Director: Mining - Midrand at WSP in Africa

Guiding Principles of Role:

• To support the MD Earth and Environment and the Global Director of Mining working toward an overarching Africa Mining Strategy, the Director of Mining is accountable for the strategic direction and operational delivery of Mining in Africa.
• Within a devolved and empowered leadership model, Director of Mining will be granted autonomy to make appropriate decisions to meet market and business needs, working closely with other Global Mining Leads, Managing Directors and Executive Committee members.

Key Competencies:

The key competencies in this role is that the person needs to be a crediable mining person with an industry profile who understands the clients needs and has the ability to match these with technically competant solutions.

• Understand the Mining Market – have a good knowledge of the Africa mining market as well as understand the commodity cycles. Can use this information to align with Global and regional mining companis strategies so as to lead the Africa mining buiness.
• Clients – be well know by mining clients through exisiting relationships and able to engage with their leadership so as to determine appropriate strategies to support their requirements.  Be aware and collaborate with the Global Mining client programme.
• Technical compentancies – Understand the full mining cycle and how WSP can assist in the full mine life cycle.
• Leadership – acknowledged leader in mining with a positive external market profile. Demonstrates the desire to constantly improve, motivate and encourage others; lead and implement change programmes; inspiring colleagues and drives an innovative and supportive culture.  Acts as a catalyst for change.
• Financial/Commercial Acumen – Undestand how to develop competant winning proposal that match the clintes needs and be prepared to walk away from proposals/client if they done match the companies strategic Green Transition, technical excellence or create a potential reputational risk.  Needs a thorough undertanding of financial metrics and commercial principles that drive profitability of Mining projects.
• People leadership – have the ability to encourage and hire mining talent so as to have a successful mining consultancy team.
• Innovation and Technical excellence  – aligning with global best pratices via Mining PAN’s, researching and developing new engineering, modelling and delivery techniques; challenges the status quo.
• Quality control – follows the rgional and Global quality control systems randing from ISO to internal standards and approvals associate with tailings reviews, dam break analysis and ore evaluation assessments.
• Communication - demonstrates an ability to communicate effectively and uses own knowledge and experience to support and coach others as required.  Actively champions sharing knowledge, ideas and intelligence.  Strong presentation skills, able to lead and facilitate workshops, training sessions and one to one learning.  Influential and persuasive internally and externally; encourages open dialogue and feedback within the Africa business.
• Team leadership and player - works collaboratively and consultatively; leads and develops a culture of team working across the Africa entities, UK businesses as well as the Global Mining Business.
• Externally facing – maintains high level external market profile through continuous engagement and thought leadership articles.

Qualifications and Experience:

• BSc Eng / BEng / BTech / BSc (Hons)/ Relevant bachelor’s qualification (Hons); Advanced Tertiary Qualification advantageous (e.g. Masters, PhD)
• Registration: Professional Registration dependent on stream (e.g ECSA, EAPSA, PMP)                   
• Typically 15+ years’ experience; Including 8+ years Leadership & 8+ years relevant stream experience