Senior Project Director

Combined Selection Group Ltd; Toronto; On-site; CAD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Combined Selection Group Ltd in Greater Toronto, Ontario, seeks a Senior Project Director with Mining & Metals EPCM experience to lead a major mining project through execution, ensuring technical, commercial and operational performance.

You will manage a multidisciplinary team, oversee the engineering handover, and navigate cold weather environments in Canada while delivering on schedule and budget.

Qualifications

• Senior project leadership experience in mining EPC/EPCM environments.
• Hands-on oversight of engineering handover.
• Experience delivering large, complex mining projects through execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead large cross-functional project teams and subcontractors.
• Oversee team performance, ensure quality and timely delivery.
• Establish vision, set expectations and accountability across the project.
• Oversee full project scope including planning, directing, supervising and controlling technical, fiscal and administrative functions.
• Manage execution, coordination and regular progress reviews/controls.
• Interpret project schedule to identify trends and take corrective actions.

Skills

Senior leadership

EPCM experience

Mining industry

Job description

Project Director - Mining & Metals - EPCM - Greater Toronto

Are you a Senior Project Director with EPC/EPCM experience in the mining industry? Have you been responsible for overseeing the engineering handover to construction? Do you have experience in cold weather environments? CSG Talent is partnering with a leading international engineering and project delivery organisation to recruit an experienced Project Director for a major mining EPCM project in Ontario, Canada. This is a senior leadership opportunity for an accomplished project professional who has successfully delivered large, complex mining projects through the execution phase. You will lead a multidisciplinary team and assume overall responsibility for the project's technical, commercial, financial and operational performance.

Key responsibilities

• Leading large cross‑functional internal and external project teams and potentially subcontractors or other PMs.
• Overseeing, motivating, and monitoring the performance of the team, ensuring quality and timeliness of assignments and roles, and addresses any performance gaps.
• Creating strong collaborative team environment by establishing common vision, setting clear expectations and accountability
• Demonstrating capability of overseeing large‑scale projects with responsibility for the full performance of the project (planning, directing, supervising and controlling all technical, fiscal and administrative functions).
• Manages execution, coordination, and implements regular reviews/controls to track project progress.
• Interprets and understands all of the key elements of the project schedule to identify adverse trends and take correction action.
• Applies forward planning with schedule to resource the project appropriately.

Experience required

• Senior level project experience with a mining EPC/EPCM.
• Cold weather experience.
• Hands on experience of personally being responsible for overseeing the engineering handover.

If you're a proven Project Director with deep Mining/EPCM delivery expertise and you're open to a senior leadership move in Canada