Project Manager, Studies

**This is Us**:
We enrich life through the sustainable extraction and refinement of minerals to indispensable products and through our working environment, which is unique. Because it stands for everything that really matters in life: Trust, team spirit and meaningfulness for 11,000 employees at 50 locations on five continents. Welcome to K + S.

**Your Responsibilities**:
Reporting to the Manager, Engineering Studies, the Project Manager, Studies is accountable for the scoping and delivery of studies from inception through to FEL3 completion. The is position is expected to co-ordinate with both internal and exertional stakeholders to deliver studies, accounting for project budget, schedule, while delivering solutions that address the business objectives. This role will help to define, quantify and create scope definitions for each project such that an internal team, engineering firm or combination can complete the studies required for the initial phases of the project. It is expected that this position will provide direct supervision and mentorship of future additions to the Study Management group.

Key Responsibilities:
Study Development and Management - 50%:

- Leads and/or supports with project design through study phases, ensures studies solve stakeholder objectives
- Coordinates with internal technical team and 3rd party vendors to complete technical design deliverables
- Collaborate with execution focused Project Managers and Project Engineers for effective transition from study to project execution phases
- Support business case development and develop conceptual studies, pre-feasibility, and feasibility reports jointly with Project Sponsor, Project Owner, and Finance, Engineering, and Operations teams
- Carry out necessary assessments, co-ordinate technical and financial modeling, and scenario analysis to develop and evaluate options to achieve target outcomes of the proposed project
- Conduct value engineering and facilitate decision-making with stakeholders
- Keep stakeholders, including relevant technical teams in K+S, engaged [and bought in/brought along] throughout study development
- Develop presentations, memos, reports and spreadsheets detailing all aspects of studies including basis, decisions and study outcomes

Vendor and Contractor Management - 30%:

- Oversee and coordinate study work with engineering consultants, design partners, equipment vendors, and other contractors

Team Leadership / Mentorship - 20%:

- Develop and retain people with the right skills and capabilities to effectively execute studies
- Administrate KSPC’s employee performance management program for direct reports.
- Contract Employee and Secondee Management
- Task coordination for direct reports; accountable for task completion
- Resolution of interpersonal issues
- Set a high personal safety standard for themselves, direct reports, and fellow colleagues

**Benefits**:
**We enrich your life**:

- By living our common K+S values across all our locations in the world: We are optimistic about our future, collaborative in building it, and with our entrepreneurial spirit, we aim to dig deeper and reach higher. We remain agile in an ever-changing world. We are innovative, turning obstacles into opportunities - and we do it all in ways that are safe and sustainable, protecting future generations.

We are committed to being a company where every employee can contribute, grow and thrive, and where we reflect the diverse communities in which we live and work. We are working toward a truly inclusive environment, because we know that the amazing array of differences in our backgrounds, competencies, experiences, race, gender, age, beliefs, sexual orientation, identity and their intersections is key to the longevity, sustainability and growth of our organization.

In a career with K+S Potash Canada (KSPC), you can look forward to:
Good People and Great Culture

Have the opportunity to be part of a team committed to building a new and diverse culture. At KSPC we are growing our operations, delivering exciting new opportunities, and investing heavily in the communities where we live and work.

Challenge and Growth

We support your growth potential (support of professional development) and recognition of performance.

Valuable Compensation

Our total target compensation is competitive and benchmarked to the market. We have a Pay for Performance philosophy that includes two components, fixed (base) pay and short term incentive (bonus) that rewards employees for their contributions towards corporate, team and individual successes.

Supporting Benefits

A comprehensive, employer paid, benefits program which includes Life, Disability, Health and Dental as well as competitive Retirement benefits, Employee and Family Assistance Program PLUS great extras such as, paid work time to help out in your Community (volunteer with a sports team or a charity of your choice) and company money to allocate to your favourite charity A Health Spend