We are supporting a progressive mining company with the appointment of a Contracts Lead for a major mining project in West Africa.

This is a key project role for an experienced contracts professional who can lead the commercial and contractual management of major construction, infrastructure, mining, and services packages throughout project execution.

The successful candidate will work closely with the Project Director and wider project team to ensure contracts are effectively administered, commercial risks are controlled, contractor performance is managed, and the project achieves strong commercial outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead contract management and administration across major project packages from award through execution, completion, and close-out.
• Manage the commercial and contractual relationship with EPC/EPCM contractors, construction contractors, consultants, suppliers, and service providers.
• Ensure contracts are administered in accordance with agreed terms, conditions, scope, schedules, and commercial requirements.
• Manage contractual correspondence, notices, variations, claims, extensions of time, disputes, and change orders.
• Review contractor submissions and assess commercial and contractual entitlement.
• Work closely with project controls, procurement, engineering, construction, finance, and legal teams to manage project commercial risk.
• Monitor contractor performance against contractual obligations, milestones, deliverables, and KPIs.
• Lead commercial negotiations relating to variations, claims, contract amendments, and emerging project requirements.
• Maintain accurate contract registers, commitments, variations, claims, and commercial reporting.
• Identify emerging contractual and commercial risks and develop appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Support forecasting and provide visibility of potential contractual exposure and cost impacts.
• Ensure appropriate governance, approval processes, and documentation are maintained throughout the contract lifecycle.
• Support contract close-out, final account negotiations, and resolution of outstanding commercial matters.
• Develop strong working relationships with contractors while maintaining appropriate commercial discipline and protecting the company’s interests.

Candidate Profile

• Strong experience in contracts management within mining, minerals processing, infrastructure, construction, or other major capital projects.
• Proven experience administering major construction, EPC, EPCM, equipment, and/or services contracts.
• Strong understanding of contract administration, variations, claims management, change control, and commercial negotiations.
• Experience managing contracts through engineering, construction, commissioning, and project close-out.
• Strong commercial judgement with the ability to identify and manage contractual risk.
• Confident negotiating with major contractors, suppliers, consultants, and senior project stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of project cost, schedule, scope, and the commercial implications of project changes.
• Ability to work closely with multidisciplinary project teams in a fast-paced execution environment.
• Previous experience working on mining projects in Africa or other remote/international jurisdictions would be highly advantageous.

Ideal Background

The successful candidate may come from an owner’s project team, EPC/EPCM organisation, major contractor, engineering consultancy, or commercial management environment, with a strong track record managing contracts on complex capital projects.

Experience supporting mining projects through construction, commissioning, and ramp-up, particularly involving significant contractor interfaces and complex commercial packages, would be highly relevant.

Why This Role

This is an opportunity to play an important role in the delivery of a significant mining project in West Africa.

You will work closely with senior project leadership and have direct responsibility for protecting the company’s commercial position while enabling contractors and project teams to successfully deliver their scope.

For a Contracts Lead who understands major mining projects, can navigate complex commercial relationships, and combines strong contractual knowledge with a pragmatic approach to project delivery, this represents an excellent opportunity to make a tangible impact.

Qualifications/Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Engineering, Construction Management, Law, Business, or related discipline.
• Significant contracts and commercial management experience within mining or major capital projects.
• Strong experience in contract administration, variations, claims, change management, and commercial negotiations.
• Experience working within owner, EPC, EPCM, or major contractor environments.
• Strong understanding of different contracting strategies and commercial models.
• Excellent negotiation, communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• Previous international or African mining project experience preferred.

How to Apply

If you’re ready for a challenging and rewarding role, please send your CV to us at applicants@williamsmining.com.

We'll be in touch to discuss the opportunity in more detail.

We are supporting a progressive mining company with the appointment of a Project Controls Manager for a major mining project in West Africa.

This is a key project leadership role for an experienced project controls professional who can establish and maintain the systems, processes, and disciplines required to successfully deliver a complex mining project.

The successful candidate will work closely with the Project Director and wider project team, providing clear visibility across cost, schedule, progress, risk, and forecasting to support effective decision-making and ensure the project remains on track.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the project controls function across cost control, planning, scheduling, forecasting, progress measurement, and reporting.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve the integrated project master schedule.
• Establish robust cost control processes covering budgets, commitments, actual expenditure, accruals, forecasts, and estimate at completion.
• Monitor project performance against approved baseline cost and schedule and identify emerging trends, risks, and potential delays.
• Produce accurate weekly and monthly project reports, dashboards, forecasts, and management information.
• Develop and monitor project KPIs, providing early visibility of potential cost or schedule deviations.
• Coordinate closely with engineering, procurement, construction, contracts, finance, and operational readiness teams.
• Support change management processes and assess the cost and schedule impact of scope changes.
• Lead schedule risk analysis, critical path reviews, scenario planning, and recovery planning where required.
• Monitor contractor and EPC/EPCM performance against agreed schedules, budgets, milestones, and deliverables.
• Support project risk management, ensuring key risks and opportunities are quantified and incorporated into forecasts.
• Provide the Project Director and senior leadership with accurate information to support timely, evidence-based decisions.
• Develop project controls capability within the team and ensure consistent application of project controls standards and procedures.

