Usare
Project Manager - Site & Infrastructure
Hybrid (El Paso, Texas, US) · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 26 days ago
Project ManagementBudgetingSupply ChainLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingGeotechnical EngineeringConstruction Management
About the role
- The Project Manager - Site & Infrastructure serves as the owner's representative for infrastructure development activities supporting the Round Top Project.
Responsibilities
- Manage infrastructure workstreams including access roads, grading, utilities, water infrastructure, drainage, and civil works.
- Support permitting activities and interface with regulatory agencies, including TCEQ, GLO, and other stakeholders.
- Develop and manage project schedules, budgets, forecasts, resource plans, and performance metrics.
- Monitor project progress, identify risks and schedule impacts, and implement corrective actions to maintain project objectives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related technical field.
- 10+ years of project management experience supporting mining, industrial, infrastructure, energy, or heavy civil projects.
- Experience managing contractors, consultants, permitting activities, and multidisciplinary project teams.
- Strong knowledge of project planning, scheduling, budgeting, risk management, and project controls.
- Ability to travel up to 50%.
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Nice to have
- PMP, PE, or other relevant project management certification.
- Experience supporting mining, mineral processing, or large-scale industrial development projects.
- Familiarity with Texas permitting processes and regulatory agencies, including TCEQ and GLO.
- Experience supporting projects through feasibility, permitting, and pre-construction phases.
- Establishing a rare earth magnet supply chain is a big undertaking - and getting there is a team effort.
- We communicate openly, work together and challenge each other in pursuit of our goals.
- With every step we take we learn and get better.
- Position Summary The Project Manager - Site & Infrastructure serves as the owner's representative for infrastructure development activities supporting the Round Top Project.
Skills
- If our task was a simple one, it would already be done.
Company info
- We are on a mission to become a leading supplier of critical materials that enable the green energy and technology revolution.
- Our materials and technologies are required for the electric vehicle, green energy, consumer electronics, and defense industries, and our battery grade lithium and tech metals are needed for chipsets, semiconductors, and 5G.
- We have a substantial interest in the Round Top, Heavy Rare Earth, Lithium and Critical Minerals deposit in West Texas.
- We have also developed the United States' first rare earth and critical minerals processing facility and we own the only scalable, sintered neo-magnet manufacturing system in the Western Hemisphere.
- By developing this fully integrated, US-based "mine-to-magnet" critical mineral supply chain, we are poised to become the leading domestic supplier to these industries.
- What you can expect: At USA Rare Earth, we are pioneers and problem solvers, technologists and team players.
- Together, we: Build Solutions: If our task was a simple one, it would already be done.
- We are creative and solution-oriented, and we think outside the box to solve important problems.
- We know that a range of expertise and technologies is needed for success, and we work across sectors and alongside customers to deliver world-class solutions in sustainable ways.
- Deliver Quality: When we do things, we do them well.
- We believe that top-tier quality leads to industry competitiveness and we hold ourselves to the highest quality standards.
- We move fast when executing, but safety, quality, and excellence always come first.
- Lead responsibly: We have a responsibility to the planet, our consumers, our country, and each other.
- We put safety at the center of all we do, take accountability for our actions, incorporate sustainable practices in our processes and act with the financial best interest of our investors and consumers in mind.
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