Quality and Commissioning Lead
On-siteSalt Lake City, Utah, United States
Job Summary
Lead QA/QC, completions, and commissioning activities to support the safe delivery and handover of life-of-mine infrastructure at Kennecott Underground. Establish and govern quality, inspection, testing, and acceptance processes while driving commissioning from construction completion through startup and energization. Facilitate turnover forums, manage non-conformances, and coach project and contractor teams to embed best practices without direct authority. Partner with engineering, operations, and contractors to ensure assets are safe and ready for service. This senior individual contributor role reports to the Engineering Project Manager, focusing on Hexagon Smart Completions implementation and regional leadership across Rio Tinto's Americas projects.
Required Qualifications
- A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
- Demonstrated experience leading commissioning, completions or QA/QC activities within mining, heavy industrial or major capital project environments
- Strong field leadership and the ability to influence project, contractor and operations stakeholders without direct authority
- Experience managing commissioning, startup, testing, energization and asset handover activities
- Strong understanding of quality systems, inspection and test plans, acceptance criteria, punch lists and turnover documentation
- Experience with commissioning and completions management systems
- A degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management or a related discipline
- Equivalent trade qualifications and relevant heavy industry commissioning or construction quality experience
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with Hexagon Smart Completions
- Underground mining or underground infrastructure experience
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