Candidate Profile

• Strong experience in project controls within mining, minerals processing, infrastructure, or other major capital projects.
• Proven experience supporting large-scale mining projects through engineering, construction, commissioning, and ideally operational readiness.
• Strong understanding of project scheduling, cost control, forecasting, earned value, change management, and risk management.
• Experience managing integrated schedules involving engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and contractor activities.
• Strong working knowledge of project controls systems and software such as Primavera P6 and associated cost/reporting tools.
• Commercially astute with the ability to identify emerging risks before they materially impact project delivery.
• Strong analytical capability with the ability to turn complex project data into clear management information.
• Confident working with Project Directors, senior management, EPC/EPCM contractors, consultants, and multidisciplinary project teams.
• Previous experience working on mining projects in Africa or other remote/international jurisdictions would be highly advantageous.

Ideal Background

The successful candidate may come from an owner’s project team, EPCM organisation, engineering consultancy, or major mining contractor, with a strong track record of controlling complex capital projects.

Experience taking mining projects through development, construction, commissioning, and ramp-up would be particularly relevant.

Why This Role

This is an opportunity to play a key role in the delivery of a significant mining project in West Africa.

You will work closely with senior project leadership and have direct influence over how the project manages cost, schedule, risk, and overall delivery performance.

For a Project Controls Manager who understands mining projects and enjoys bringing structure, visibility, and accountability to complex project environments, this represents an excellent opportunity to make a tangible impact.

Qualifications/Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Project Management, or related discipline.
• Significant project controls experience within mining, minerals processing, or major capital projects.
• Strong Primavera P6 planning and scheduling capability.
• Demonstrable experience in cost control, forecasting, progress measurement, and project reporting.
• Experience working within owner, EPC, or EPCM project environments.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
• Previous international or African mining project experience preferred.

How to Apply

If you’re ready for a challenging and rewarding role, please send your CV to us at applicants@williamsmining.com.

We'll be in touch to discuss the opportunity in more detail.

We are supporting a progressive mid-tier gold mining company with the appointment of a Vice President, Business Development based in Vancouver.

This is a senior corporate role for a commercially sharp, strategically minded mining professional who can identify, assess, and execute growth opportunities across the gold sector. The company has a strong operating platform, a clear growth agenda, and the ambition to continue building a high-quality portfolio through disciplined business development, partnerships, and transaction execution.

The successful candidate will work closely with the executive leadership team to evaluate strategic opportunities, support corporate growth, and help shape the next stage of the company’s development.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead business development strategy across acquisitions, partnerships, investments, joint ventures, and strategic growth opportunities.
• Identify and evaluate gold assets, development projects, operating mines, and corporate opportunities aligned with the company’s growth strategy.
• Conduct commercial, financial, technical, jurisdictional, and strategic assessment of potential transactions.
• Build and maintain relationships with mining companies, advisors, investors, banks, brokers, governments, and industry stakeholders.
• Support M&A processes, including target screening, due diligence, valuation, negotiation, and transaction execution.
• Work closely with geology, technical, finance, legal, operations, and executive teams to assess opportunity quality and execution risk.
• Prepare board-level investment papers, strategic recommendations, market analysis, and transaction materials.
• Monitor gold market trends, peer activity, capital markets conditions, and emerging opportunities across relevant jurisdictions.
• Represent the company professionally within the mining investment and corporate development community.

Candidate Profile

• Strong experience in business development, corporate development, M&A, investment banking, private equity, or strategic advisory within mining.
• Excellent understanding of gold mining assets, project development, valuation, due diligence, and transaction structuring.
• Strong commercial judgement with the ability to assess both opportunity and risk.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships across the mining industry, capital markets, and advisory networks.
• Comfortable working at executive and board level.
• Strong financial modelling, valuation, presentation, and negotiation skills.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with the discipline required to work within a listed mining company environment.
• Ability to move between high-level strategy and detailed transaction analysis.
• Based in Vancouver or willing to be based in Vancouver.

Ideal Background

The successful candidate may come from a mining company corporate development team, investment banking, mining private equity, technical advisory, or a senior commercial role within the gold sector.

Experience with gold assets in the Americas, Africa, or other active mining jurisdictions would be highly relevant.

Why This Role

This is an opportunity to join a forward-thinking mid-tier gold company at an important stage of growth. The role offers direct exposure to executive decision-making, meaningful influence over corporate strategy, and the opportunity to help shape a growing gold mining portfolio.

For a business development professional who understands mining, capital markets, and value creation, this is a compelling senior leadership opportunity.

