This role will suit someone who is confident operating in ambiguity, comfortable facilitating alignment (without losing objectivity), and experienced producing decision-quality study outcomes for senior stakeholders.
The Opportunity
As Study Manager, you will establish and lead the early-phase study approach—bringing disciplined study and project management practices to test strategic fit, technical viability, value, risk, and execution pathways before material capital is committed. You’ll work across a complex, evolving environment with multiple internal and external interfaces, coordinating multidisciplinary inputs and ensuring study recommendations are supported by clear evidence, transparent assumptions, and fit-for-purpose governance.
Key responsibilities
Health, safety and environment
- Provide visible leadership and ensure study delivery aligns with HSE requirements, policies and critical risk controls.
- Define the study strategy, scope, objectives, deliverables, basis of study and execution plan
- Lead an integrated team to deliver study outputs safely, on time and within budget
- Build and maintain realistic schedules, resource plans, budgets and forecasts (including forward estimates for subsequent phases)
- Develop commercially relevant, decision-ready business cases assessing:
- options and trade-offs
- costs, schedule, value drivers and key assumptions
- risks, opportunities and sustainability impacts
- execution and implementation pathways
- Structure and facilitate workshops and working sessions for:
- opportunity framing
- optioneering / range analysis
- trade-off decision making
- Ensure options are evaluated consistently and recommendations are traceable to agreed criteria.
- Maintain risk, opportunity, assumptions and decision registers
- Coordinate peer reviews / technical reviews / independent assurance and close out actions
- Provide concise reporting on progress, cost, schedule, risk, decisions and required interventions
- Engage across operational, technical, commercial and corporate stakeholder groups
- Build strong working relationships with senior leaders and external parties
- Lead decision forums and stakeholder workshops to create alignment while preserving constructive challenge
- Develop scopes of work, support procurement, and manage consultants/service providers to meet safety, quality, cost and schedule expectations.
To be successful in this role, you will bring a strong blend of study leadership, stakeholder influence, and delivery discipline.
Essential
- Demonstrated experience delivering early-phase Concept and/or Pre-Feasibility studies in mining, minerals processing, heavy industry, manufacturing or comparable sectors
- Strong study/project management capability with an ability to lead multidisciplinary inputs
- Proven experience managing complex stakeholder groups, including senior executives and external parties
- Well-developed written and verbal communication skills (reports, executive papers, presentations, workshops)
- Relevant tertiary qualification (engineering, metallurgy, chemistry, project management, business or related) or extensive equivalent industry experience
- Willingness and ability to travel to site as required
- 15+ years’ experience across resources / heavy industry development, studies or major projects
- Exposure to complex processing operations (e.g., refineries, concentrators, smelters or similar)
- Formal project/study management training and/or recognised certification
- Experience facilitating structured processes such as range analysis, opportunity framing and optioneering
- Risk management / process safety / technical assurance experience
- Financial/economic evaluation capability (investment concepts, valuation/NPV modelling, business case assessment)
- Location Perth (Hybrid)
- Roster Monday to Friday
- Contract term 6–12 months initially (project-driven; extension possible)
- Start date ASAP
- Rate Approx. $150/hr + super(negotiable for the right person)
