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Project Director - Copper South Australia | Adelaide

Date: 27 Oct 2026

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Job Country: Australia

Job State/Province: South Australia

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About the Role

The Project Director is accountable for setting the direction, providing project management leadership across the study and delivery teams and delivery for the Carrapateena Expansion Project Stage 2 investment (CXPS2) or the Mine and Concentrator Growth (MCG), as part of Copper South Australia Major Projects (CuSAMP). The role reports directly to the Head of CuSAMP Projects within Minerals Australia Projects.

Project Management

- Provides leadership and decision making to ensure the successful development and delivery of CXPS2 or MCG that deliver the approved business objectives.
- Confirms the establishment and maintenance of aggregated project function standards, methodologies, strategies and systems.
- Manages key internal and external stakeholders, including Business and Asset Leadership Teams,



Project Steering Committees, governance groups, and commercial partners as appropriate.
- Approves the portfolio of improvement initiatives in the Projects’ value workstreams, monitors the status of implementation and tracks the value obtained.
- Identifies, builds and develops talent and capability in the aggregated functions including a pipeline of talent for key positions.
- Establishes effective communication channels to encourage collaboration and new ideas.
- Confirms all inputs from the Project teams are developed in compliance with both internal and external governance processes and Our Requirements performance requirements.
- Confirms the establishment of program and project risk and quality management plans within the aggregated functions to assure effective management of the program’s scopes of work.
- Confirms the evaluation of key learnings, industry leading practice and innovations in the aggregated functions to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Provides leadership to ensure effective and ODP compliant project organisation.
- Confirms the establishment of capability development plans to ensure the availability of appropriately skilled resources matched to underlying investment scope.




- Provides leadership to ensure programmatic/project opportunities for capital efficiency and productivity improvements are identified and implemented within the investment.

Functional Integration

- Identifies resourcing needs for delivery of Phase requirements in line with Our Requirements through study and delivery phases, and the selected delivery model.
- Collaborates with Functional Leaders to ensure appropriate support from the aggregated functions to deliver the Project Phase requirements in line with Our Requirements.
- Operations Management to prepare for the successful transition of the projects to Operations.
- Collaborates with the line, other Functional Leaders and the appointed Delivery Partner to implement Project Management strategies and initiatives.
- Explores and iteratively reassesses the best fit solutions, takes ownership of project decisions and outcomes and monitors and manages impacts to value across the project lifecycle (e.g. social, environmental, commercial).
- Develops integrated deliverables and integrates the work across the CXPS2 or MCG investment through interface management, stakeholder management, project risk management and dependency identification and management, from study phase through to close out.
- Develops and implements project turnover processes and executes commissioning/handover activities to facilitate the successful commissioning of CXPS2 or MCG investment.
- Monitors HSE compliance and applies appropriate methodologies/standards to effectively identify and mitigate HSE risks across the investment.
- Defines project objectives/schedules, identifies critical activities, monitors the project plans/schedules and drives continuous improvement initiatives across proj

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