Donlin Gold LLC · 7 hours ago
Technical Manager
Anchorage, AK
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
15+ years expDonlin Gold LLC is a leading company in the mining sector, seeking a Technical Manager to oversee engineering, technical, and interface management for a large mining development project in Alaska. The role involves providing technical leadership and ensuring alignment across multiple partners and stakeholders throughout all project phases.
MineralMining
No H1B
Responsibilities
Provide overall technical leadership for the project, ensuring engineering designs and technical solutions are safe, fit-for-purpose, constructible, and aligned with long-term operational objectives
Own and enforce project technical standards, design criteria, and engineering decision frameworks
Serve as a technical advisor to the Project Director and senior leadership team, providing clear, data-driven recommendations on technical risk, cost, schedule, and execution trade-offs
Support development and maintenance of integrated project execution plans, engineering schedules, and technical budgets, ensuring consistency across all EPCm execution strategies
Identify, assess, and manage technical and execution risks, develop mitigation strategies and contingency plans, and lead technical risk escalation and resolution processes
Ensure accurate documentation of technical decisions, assumptions, risks, and lessons learned, including formal decision registers and interface management documentation
Establish and govern technical execution frameworks across all six EPCm teams, including definition of common design criteria, interface management requirements, and performance expectations
Set and monitor EPCm technical performance KPIs, and hold EPCm teams accountable for engineering quality, schedule adherence, and data maturity
Act as the primary technical integrator across all six EPCm teams, ensuring consistent execution strategies, aligned assumptions, and coordinated deliverables, with authority to challenge and resolve misalignment
Manage technical, schedule, and data interfaces between EPCm packages to eliminate gaps, overlaps, or misalignment
Coordinate technical change management across EPCm contractors, ensuring impacts to cost, schedule, risk, and scope are clearly identified, evaluated, and controlled
Oversee and coordinate technical interfaces related to logistics, materials movement, and construction sequencing across EPCm packages, ensuring engineering deliverables are aligned with overall materials movement strategies
Ensure engineering designs account for transportation constraints, fabrication strategies, seasonal access, and site execution realities. Candidates are expected to be familiar with, and act as subject matter leaders in, areas such as sealift planning, overland transport constraints, seasonal execution windows, and module sizing decisions
Work closely with logistics, construction, and operations teams to ensure engineering solutions support efficient field execution, including constructability and installation sequencing considerations
Lead formal constructability reviews and ensure engineering designs support safe, efficient, and practical field execution during construction and commissioning
Collaborate closely with project controls, procurement, construction, environmental, permitting, and operations teams
Support engagement with regulators, partners, and external stakeholders as required
Lead and mentor senior, multi-discipline technical professionals across owner and EPCm organizations, driving alignment across competing priorities and stakeholders
Demonstrate the confidence and technical depth to challenge EPCm assumptions on design, cost, and schedule using data-driven analysis and sound engineering judgment
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Mining Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field
Minimum of 15 years of progressive experience in technical or engineering management roles on large-scale mining, energy, or heavy industrial projects
Demonstrated experience managing multiple EPC, EPCm, or major engineering contractors simultaneously
Strong understanding of mining project development, engineering design, construction sequencing, and commissioning
Expertise in project controls interfaces, technical risk management, and change management processes
Proficiency in engineering management systems, project management tools, and technical reporting
Demonstrated ability to lead senior technical professionals and influence across organizational disciplines
Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to diverse audiences
Ability to work collaboratively while confidently driving accountability and alignment across EPCm teams and internal stakeholders
High ethical standards and commitment to safety, environmental compliance, and responsible project execution
This position is based in the Anchorage office, and the selected candidate must be willing to travel to visit the Yukon-Kuskokwim region and Donlin Gold project site
Candidates must be willing and able to work in US work locations
Candidates must have current authorization to work in the United States
A post-offer criminal background clearance, physical and drug screening are required
Preferred
Experience working on projects in Alaska, remote, or logistically complex environments is strongly preferred
Professional Engineer (PE) or equivalent professional certification is preferred
Company
Donlin Gold LLC
Donlin Gold is committed to safely and responsibly developing the project and providing opportunities for the Yukon-Kuskokwim region.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageRecent News
Anchorage Daily News
2026-01-23
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