Albemarle
Area Project Manager – Non-Process Infrastructure (NPI)
Kings Mountain, North Carolina, United States of America · Senior · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 30 days ago
Project ManagementForecastingProcurementLeadershipGeotechnical EngineeringPrimavera P6OSHA
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Responsibilities
- Own scope, schedule, budget, and risk for all NPI projects supporting the Mine, Concentrator, and Tailings areas across FEL2-IFC, construction, commissioning, and handover.
- Develop execution plans, WBS, and integrated schedules aligned to the overall Kings Mountain master schedule and critical path.
- Maintain risk and issue registers, drive timely resolution/escalation, and lead NPI stage-gate readiness reviews to ensure FEL maturity before sanction and execution.
- Lead greenfield hard-rock mining infrastructure delivery: access/haul roads, earthworks, ROM pad interfaces, and overburden/stockpile enabling works.
- Translate concentrator needs (crushing, grinding, separation/flotation, dewatering) into coordinated NPI scope: power, water, compressed air, reagent/utility areas, and building envelope.
- Manage mine-to-plant and plant interface points with process, OEMs, and EPCM: equipment pads/foundations, utility tie-ins, corridors, constructability, and commissioning utility readiness.
- Engineering & Design Oversight
- Ensure all designs incorporate safety-in-design principles and satisfy requirements identified through HAZID, HAZOP, and constructability reviews. Ensure all open action items are formally closed prior to IFC issuance.
- Participate in or lead value engineering exercises to optimize NPI capital cost without compromising operability, maintainability, or regulatory compliance.
- Manage interfaces with NPI contractors/utility providers and internal stakeholders; ensure scopes, RFPs, contracts, and changes capture technical and schedule requirements.
Requirements
- Working knowledge of concentrator equipment installation interfaces (crushing, grinding, flotation/separation, thickening/filtration, conveying) and associated utility/sequencing impacts.
- Education
- PE strongly preferred
- PMP a plus.
- Experience
- 15+ years capital project leadership, primarily in mining, mineral processing, or heavy industrial environments.
- Proven delivery of infrastructure for at least one greenfield/brownfield mine development or major concentrator project
- EPCM/owner-side delivery experience highly valued.
- Demonstrated NPI delivery in a mining context (earthworks/roads, HV power, water/stormwater, buildings, multi-utility distribution) within a stage-gate framework (FEL1-FEL3 / Class 5-2 estimates).
- Experience executing government-funded or incentive-supported capital projects (e.g., federal/state grants, DOE programs), including compliance, reporting, and audit readiness preferred but not required.
- Experience in the lithium, borates, potash, or other specialty minerals industry is a plus given the Kings Mountain project's critical mineral mandate.
Nice to have
- Coordinate tailings infrastructure interfaces (ancillary works, return water, decant/pumping, access) with geotechnical and environmental teams.
- Direct EPCM and specialty consultants across civil/structural, mechanical, electrical, I&C, and architectural disciplines for NPI scope.
- Review/approve key deliverables (site layout, grading, foundations/structures, electrical single-lines, underground utilities) and guide routing decisions to ensure constructability and operability.
- Ensure all open action items are formally closed prior to IFC issuance.
- ensure scopes, RFPs, contracts, and changes capture technical and schedule requirements.
- Ensure compliance with MSHA/OSHA requirements and track closure of hazard review and PHA action items prior to construction.
- B.S. in Mechanical, Civil, Electrical, or Chemical Engineering (Mechanical/Civil preferred for mining and concentrator infrastructure scope).
Skills
- Knowledge of MSHA requirements and strong proficiency with schedule/cost tools (Primavera P6, MS Project, or equivalent).
- Leadership & Interpersonal
- Communicate complex project status and risk clearly
- operates with an owner's mindset to protect schedule, cost, quality, and operability.
- Specific Interface Responsibilities
- Permitting: maintain real-time permit status for NPI construction
- ensure sequencing complies with conditions and avoids violations.
- Benefits of Joining Albemarle
- Competitive compensation
- Comprehensive benefits package
Compensation
- Competitive compensation
Company info
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