Typical roles on Large-scale Resource Development and Infrastructure Projects:
- Project Development Consultant
- Development Manager
- Study Manager
Services Offered include:
SCOPING AND FEASIBILITY STUDIES
- Develop project scope
- Optimise configuration of project elements
- Recognise limits of high-level estimates
- Identify key system functionalities
- Identify infrastructure capacities, connectivities and constraints
- Identify need for subject matter experts in specialist fields including geotechnical, hydrology, coastal engineering, dredging, materials handling, and risk engineering
- Align project objectives with business strategy
- Recognise commercial relationships affecting project elements
- Achieve stakeholder buy-in for preliminary project concepts
- Identify project success criteria
- Understand complex relationships
- Identify competing stakeholder needs and priorities
- Manage stakeholder expectations
- Foster collaboration among stakeholders
- Identify and evaluate technical risks
- Consider need for buffer zones
- Address unforeseen risks identified by subject matter experts
- Identify and evaluate options
- Identify site access routes
- Understand linear projects (roads, railways, gas and water pipelines, power transmission lines)
- Plan infrastructure corridors
SITE INVESTIGATION MANAGEMENT
- Identify field investigations required
- Engage and manage subject matter experts for field investigations
- Scope and manage field investigations
- Interpret impact of field investigation results on project scope, schedule and cost
- Understand construction methodologies
- Identify logistics and supply chain parameters
- Understand particular resource processing and handling requirements
- Understand transfer and export systems for bulk liquid and bulk solid products
PROJECT PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
- Collaborate with project teams
- Develop project charter
- Manage iteration and integration
- Communicate with stakeholders