Cyprium Metals is seeking an experienced Project Director to lead the safe, effective and integrated delivery of its approved capital project portfolio.

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer and acting as the owner’s representative, the Project Director will lead projects from front-end loading and investment readiness through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, operational readiness and handover.

This role holds accountability for project delivery, contractor performance, project controls, commercial outcomes and delivery assurance. You will ensure projects are executed safely, efficiently and in alignment with approved scope, schedule, budget, quality standards and broader business objectives.

Operating within a lean owner’s team model, you will integrate internal stakeholders, specialist engineering partners, consultants, contractors and operational teams. You will build and lead the integrated project team, coordinate delivery resources across the approved portfolio and support the Company’s long-term growth strategy.

Role requirements

You will lead the safe and successful delivery of Cyprium Metals’ capital project portfolio and translate approved project sequencing and investment decisions into integrated, practical and appropriately resourced delivery plans.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Delivering approved projects in accordance with agreed scope, schedule, budget, quality and business objectives.
- Establishing integrated execution plans across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and operational readiness.
- Coordinating project interfaces throughout the full project lifecycle.
- Managing brownfield interfaces and project activities while protecting the safety, reliability and continuity of operating assets.
- Driving disciplined execution, accountability and timely decision-making.
- Ensuring projects transition safely and efficiently into operations.
- Identifying portfolio-level resource constraints, competing priorities and delivery dependencies.
- Escalating emerging delivery issues early so they can be resolved in a timely and practical manner.
- Coordinating delivery capacity and resources across the approved capital portfolio.

Project controls and delivery assurance

You will lead an integrated approach to project controls, governance and delivery assurance across the portfolio.

This will include:

- Leading project controls across schedule, cost, risk, change management and reporting.
- Ensuring project execution aligns with Cyprium Metals’ project delivery framework and governance requirements.
- Establishing and maintaining approved scope, cost and schedule baselines for each project.
- Maintaining accurate project forecasts, critical path analysis and delivery reporting.
- Monitoring commitments, expenditure, cash-flow forecasts, contingency usage and forecast cost at completion.
- Identifying emerging risks, constraints, performance concerns and recovery opportunities.

- Preparing project evidence, recommendations and readiness assessments for decision gates and assurance reviews.
- Providing timely, accurate and practical reporting to support Executive and Board decision-making.

Contractor & Commercial Management

As the owner’s lead representative, you will provide clear direction and accountability across contractors, consultants and delivery partners.

You will:

- Lead contractor performance across safety, quality, schedule, cost, productivity and delivery outcomes.
- Establish collaborative and high-performing contractor relationships while maintaining commercial discipline.
- Review contractor execution plans, resource strategies, forecasts and recovery plans.
- Coordinate work packages to reduce interface risk and improve delivery efficiency.
- Provide project delivery input into procurement, packaging and contracting strategies.
- Support appropriate allocation of scope, commercial responsibility and interface risk.
- Work closely with procurement and commercial teams during contractor selection, contract execution and performance management.
- Support the management of variations, claims, performance issues and contractual remedies.
- Protect Cyprium Metals’ commercial position throughout project delivery.
- Confirm contractor progress claims and forecasts are supported by verified physical progress and approved scope.

Project planning and execution

You will provide strong delivery leadership during front-end loading and ensure projects are sufficiently developed before major commitments are made.

Key responsibilities will include:

- Ensuring scope definition, constructability, work packaging and execution risks are developed to an appropriate level.
- Coordinating engineering, procurement and construction activities throughout delivery.
- Integrating long-lead procurement, construction sequencing and commissioning readiness into project plans.
- Ensuring statutory approvals, permits, critical inspections and compliance requirements are identified early.
- Incorporating constructability, operability and maintainability into design and execution planning.
- Engaging operations, maintenance, safety and commissioning representatives in design reviews and execution planning.
- Supporting effective management of project scope, interfaces and change.
- Confirming projects have sufficient engineering maturity, scope definition, execution readiness and risk treatment before construction or major commitments commence.

Operational readiness and handover

Operational readiness will be embedded throughout project execution rather than treated as a final-stage activity.

