Senior Manager - Mineral Economics / Consulting

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Job Description

AECOM is seeking a Senior Manager – Mineral Economics / Consulting to join our West Region and support the financial and strategic evaluation of mining projects across the full project lifecycle. This role combines strong analytical capability with commercial insight to help clients make informed investment, development, and operational decisions. The position offers the opportunity to work on complex, multidisciplinary mining engagements, partnering closely with technical teams to translate project concepts into robust financial outcomes that support value creation and risk management.

Key Responsibilities

Consulting and Financial Analysis

• Develop, review, and maintain detailed financial models to evaluate mining projects, including cash flow forecasts, NPV, IRR, and other investment metrics.
• Conduct market assessments, commodity pricing analysis, operating and capital cost benchmarking, and economic trend evaluations.
• Perform sensitivity, scenario, and risk analyses to assess project robustness and identify key value drivers.
• Evaluate project economics across different development options, production scenarios, and strategic alternatives.
• Support the preparation of economic sections of technical studies, reports, and investment memoranda.

Project Integration and Delivery

• Work closely with mining engineering, geology, processing, environmental, and infrastructure teams to integrate technical inputs into financial models.
• Support economic evaluations for scoping studies, prefeasibility studies, feasibility studies, and life-of-mine assessments.
• Contribute to technical and commercial due diligence assignments, independent reviews, and transaction support engagements.
• Ensure consistency, transparency, and defensibility of assumptions used across technical and financial workstreams.
• Assist with project planning, schedules, and deliverables to meet client expectations and quality standards.

Client Engagement and Business Support

• Present financial and strategic findings to clients, lenders, investors, and internal stakeholders in a clear and concise manner.
• Support clients with investment decision-making, development planning, and strategic evaluations.
• Contribute to proposal development, including technical approaches, scopes of work, and commercial inputs.
• Build trusted client relationships through high-quality advisory support and responsive service delivery.
• Support knowledge sharing, innovation, and continuous improvement initiatives within the advisory team.

Management and Supervisory Responsibilities

• Provide day‑to‑day leadership, mentoring, and technical guidance to junior and mid‑level mineral economics and advisory staff.
• Oversee workload planning, task assignments, and prioritization to ensure project commitments are met efficiently and to a high standard of quality.
• Review and approve financial models, analyses, and deliverables prepared by team members to ensure accuracy, consistency, and alignment with project objectives.
• Support performance management activities, including coaching, professional development, and contribution to performance reviews.
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive team environment that encourages knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, and alignment with AECOM’s values and business goals.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or related discipline and 10+ years of relevant mining economics, financial analysis, or advisory experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.

Preferred Qualifications