standards framework, including design codes, technical specifications, equipment standards, and engineering procedures applicable across the project portfolio.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Review, approve, and issue MDO engineering standards documents, ensuring they reflect current industry best practice, applicable regulatory requirements, and lessons learned from MDO's project experience.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Enforce compliance with MDO's approved engineering standards across all EPCM and consultant deliverables, raising non-conformances formally and tracking resolution.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Establish and manage a technical document control and quality assurance process for engineering deliverables, ensuring consistency, version control, and traceability.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Review and approve key technical documents including design bases, engineering design criteria, functional specifications, and critical equipment data sheets.</p>
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<p dir = "auto"><strong>Technical Due Diligence for JVs & Financing</strong></p>
<p dir = "auto">• Lead technical due diligence processes for joint venture assessments, project financing transactions, and Board investment submissions, providing MDO's owner-side technical assessment of engineering risks, design assumptions, and capital cost reliability.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Review independent technical expert reports and lead MDO's response to technical findings, recommendations, and queries raised by financing institutions, JV partners, and the Board.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Prepare technical due diligence reports and executive summaries for the CPTO and Director – Studies & Delivery covering engineering risks, design maturity, and capital cost confidence levels.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Interface directly with independent engineers, lenders' technical advisors, and JV partner technical representatives as MDO's lead technical contact during due diligence processes.</p>
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<p dir = "auto"><strong>Lessons Learned Database Management</strong></p>
<p dir = "auto">• Manage MDO's engineering lessons-learned database, capturing technical findings, design errors, engineering review outcomes, and improvement opportunities from all completed and active studies and projects.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Integrate lessons learned systematically into the initiation and scoping of new study phases, ensuring that identified risks and improvement opportunities are explicitly addressed in new study scopes and terms of reference.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Prepare periodic lessons-learned integration reports for the Director – Studies & Delivery, summarising key findings, open actions from previous reviews, and how prior lessons have been applied.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Ensure lessons-learned findings from Post-Implementation Reviews owned by the Project Governance & Readiness Lead are incorporated into MDO's engineering standards and review checklists.</p>
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<p dir = "auto"><strong>Value Engineering & Technical Optimisation</strong></p>
<p dir = "auto">• Lead and facilitate value engineering workshops during study phases to identify opportunities to optimise capital cost, improve operability, reduce schedule risk, and enhance long-term asset performance.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Challenge scope creep and over-engineering in EPCM designs, promoting fit-for-purpose solutions aligned with MDO's capital efficiency objectives.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Identify and recommend technical alternatives and trade-off options for Director – Studies & Delivery consideration during key study decision points.</p>
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<p dir = "auto"><strong>Stakeholder Collaboration</strong></p>
<p dir = "auto">• Work closely with the Study Lead to coordinate engineering review activities within the study schedule, ensuring technical assurance reviews are completed without delaying study milestones.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Collaborate with the Director – Project Controls & Readiness on engineering-driven cost and schedule risks, ensuring these are reflected in project risk registers and contingency models.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Liaise with MDO's Operations, ESG, and Exploration functions to ensure engineering designs appropriately reflect operational requirements and environmental commitments.</p>
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<p dir = "auto"><strong>Team Leadership & Capability Building</strong></p>
<p dir = "auto">• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers and technical coordinators within the Studies & Delivery team.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Contribute to the continuous improvement of MDO's technical assurance processes, review checklists, and engineering standards library.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Mentor Omani talent and contribute to national capacity-building objectives in line with MDO's Omanization commitments.</p>
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<p dir = "auto"><strong>Stage-Gate Role of Engineering Lead</strong></p>
<p dir = "auto">G0–1 (Concept/Scoping) Consulted – provides technical input on concept engineering assumptions, infrastructure requirements, and operability considerations during scoping.</p>
<p dir = "auto">G2 (Pre-Feasibility) Responsible – validates throughput and metallurgical recovery assumptions in PFS, reviews engineering design inputs, and provides technical assurance sign-off for Gate 2.</p>
<p dir = "auto">G3 (Feasibility/Investment Decision) Responsible – leads 30/60/90% design reviews during DFS and FEED, approves engineering standards compliance, validates capital cost estimate basis, and leads technical due diligence for Gate 3 FID.</p>
<p dir = "auto">G4 (Execution/Construction) Responsible – provides ongoing engineering assurance during execution, reviews IFC packages, monitors EPCM engineering quality against MDO approved standards, and ensures operability and constructability requirements are met.</p>
<p dir = "auto">G5 (Handover/Closure) Consulted – reviews as-built documentation, manages integration of engineering lessons learned into the database, and validates technical handover completeness.</p>
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<p dir = "auto"><strong>MINIMUM QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE :</strong></p>
<p dir = "auto">• Bachelor's degree in Process, Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, or Mining Engineering; Master's degree preferred.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Chartered Engineer status or equivalent professional engineering registration is highly desirable.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• 15+ years of experience in engineering roles within the mining, minerals processing, or heavy industrial sectors, with a minimum of 5 years in technical assurance, engineering management, or owner-side engineering roles.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Demonstrated experience conducting 30/60/90% engineering design reviews across multiple disciplines including process, mechanical, electrical, civil/structural, and instrumentation.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Proven experience validating plant throughput and metallurgical recovery assumptions and reviewing testwork programmes.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Experience managing and approving engineering standards frameworks applicable to mining and processing plant projects.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Track record leading technical due diligence for project financing, JV transactions, or Board investment submissions.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Experience managing engineering lessons-learned processes and integrating findings into future study and project phases.</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Strong understanding of international engineering codes and standards, capital cost estimation, and EPCM contracting models.</p>
<p dir = "auto"><strong>KEY COMPETENCIES:</strong></p>
<p dir = "auto">• Engineering design review at 30/60/90% milestones across multiple disciplines</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Validation of plant throughput and metallurgical recovery assumptions</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Operability, maintainability, and constructability assessment</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Management and approval of MDO engineering standards</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Leadership of technical due diligence for JVs and project financing</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Engineering lessons-learned database management and integration</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Value engineering facilitation and fit-for-purpose design optimisation</p>
<p dir = "auto">• Technical writing and engineering reporting for executive and Board audiences</p>
<p dir = "auto">• High commitment to HSE, engineering integrity, and ethical governance principles</p>
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<p dir = "auto">This position requires a sound understanding of mining project economics, capital cost drivers, and the commercial and technical implications of engineering decisions on project value, feasibility, and long-term asset performance.</p>