Senior Project Engineer - Oakville

Insight Global; Oakville; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking an Embedded Project Engineer for a 12-month contract based in Oakville, Ontario. The role acts as the owner’s day-to-day representative within an Engineering Service Provider, ensuring progress, schedules, costs, and deliverables are on track for a major greenfield mining development.

The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of mining or heavy-industry project experience, plus strong owner-side engineering background and multidisciplinary coordination skills.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering/project engineering experience in mining, mineral processing, heavy industrial, or large-scale capital projects.
• Experience in owner-side engineering, EPC/EPCM, or integrated project team environments.
• Experience coordinating with Engineering Service Providers, EPC/EPCM firms or consultants.
• Experience tracking schedules, deliverables, costs, forecasts, metrics, and technical commitments.
• Ability to identify bottlenecks and escalation points to prevent delays.
• Strong senior-level communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as owner’s day-to-day representative within the engineering provider.
• Proactively monitor engineering progress, schedules, costs, deliverables, metrics and provider performance.
• Identify bottlenecks and information needs that could impact milestones; escalate as needed.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering activities across mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, and process engineering.
• Support in-office Oakville collaboration with the Engineering Service Provider’s team.
• Ensure progress toward procurement, construction, and execution readiness.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Project scheduling

Cost tracking

Stakeholder management

Owner-side engineering

Multidisciplinary coordination

Progress measurement

Effective communication

Site collaboration

Canadian licensure

Education

P.Eng designation in Canada

Saskatchewan APEGS registration/eligibility

Job description

Job Description

Insight Global is hiring an Embedded Project Engineer for an initial 12-month contract with potential for extension, based in Oakville, Ontario. This is an in-office position embedded directly within an Engineering Service Provider’s Oakville office, supporting the site surface and processing scope of a major greenfield mining development. The Project Engineer will serve as the owner’s day-to-day representative within the engineering provider, proactively monitoring engineering progress, schedules, costs, deliverables, metrics, technical commitments, and provider performance. This individual will identify bottlenecks and potential delays before they impact project milestones, determine what information or decisions are required from the owner, and escal… etc. Travel may be required depending on project needs.

Skills and Requirements

• 10+ years of engineering/project engineering experience within mining, mineral processing, heavy industrial, or comparable large-scale capital projects
• Experience working in an owner-side engineering, Owner’s Engineer, Integrated Project Team, EPC/EPCM, or comparable project environment
• Demonstrated experience working directly with Engineering Service Providers, EPC/EPCM firms, consultants, or other external engineering organizations
• Experience tracking engineering schedules, deliverables, costs, forecasts, metrics, and technical commitments
• Proven ability to proactively identify engineering bottlenecks, schedule risks, missing information, and dependencies before they impact major milestones
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering activities across areas such as mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, and process engineering
• Ability to identify and escalation owner-side decisions or information requirements that are preventing an engineering provider from progressing its work
• Strong experience monitoring engineering-provider performance and driving accountability against project commitments
• Senior-level communication and stakeholder management skills, with the credibility to challenge experienced engineers and project stakeholders
• Ability and willingness to work in person in the Engineering Service Provider’s Oakville office
• Direct mining or mineral-processing project experience
• Experience supporting site surface and/or mineral-processing engineering scope
• Experience on a large-scale greenfield capital project
• Previous experience serving as an embedded owner/client representative within an EPC/EPCM or engineering consultant’s office
• Experience coordinating multiple engineering disciplines and work packages simultaneously
• Experience with engineering progress measurement, reporting, forecasting, cost control, and schedule management
• Experience progressing engineering deliverables through design toward procurement, construction, and execution readiness
• Experience working with geographically distributed owner, engineering, vendor, and project teams
• P.Eng. designation in Canada
• Saskatchewan APEGS registration or eligibility

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [e-mail].