Technical Manager
Donlin Gold LLC
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Anchorage • Alaska • United States
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Salary
💰 $150,000 per year
About the role
- Provide overall technical leadership for the project, ensuring engineering designs and technical solutions are safe, fit-for-purpose, constructible, and aligned with long-term operational objectives
- Own and enforce project technical standards, design criteria, and engineering decision frameworks
- Serve as a technical advisor to the Project Director and senior leadership team, providing clear, data-driven recommendations on technical risk, cost, schedule, and execution trade-offs
- Support development and maintenance of integrated project execution plans, engineering schedules, and technical budgets, ensuring consistency across all EPCm execution strategies
- Identify, assess, and manage technical and execution risks, develop mitigation strategies and contingency plans, and lead technical risk escalation and resolution processes
- Ensure accurate documentation of technical decisions, assumptions, risks, and lessons learned, including formal decision registers and interface management documentation
- Establish and govern technical execution frameworks across all six EPCm teams, including definition of common design criteria, interface management requirements, and performance expectations
- Set and monitor EPCm technical performance KPIs, and hold EPCm teams accountable for engineering quality, schedule adherence, and data maturity
- Act as the primary technical integrator across all six EPCm teams, ensuring consistent execution strategies, aligned assumptions, and coordinated deliverables, with authority to challenge and resolve misalignment
- Manage technical, schedule, and data interfaces between EPCm packages to eliminate gaps, overlaps, or misalignment
- Coordinate technical change management across EPCm contractors, ensuring impacts to cost, schedule, risk, and scope are clearly identified, evaluated, and controlled
- Oversee and coordinate technical interfaces related to logistics, materials movement, and construction sequencing across EPCm packages, ensuring engineering deliverables are aligned with overall materials movement strategies
- Ensure engineering designs account for transportation constraints, fabrication strategies, seasonal access, and site execution realities
- Work closely with logistics, construction, and operations teams to ensure engineering solutions support efficient field execution, including constructability and installation sequencing considerations
- Lead formal constructability reviews and ensure engineering designs support safe, efficient, and practical field execution during construction and commissioning
- Collaborate closely with project controls, procurement, construction, environmental, permitting, and operations teams
- Support engagement with regulators, partners, and external stakeholders as required
- Lead and mentor senior, multi-discipline technical professionals across owner and EPCm organizations, driving alignment across competing priorities and stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mining Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field
- Minimum of 15 years of progressive experience in technical or engineering management roles on large-scale mining, energy, or heavy industrial projects
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple EPC, EPCm, or major engineering contractors simultaneously
- Experience working on projects in Alaska, remote, or logistically complex environments is strongly preferred
- Professional Engineer (PE) or equivalent professional certification is preferred
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
technical leadershipengineering designrisk managementproject execution planningtechnical standardsinterface managementconstructability reviewsengineering qualitydata maturityEPCm execution strategies
Soft Skills
communicationleadershipmentoringcollaborationdecision-makingproblem-solvingstakeholder engagementorganizational skillsdata-driven recommendationsalignment across priorities
Certifications
Professional Engineer (PE)Bachelor’s degree in Mining EngineeringBachelor’s degree in Civil EngineeringBachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering