Project Manager - Tailings

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WSP Australia is seeking a Project Manager, Tailings to join its Mine Tailings team in Perth, full-time and onsite. You’ll deliver tailings and mine waste projects for major mining clients, balancing project delivery with client engagement while managing budgets, schedules, risk and quality across multiple projects. You’ll plan and direct field investigations, lead tailings storage facility design from concept through delivery, and collaborate with specialists across tailings, water and geotechnical disciplines. The role suits someone with consulting experience who can win work and manage competing priorities. To apply, tailor your CV to show program leadership, client relationships, and measurable outcomes in cost, schedule and safety, and convey enthusiasm for WSP’s growth and flexible, supportive culture.

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

This role will see you enhance your capabilities and the reputation of WSP’s Mine Tailings team. You will collaborate with talented professionals working on iconic projects to drive future ready outcomes that will benefit clients and communities.

At WSP you’ll find the scale and reach you need to do the kind of work the world needs – and the culture and people that make it the best work of your life.

What you’ll do:

At WSP, we partner with major mining clients across Australia to deliver sustainable, practical, and technically robust solutions. You’ll join a team of tailings, water, geotechnical and mine engineering specialists who are passionate about helping clients manage mine waste safely, efficiently, and responsibly.

This role is ideal for someone with consulting experience who thrives in a varied environment, balancing project delivery, client engagement, and contributing to proposals and business development. You’ll manage small to medium-sized projects, with opportunities to grow your leadership and commercial skills as part of an established national practice.

• Deliver a program of projects for key clients through management of key stakeholders and contractors, focused on tailings and mine waste projects.
• Manage budgets, schedules, risk, reporting, and quality across multiple projects.
• Manage work programs to deliver engineering services with respect to mine waste management.
• Support multiple concurrent projects across the entire life cycle, including design management, tendering, contract administration, financial management, project scheduling and risk management. 
• Build strong client relationships and play a key role in identifying, bidding, and winning new work.
• Plan and direct field investigations and other tasks to meet project requirements.
• Lead the design of tailings storage facilities and other earthen structures, from conceptual through to delivery stages.

About You

• Bachelor degree in Civil/Geotechnical/Mining Engineering or project management qualifications are desirable.
• Proven project management experience including managing multiple coinciding programs with internal and external stakeholders with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Experience in tailings, mine waste, water infrastructure, or civil engineering (mining sector preferred).
• An appetite for client engagement, proposals, and contributing to work winning.
• A collaborative, proactive mindset and a passion for delivering high-quality outcomes.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work independently and within multi-disciplinary project teams.
• Demonstrated commitment to providing high quality service to clients within budget and time constraints.

Why WSP's Mine Advisory team?

• Work with respected industry leaders in Mine Advisory and access deep technical expertise across WSP’s global network.
• A blend of project responsibility, client exposure, and business development opportunities; ideal for someone wanting to grow towards Project Manager roles.
• Flexible working arrangements and a supportive, high-performing culture.
• Opportunities to work on impactful projects that improve safety, sustainability, and performance in the mining sector.

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