You will be responsible for:

- Integrating operational readiness activities into project planning and execution.
- Engaging operational teams throughout planning, construction and commissioning.
- Coordinating commissioning, performance testing, start-up and asset handover.
- Establishing commissioning strategies, systems-completion requirements and acceptance criteria early.
- Ensuring operational documentation, training and maintenance information are complete before handover.
- Recording, assigning and closing defects, incomplete works and outstanding obligations.
- Delivering assets that are ready for safe, reliable and sustainable operation.
- Supporting post-implementation reviews.
- Confirming delivered assets are capable of achieving approved business-case outcomes.

Safety, risk and compliance

Visible safety leadership will be central to your approach.

You will:

- Demonstrate visible and consistent safety leadership across all project activities.
- Ensure projects are delivered in accordance with legislative, regulatory and Company requirements.
- Promote effective project risk identification, assessment, mitigation and management.
- Ensure quality assurance and construction assurance processes are implemented.
- Support audits, assurance reviews and compliance activities.
- Embed critical risk controls, design safety requirements and operational controls from project definition through commissioning and handover.
- Foster a culture of accountability, forward planning, transparency and continuous improvement.

Stakeholder management

The role requires strong engagement across internal functions and external delivery partners.

You will:

- Build effective relationships across Operations, Technical, Commercial and Corporate teams.
- Clearly communicate project performance, risks, decisions and recommended actions to the Chief Operating Officer.
- Present practical and transparent information to relevant governance forums.
- Maintain productive relationships with engineering partners, contractors, regulators and external stakeholders.
- Promote collaboration and alignment across all project participants.
- Clearly define and manage project interfaces, responsibilities, decision requirements and handover points.




- Challenge unrealistic assumptions and elevate emerging issues early.

Project team leadership and capability

You will build and lead a multidisciplinary integrated project team suited to the size, complexity and maturity of the capital portfolio.

Your leadership responsibilities will include:

- Establishing clear roles, accountabilities, priorities and performance expectations.
- Planning project workforce and specialist capability requirements.
- Mobilising resources in line with approved project schedules.
- Creating an environment where risks, issues and performance concerns are raised early and discussed transparently.
- Developing internal project delivery capability through coaching and disciplined ways of working.
- Embedding lessons learned and continuous improvement across the project team.
- Ensuring consultants and contractors supplement, rather than replace, Cyprium Metals’ ownership of project integration and key delivery decisions.

About you

You are a senior capital projects leader with extensive experience delivering major projects in mining, minerals processing or heavy industrial environments.

You are comfortable operating as the owner’s representative and have a strong track record of leading projects through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, operational readiness and handover.

You combine practical delivery leadership with strong commercial judgement, structured project controls and the ability to build alignment across internal teams, contractors and external stakeholders.

Qualifications and experience

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

- A tertiary qualification in engineering, construction management, project management or a related discipline.
- Significant experience delivering major capital projects in mining, minerals processing or heavy industry.
- Demonstrated experience leading owner’s teams through engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning.
- Proven experience managing multiple concurrent projects or complex capital programs.
- Experience building and leading multidisciplinary integrated project teams.
- Strong contractor management, commercial management and contractual capability.
- Demonstrated experience delivering brownfield capital projects.
- Experience managing projects within or adjacent to operating assets.
- Experience managing complex construction, commissioning and operational interfaces.
- Experience with processing plant, infrastructure or mining project delivery.

- Experience in copper or base-metals operations will be highly regarded.
- Project Management Professional, Australian Institute of Project Management or equivalent will be highly regarded.

Skills & attributes

You will demonstrate:

- Strong project and people leadership capability.
- Commercial acumen and sound contractual judgement.
- Excellent planning, coordination and organisational skills.
- Strong understanding of project controls and delivery assurance.

- Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills.
- The ability to lead high-performing multidisciplinary project teams.

- The judgement to elevate emerging issues at the right time.
- A strong commitment to safety, integrity, accountability and continuous improvement.

Why join Cyprium Metals?

This is a significant senior leadership opportunity to take ownership of an approved capital project portfolio and help shape the delivery systems, project capability and execution disciplines that support Cyprium Metals’ long-term growth strategy.

You will work closely with the Chief Operating Officer, operational leaders, internal functions and specialist delivery partners. You will have the opportunity to influence project strategy, build the integrated project team and lead projects from investment readiness through to safe and sustainable operations.

