Directeur, construction / Construction Manager

Your new company

The Windfall Project, owned by Gold Fields, is in northern Québec. By joining our passionate team, committed to creating lasting value beyond mining, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the construction and startup of a world-class mining project, one of the most ambitious in recent decades.

Gold Fields is a globally diversified gold producer with operations in Australia, South Africa, Ghana, Peru, Canada and Chile. At Gold Fields, we are committed to achieving an inclusive workforce and recognize that the diverse talent of our people will ultimately determine our growth, performance and success.

This is a role that offers you the opportunity to lead high-impact initiatives, collaborate with experts, and contribute to the global growth of our operations and in Québec. You will thrive in a dynamic environment where challenges and an exceptional workplace will support your professional growth.

Join the Windfall adventure!

Your new role

This role is part of Gold Fields’ Owner’s Team. You will play a key role in the strategic oversight of the construction of the Windfall mining project, currently in the pre-construction phase, delivered under an EPCM execution model. Acting on behalf of the Owner, you will ensure governance, alignment, and overall performance of construction activities carried out by the EPCM contractor and specialty contractors.

Without having direct, first-line site management responsibilities, you will ensure execution is carried out safely, efficiently, and in line with the project’s objectives for schedule, cost, quality, and safety. You will contribute to seamless integration across engineering, procurement, and construction functions, while maintaining close communication with internal and external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the owner’s team’s primary representative on the construction site.
• Define, together with the EPCM, the overall construction strategies (e.g., sequencing, modularization, prefabrication) and ensure alignment with the project objectives.
• Provide governance and oversight of construction activities carried out by the EPCM and contractors, ensuring compliance with contractual requirements and the owner’s standards
• Ensure contractors’ execution plans are coherent, integrated, and aligned with the project’s overall strategy.
• Implement and promote a strong health and safety culture on site. Put in place HSE management systems and participate in HSE meetings and audits.
• Monitor overall construction performance (progress, productivity, sequencing, interfaces) and challenge the EPCM on variances and recovery plans.
• Oversee construction contract administration. Manage claims, changes, and commercial issues. Ensure stakeholders comply with their contractual obligations.
• Ensure optimization of resources and execution efficiency through review, analysis, and governance mechanisms.
• Ensure effective integration between engineering, procurement, and construction, including oversight of critical interface management.
• Identify, assess, and oversee the management of construction-related risks, and ensure the EPCM implements appropriate mitigation measures.
• Act as the strategic point of contact for construction matters between the owner, the EPCM, and other stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with quality standards.
• Oversee labor and industrial relations issues, ensuring that the strategies implemented by the EPCM are appropriate and compliant with the local context.

What you'll need to succeed

• 15+ years of experience in construction and project management, and a demonstrated health & safety performance
• Demonstrated experience in managing large-scale industrial projects, using cutting edge construction strategies and methodologies, and working within a project with an EPCM delivery strategy
• Demonstrated success in deploying large scale modularization and off-site pre-assembly strategies
• Leadership qualities to motivate and guide engineering, procurement and construction teams
• A collaborative leadership style. 
• Proficient in data analysis and reporting for performance assessment
• Excellent written and verbal communication and ability to form strong relationships with a variety of stakeholders

What you'll get in return

• You will be part of a large-scale mining project, working in a highly collaborative environment of project and technical professionals from around the world
• Working from the Montreal project office for the remainder of the design and planning phase, you will have access to a vibrant, modern workspace that will enable a high degree of collaboration with other leaders in the project
• Exceptional career development on one of the largest mining projects in the past decade in Quebec.
• A unique opportunity to lead the delivery of a greenfield project, that will see the best technologies embedded into the startup of the operation. 
• Access to global projects networks to leverage the best of practice across Gold Fields
• Highly competitive compensation
• Collective insurance plan
• RRSP
• And much more!

What you need to do now

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If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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