Project Manager - MET

Project Manager - MET

Location:

Metallurgical Complex (MET) - Columbus, MT

Schedule:

5x2, 4x3 9hr Days

Job Responsibilities and Duties:

At Sibanye-Stillwater, the Project Manager - Met leads the safe, disciplined delivery of capital, maintenance, infrastructure, sustainability, and operational improvement projects across the Metallurgical Complex. The role converts approved business needs into clearly defined scopes, plans, budgets, schedules, and execution strategies; coordinates Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, contractors, and regulatory stakeholders; and remains accountable from concept and authorization through commissioning, handover, and closeout. Projects must achieve approved safety, environmental, quality, cost, schedule, operability, and reliability outcomes while minimizing disruption to ongoing plant operations.

The Project Manager's primary duties are:

- Lead projects in accordance with site safety standards, environmental requirements, permits, applicable codes, and change-management protocols; stop work and require corrective action when conditions are unsafe or noncompliant.

- Partner with Operations and Maintenance to define project need, intended benefits, requirements, boundaries, assumptions, alternatives, and acceptance criteria.

- Develop or coordinate feasibility assessments, scopes of work, design criteria, cost estimates, economic analyses, schedules, execution plans, procurement strategies, and Authorization for Expenditure documentation.

- Establish project baselines and governance, including roles, decision rights, stage-gate reviews, document control, change control, risk registers, reporting cadence, and escalation thresholds.

- Manage a portfolio of projects of varying size, complexity, and duration and recommend priorities based on safety, compliance, operational risk, value, resource capacity, and business need.

- Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering and review drawings, specifications, calculations, estimates, and construction methods for technical adequacy, code compliance, constructability, operability, and maintainability.

- Prepare bid packages, support contractor selection and contract negotiations, clarify deliverables, and administer contractor performance against safety, quality, schedule, cost, and documentation expectations.

- Coordinate labor, materials, equipment, outages, access, permits, inspections, testing, and specialty support with affected departments and external parties.

- Direct execution from planning through construction and commissioning, resolving constraints and coordinating work to limit operational disruption and protect critical infrastructure.

- Monitor and communicate actual performance against approved scope, schedule, budget, forecast, quality, and benefits; analyze variances; maintain accurate commitments and accruals; and implement recovery or corrective plans.

- Lead cross-functional project teams, set clear expectations, facilitate decisions, coach contributors, and maintain productive relationships with site leaders, employees, contractors, consultants, vendors, and agencies.

- Provide concise, timely project reporting on progress, forecast, milestones, risks, decisions, changes, and outcomes to project sponsors and stakeholders.

- Complete commissioning and handover with Operations and Maintenance, including training, operating and maintenance procedures, preventive-maintenance updates, spare parts, warranties, as-built drawings, asset records, financial closeout, lessons learned, and verification of acceptance criteria.

- Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications and Skills:

- Sound judgment, systems thinking, problem sensitivity, root-cause analysis, and timely decision-making under changing conditions.

- Leadership and influence across functions without relying solely on direct authority; ability to establish accountability, resolve conflict, and facilitate decisions.

- Ability to interpret and review engineering drawings, specifications, contracts, estimates, schedules, cost reports, and regulatory or permitting requirements.

- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and project scheduling, cost-control, document-management, and CMMS or enterprise systems.

- Capital budgeting, cost estimating, forecasting, accruals, economic evaluation, and asset capitalization/retirement processes.

- General knowledge of collective bargaining agreements and their implications for project planning and execution.

Education & Experience:

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, project management, or a closely related discipline; substantial experience demonstrating the ability to perform the required duties of the role may be considered in lieu of formal education.

- Seven years of progressively responsible engineering, construction, maintenance, or capital-project experience in mining, mineral processing, metals, heavy manufacturing, or a comparable industrial environment.

- Demonstrated experience managing and successful completion of multidisciplinary projects through planning, design, budgeting, procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout, including responsibility for scope, schedule, budget, contractors and risk with minimal supervision.

- Competent in using Microsoft Office, MS Project or equivalent, and AutoCAD. Knowledge of standard drafting procedures including the ability to interpret drawings and specifications.

Preferred:

- Five or more years of relevant project experience in an OSHA regulated operating processing plant, smelter, refinery, foundry, or similar continuous industrial facility.

- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or comparable project-management credential.

- Professional Engineer licensure or Engineer Intern certification, where applicable to the discipline and assignment.

- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical engineering.

- Experience with process flow systems, structural modifications, reliability improvement, cost modeling, statistical analysis, forecasting, and capital governance.

- Competent in utilizing JD Edwards or equivalent CMMS.

Sibanye-Stillwater is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment decisions at Sibanye-Stillwater are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation or preference, marital or family status, disability, genetic information, age, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.