Cyprium Metals is seeking an experienced Project Director to lead the safe, effective and integrated delivery of its approved capital project portfolio.

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer and acting as the owner’s representative, the Project Director will lead projects from front-end loading and investment readiness through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, operational readiness and handover.

This role holds accountability for project delivery, contractor performance, project controls, commercial outcomes and delivery assurance. You will ensure projects are executed safely, efficiently and in alignment with approved scope, schedule, budget, quality standards and broader business objectives.

Operating within a lean owner’s team model, you will integrate internal stakeholders, specialist engineering partners, consultants, contractors and operational teams. You will build and lead the integrated project team, coordinate delivery resources across the approved portfolio and support the Company’s long-term growth strategy.

Role requirements

You will lead the safe and successful delivery of Cyprium Metals’ capital project portfolio and translate approved project sequencing and investment decisions into integrated, practical and appropriately resourced delivery plans.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Delivering approved projects in accordance with agreed scope, schedule, budget, quality and business objectives.
- Establishing integrated execution plans across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and operational readiness.
- Coordinating project interfaces throughout the full project lifecycle.
- Managing brownfield interfaces and project activities while protecting the safety, reliability and continuity of operating assets.
- Driving disciplined execution, accountability and timely decision-making.
- Ensuring projects transition safely and efficiently into operations.
- Identifying portfolio-level resource constraints, competing priorities and delivery dependencies.
- Escalating emerging delivery issues early so they can be resolved in a timely and practical manner.
- Coordinating delivery capacity and resources across the approved capital portfolio.

Project controls and delivery assurance

You will lead an integrated approach to project controls, governance and delivery assurance across the portfolio.

This will include:

- Leading project controls across schedule, cost, risk, change management and reporting.
- Ensuring project execution aligns with Cyprium Metals’ project delivery framework and governance requirements.
- Establishing and maintaining approved scope, cost and schedule baselines for each project.
- Maintaining accurate project forecasts, critical path analysis and delivery reporting.
- Monitoring commitments, expenditure, cash-flow forecasts, contingency usage and forecast cost at completion.
- Identifying emerging risks, constraints, performance concerns and recovery opportunities.

- Preparing project evidence, recommendations and readiness assessments for decision gates and assurance reviews.
- Providing timely, accurate and practical reporting to support Executive and Board decision-making.

Contractor & Commercial Management

As the owner’s lead representative, you will provide clear direction and accountability across contractors, consultants and delivery partners.

You will:

- Lead contractor performance across safety, quality, schedule, cost, productivity and delivery outcomes.
- Establish collaborative and high-performing contractor relationships while maintaining commercial discipline.
- Review contractor execution plans, resource strategies, forecasts and recovery plans.




- Coordinate work packages to reduce interface risk and improve delivery efficiency.
- Provide project delivery input into procurement, packaging and contracting strategies.
- Support appropriate allocation of scope, commercial responsibility and interface risk.
- Work closely with procurement and commercial teams during contractor selection, contract execution and performance management.
- Support the management of variations, claims, performance issues and contractual remedies.
- Protect Cyprium Metals’ commercial position throughout project delivery.
- Confirm contractor progress claims and forecasts are supported by verified physical progress and approved scope.

Project planning and execution

You will provide strong delivery leadership during front-end loading and ensure projects are sufficiently developed before major commitments are made.

Key responsibilities will include:

- Ensuring scope definition, constructability, work packaging and execution risks are developed to an appropriate level.
- Coordinating engineering, procurement and construction activities throughout delivery.
- Integrating long-lead procurement, construction sequencing and commissioning readiness into project plans.
- Ensuring statutory approvals, permits, critical inspections and compliance requirements are identified early.
- Incorporating constructability, operability and maintainability into design and execution planning.
- Engaging operations, maintenance, safety and commissioning representatives in design reviews and execution planning.
- Supporting effective management of project scope, interfaces and change.
- Confirming projects have sufficient engineering maturity, scope definition, execution readiness and risk treatment before construction or major commitments commence.

Operational readiness and handover

Operational readiness will be embedded throughout project execution rather than treated as a final-stage activity.