Qualifications/Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mine Engineering or related field
• Proven experience in managing mining operations, with a background close to GM level
• Strong leadership and strategic planning skills
• Energetic and ambitious, with a hunger for success
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

How to Apply

If you’re ready for a challenging and rewarding role, please send your CV to us at applicants@williamsmining.com.
We'll be in touch to discuss the opportunity in more detail.

We are supporting a mining client in the Middle East with the appointment of an experienced General Manager to lead site operations, drive safety performance, strengthen operational strategy, and build a high-performing team in a challenging mining environment.

This is a senior leadership role for a proven mining executive who can bring structure, discipline, and clear operational direction to site. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading people, performance, safety, production, cost control, stakeholder management, and long-term operational improvement.

The environment requires resilience, maturity, and the ability to lead under demanding conditions, including difficult weather, remote-site pressure, and complex operational requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide overall leadership of mining operations, ensuring safe, efficient, and disciplined site performance.
• Build and maintain a strong safety culture across the workforce, contractors, and leadership team.
• Develop and execute the site strategy, aligned with corporate objectives and production targets.
• Lead, mentor, and strengthen the site leadership team across mining, processing, maintenance, technical services, HSE, HR, supply chain, and finance.
• Drive operational improvement across productivity, cost, equipment performance, workforce capability, and contractor performance.
• Ensure clear systems, reporting structures, accountabilities, and decision-making processes are in place.
• Manage operational risk in a demanding climate and remote-site environment.
• Work closely with corporate leadership, government stakeholders, contractors, and local communities.
• Create a disciplined, performance-led culture where people understand the plan, own their responsibilities, and deliver against agreed objectives.

Candidate Profile

• Strong experience as a General Manager, Operations Manager, Mine Manager, or senior site leader within mining.
• Proven track record leading complex mining operations in remote or challenging jurisdictions.
• Strong safety leadership with a visible, practical, and non-negotiable approach to HSE.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to translate corporate objectives into clear site execution.
• Strong team builder with the ability to develop people, improve culture, and create leadership accountability.
• Experience managing large multicultural teams and contractor workforces.
• Strong commercial understanding of production, costs, budgets, asset performance, and operational planning.
• Calm, decisive leadership style with the ability to perform under pressure.
• Previous experience in the Middle East is highly desirable.
• Experience working in difficult weather conditions, including extreme heat, is strongly preferred.

Ideal Background

The successful candidate will likely have operated in environments where safety, discipline, leadership, and operational control are critical. Prior exposure to mining operations in the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, or other harsh-climate regions would be highly relevant.

Why This Role

This is an opportunity to take ownership of a significant mining operation in the Middle East and play a central role in shaping its safety culture, operational performance, and leadership capability.

The role requires a leader who can command respect on site, build trust with the workforce, and bring strategic clarity to a demanding operational environment.

If you’re ready for a challenging and rewarding role, please send your CV to us at applicants@williamsmining.com.
We'll be in touch to discuss the opportunity in more detail.

Overview

We are supporting a mining client in West Africa with the appointment of an experienced Project Study Director to lead a critical study phase that will significantly contribute to the client’s Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS).

This is a high-impact, autonomous role suited to a senior project professional who can take ownership of the study process, engage effectively with technical stakeholders, and provide the leadership required to move the project towards a robust feasibility outcome.

The initial contract will run for 6–9 months, with a strong likelihood of extension depending on project progress and feasibility results.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate project study activities contributing directly to the DFS.
• Work autonomously while engaging with internal teams, external consultants, EPCM partners, and technical specialists.
• Drive study schedules, deliverables, risks, assumptions, and reporting requirements.
• Ensure technical inputs are aligned, commercially sound, and suitable for executive and board-level decision-making.
• Provide clear leadership across engineering, mining, processing, infrastructure, permitting, cost estimation, and project controls workstreams.
• Identify key project risks, gaps, opportunities, and value-improvement areas.
• Support the client in moving the project from study phase towards a feasible development pathway.

Candidate Profile

• Strong experience leading mining studies, ideally at PFS, DFS, or execution-readiness stage.
• Previous experience working on mining projects in Africa, preferably West Africa.
• Strong understanding of project development, feasibility studies, capital cost estimation, technical trade-offs, and execution planning.
• Ability to operate independently with limited supervision.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across corporate, site, consultant, and contractor environments.
• Bilingual in English and French.
• Comfortable working in complex jurisdictions and emerging mining environments.
• Strong reporting, communication, and decision-support capability.

Ideal Background

The successful candidate will likely have held roles such as:

• Project Study Director
• Study Manager
• Project Director
• Technical Services / Project Development Lead
• Engineering Manager
• Feasibility Study Lead

Why This Role

This is an opportunity to play a central role in shaping the development path of a major mining project in West Africa. The role requires judgement, technical maturity, autonomy, and the ability to bring structure to a critical study phase.

For a senior project professional who understands how to turn technical workstreams into bankable project decisions, this is a strong opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

How to Apply

If you’re ready for a challenging and rewarding role, please send your CV to us at applicants@williamsmining.com.
We'll be in touch to discuss the opportunity in more detail.