About this role
Associate or Senior Associate Management Consultant – Mining and Metals
Worley Consulting is seeking an Associate or Senior Associate Management Consultant – Mining and Metals to join our growing Advisory business across APAC.
This is an exciting opportunity for a consulting professional with 8-15 years of experience who is passionate about helping mining and resource sector customers solve their most complex strategic challenges. Working closely with senior customer stakeholders, you will advise on growth strategies, investment decisions, major capital projects, portfolio optimisation, market positioning, and business transformation initiatives across the mining and metals value chain.
Unlike traditional strategy consulting roles, this position offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of strategy and delivery . Leveraging Worley’s global technical, project delivery, and industry expertise, you’ll help customers shape major investment decisions and then support the successful execution of those strategies through some of the world’s largest and most complex projects.
We’re looking for a commercially minded seller-doer who enjoys building trusted customer relationships, identifying opportunities, winning work, and delivering high-quality consulting outcomes. You’ll work across multidisciplinary teams and collaborate with specialists from around the world to help customers navigate uncertainty and create long-term value.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and deliver strategic, commercial, and operational advisory engagements for mining, metals, and critical minerals customers.
- Partner closely with customer leadership teams to define growth strategies, evaluate investment opportunities, and solve complex business challenges.
- Support customers across the full project lifecycle, from strategic planning and investment decisions through to project development and delivery.
- Develop business cases, market assessments, portfolio strategies, investment evaluations, due diligence studies, and development roadmaps.
- Lead analytical workstreams and synthesise complex technical, commercial, and market information into clear, executive-level recommendations.
- Facilitate workshops, strategy sessions, and stakeholder engagements with senior executives, investors, government representatives, and project teams.
- Build and maintain trusted client relationships, acting as a strategic advisor across multiple engagements and opportunities.
- Contribute to account management and business development activities, helping identify, pursue, and win new consulting opportunities.
- Develop proposals, presentations, and thought leadership that strengthen Worley Consulting’s market presence and customer relationships.
- Work collaboratively with Worley’s global consulting, engineering, and project delivery teams to bring integrated solutions to customers.
- Mentor and support junior consultants while contributing to the growth of our Advisory capability across APAC.
- Help shape and enhance consulting methodologies, tools, and intellectual property within the Mining Advisory practice.
What You Will Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Mining, Metallurgy, Economics, Commerce, Finance, Business, or a related discipline.
- Approximately 8-15 years of professional experience within management consulting, strategy consulting, mining advisory, engineering consulting, corporate strategy, or project advisory environments.
- Demonstrated experience supporting mining and resource sector customers on strategic, commercial, or investment-related decisions.
- Strong understanding of the mining industry, including mining operations, processing, metals, critical minerals, and broader resource value chains.
- Experience working on large-scale, complex projects and initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and disciplines.
- Strong consulting and problem-solving skills, with the ability to structure ambiguity and develop practical, commercially focused recommendations.
- Proven ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders through clear communication, facilitation, and relationship management.
- Experience developing business cases, growth strategies, market assessments, investment analyses, operating model improvements, or major project studies.
- Demonstrated business development capability and a seller-doer mindset, with experience supporting proposals, account growth, and opportunity development.
- Strong commercial and financial acumen, with the ability to balance strategic thinking with practical implementation considerations.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including preparation of executive presentations and board-level materials.
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, with exposure to digital, analytics, and AI-enabled tools considered advantageous.
Why Worley Consulting?
At Worley Consulting, we help customers make better decisions and turn those decisions into successful outcomes. Our consultants work on some of the mining sector’s most significant and complex challenges, advising customers on growth, investment, decarbonisation, critical minerals, portfolio strategy, and project development.
What makes us different is our ability to connect strategy with execution . Through Worley’s global network of consultants, engineers, and project delivery specialists, we help customers move seamlessly from strategy and investment decisions to project implementation and operational success.
You’ll have the opportunity to work on high-profile assignments across APAC and globally, partnering with leading mining companies, investors, developers, and government organisations. You’ll collaborate with experts across multiple sectors and disciplines while building deep, trusted relationships with customers and helping shape the future of the resources industry.
Building on our past. Ready for the future.
Worley is a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources experts. We partner with customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their assets. We’re bridging two worlds, moving towards more sustainable energy sources while helping provide the energy, chemicals and resources needed now.
We are 50,000 strong and work in more than 45 countries. Over more than a century, we have built a reputation for delivering complex projects safely and sustainably. Today, we continue to support our customers as they respond to the dual challenge of meeting increasing demand while transitioning to a lower-carbon future.
Benefits
We provide a diverse and inclusive work environment and offer a range of benefits to support your professional and personal wellbeing, including:
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
- Competitive salary and incentive programs.
- Career development and global mobility opportunities.
- Professional membership and training support.
- Paid parental leave and inclusive family support benefits.
- Employee assistance and wellbeing programs.
- The opportunity to work alongside some of the industry’s leading consulting, engineering, and project delivery professionals.
Moving forward together
We’re building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and are heard. We know that diverse teams perform better, create stronger outcomes for our customers, and help us deliver a more sustainable world.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and encourage candidates who may not meet every requirement to apply. If you’re excited about this role and can bring relevant experience and capability, we’d love to hear from you.
If you're an experienced consulting professional who enjoys building customer relationships, developing business opportunities, and helping solve some of the mining industry’s most important strategic and investment challenges, we'd love to hear from you. Join us and help our customers move from strategy to successful delivery.