You will be responsible for:

- Integrating operational readiness activities into project planning and execution.
- Engaging operational teams throughout planning, construction and commissioning.
- Coordinating commissioning, performance testing, start-up and asset handover.
- Establishing commissioning strategies, systems-completion requirements and acceptance criteria early.
- Ensuring operational documentation, training and maintenance information are complete before handover.
- Recording, assigning and closing defects, incomplete works and outstanding obligations.
- Delivering assets that are ready for safe, reliable and sustainable operation.
- Supporting post-implementation reviews.
- Confirming delivered assets are capable of achieving approved business-case outcomes.

Safety, risk and compliance

Visible safety leadership will be central to your approach.

You will:

- Demonstrate visible and consistent safety leadership across all project activities.
- Ensure projects are delivered in accordance with legislative, regulatory and Company requirements.
- Promote effective project risk identification, assessment, mitigation and management.
- Ensure quality assurance and construction assurance processes are implemented.
- Support audits, assurance reviews and compliance activities.
- Embed critical risk controls, design safety requirements and operational controls from project definition through commissioning and handover.
- Foster a culture of accountability, forward planning, transparency and continuous improvement.

Stakeholder management

The role requires strong engagement across internal functions and external delivery partners.

You will:

- Build effective relationships across Operations, Technical, Commercial and Corporate teams.
- Clearly communicate project performance, risks, decisions and recommended actions to the Chief Operating Officer.
- Present practical and transparent information to relevant governance forums.
- Maintain productive relationships with engineering partners, contractors, regulators and external stakeholders.
- Promote collaboration and alignment across all project participants.
- Clearly define and manage project interfaces, responsibilities, decision requirements and handover points.
- Challenge unrealistic assumptions and elevate emerging issues early.

Project team leadership and capability

You will build and lead a multidisciplinary integrated project team suited to the size, complexity and maturity of the capital portfolio.

Your leadership responsibilities will include:

- Establishing clear roles, accountabilities, priorities and performance expectations.
- Planning project workforce and specialist capability requirements.
- Mobilising resources in line with approved project schedules.
- Creating an environment where risks, issues and performance concerns are raised early and discussed transparently.
- Developing internal project delivery capability through coaching and disciplined ways of working.
- Embedding lessons learned and continuous improvement across the project team.
- Ensuring consultants and contractors supplement, rather than replace, Cyprium Metals’ ownership of project integration and key delivery decisions.

About you

You are a senior capital projects leader with extensive experience delivering major projects in mining, minerals processing or heavy industrial environments.

You are comfortable operating as the owner’s representative and have a strong track record of leading projects through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, operational readiness and handover.

You combine practical delivery leadership with strong commercial judgement, structured project controls and the ability to build alignment across internal teams, contractors and external stakeholders.

Qualifications and experience

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

- A tertiary qualification in engineering, construction management, project management or a related discipline.
- Significant experience delivering major capital projects in mining, minerals processing or heavy industry.
- Demonstrated experience leading owner’s teams through engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning.
- Proven experience managing multiple concurrent projects or complex capital programs.
- Experience building and leading multidisciplinary integrated project teams.
- Strong contractor management, commercial management and contractual capability.
- Demonstrated experience delivering brownfield capital projects.
- Experience managing projects within or adjacent to operating assets.
- Experience managing complex construction, commissioning and operational interfaces.
- Experience with processing plant, infrastructure or mining project delivery.

- Experience in copper or base-metals operations will be highly regarded.
- Project Management Professional, Australian Institute of Project Management or equivalent will be highly regarded.

Skills & attributes

You will demonstrate:

- Strong project and people leadership capability.
- Commercial acumen and sound contractual judgement.
- Excellent planning, coordination and organisational skills.
- Solid understanding of project controls and delivery assurance.

- Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills.
- The ability to lead high-performing multidisciplinary project teams.

- The judgement to elevate emerging issues at the right time.
- A strong commitment to safety, integrity, accountability and continuous improvement.

Why join Cyprium Metals?

This is a significant senior leadership opportunity to take ownership of an approved capital project portfolio and help shape the delivery systems, project capability and execution disciplines that support Cyprium Metals’ long-term growth strategy.

You will work closely with the Chief Operating Officer, operational leaders, internal functions and specialist delivery partners. You will have the opportunity to influence project strategy, build the integrated project team and lead projects from investment readiness through to safe and sustainable operations.

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📌 Project Director (Western Australia)
🏢 Cyprium Metals
📍 Western Australia