Process Department Manager

Wood is seeking a **Process Department Manager **to join our Mining & Minerals business group. Reporting to the Office Engineering Manager, this position is located at our Saskatoon, SK office. The Process Department Manager has overall responsibility for the quality delivery of process engineering within projects, ensuring that projects are technically supported from a process engineering perspective, providing direction and mentorship to process engineers, assigning work, supervising activities and coordinating across project interfaces. If you have a successful track record and thrive on challenges in a fast-paced environment, this opportunity is for you

**Come be your very best YOU at Wood.**

Wood is one of Canada’s longest standing engineering firms with roots dating back to 1907 with a presence in Saskatchewan for over 60 years - The Saskatoon office is the Potash Centre of Excellence and leaders in uranium, lithium and other base metals with multi-discipline expertise leading sustaining capital and all phases of projects from concept studies up to large scale EPCM projects.
**Come join the elite Wood team**

**Why Wood - you ask ? It’s an opportunity to**:

- Join the Potash Centre of Excellence - working with, learning from and becoming world-class experts
- Grow YOUR career with a team that truly cares about your personal development and advancement.
- Enjoy Hybrid / Flexible working options
- Work on challenging, innovative and sustainable solutions for potash, lithium, uranium and base metal projects
- Collaborate with our national & global mining teams
- Work on projects abroad - we offices are in 30 countries worldwide
- Enjoy a competitive benefits package that includes: progressive matching RRSP’s, medical, dental, parental leave, employee / family assistance / mental wellness programs, among many others)
- Recruits, interviews, evaluates and manages staffing levels to ensure project staffing and office utilization targets are achieved.
- Conducts staff performance and personal development reviews and recommendations to senior management for promotion, salary levels, work assignment and external training programs.
- Provides guidance, support, mentoring and direction to process engineering staff on projects including codes and standards, and best practices.
- Ensure that the appropriate people are retained and developed within the process team to maintain and improve technical expertise and to deliver high-quality process engineering work for studies and projects.
- Provides input in the areas of execution plan, engineering cost estimates, resourcing and schedules for proposals.
- Assists discipline leads with establishing and maintaining project plans, scope, schedules and budgets.
- Assigns qualified staff to projects in coordination with the discipline leads.
- Monitors the performance of the department on each project including manhour usage, progress and quality.
- Approve deliverables such as process plant mass balance, process design criteria, PFDs, P&IDs, plant layouts, and 3-D models.
- Approve technical specifications, technical evaluations, and recommendations for equipment purchases.
- Takes corrective action where necessary to control engineering work within budget and schedule.
- Delegates tasks and authority to discipline leads as required and supervises resulting action.
- Prepares, maintains and assures compliance with engineering procedures and quality control standards.
- In conjunction with the office engineering manager and other engineering disciplines, participates in the formulation, improvements and subsequent implementation of corporate and project software, design tools, Engineering Policies, Procedures, Instructions, Forms and Standards.
- Promotes, supervises, and monitors inter-department relations between Business Units, projects and other departments with respect to performance of process engineering and design
- Promotes, supervises, and monitors compliance with Wood HSSE, Risk Management and QM Procedures for department and project work
- Participates in office and project audits as directed by management
- Provide support during construction, commissioning, and startup activities.
- Interact with client process engineers on design issues and incorporate client requirements in a cost effective and low risk manner.
- Interact with industry professionals, vendors, and professional organizations to maintain a knowledge of technical advancements and how these might be applied to improve client services and products.
- Undergraduate or Graduate Degree in Chemical Engineering or Extractive Metallurgy.
- Recognized expertise in potash and/or uranium processing. Other relevant experience with other metals such as gold, copper, cobalt and nickel are considered an asset. Broad experience with other commodities is desired.
- Experience in greenfield or large brownfield projects is required ($50M-$500M).
- Over 15 years of experience in process engineering, w