Project Manager - Site & Infrastructure

USA Rare Earth, LLC

$170K — $185K *
Real Estate & Construction
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or relevant field.
  • 10+ years in project management for mining, infrastructure, or heavy civil projects.
  • Proven experience with contractor and consultant management across multidisciplinary teams.
  • Strong expertise in project planning, scheduling, budgeting, and risk management.
  • Ability to navigate complex projects with various stakeholders and conflicting interests.
  • Excellent leadership and communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Act as the owner’s representative for site infrastructure projects, ensuring contractor compliance.
  • Oversee infrastructure workstreams like access roads, grading, and utility systems.
  • Coordinate and manage field investigation programs and studies for the project.
  • Facilitate permitting processes and interact with regulatory stakeholders.
  • Develop and maintain comprehensive project schedules, budgets, and performance metrics.
  • Monitor project progress, identify risks, and take corrective actions promptly.
  • Lead project meetings to track progress and resolve technical and execution issues.

Benefits

  • Mix of office and field work environment, providing diverse daily experiences.
  • Opportunity to lead significant infrastructure projects within the mining industry.
  • Engagement with multiple stakeholders including contractors and regulatory agencies.
  • Possibility for career advancement in a growing sector.
Full Job Description
Position Summary

The Project Manager - Site & Infrastructure serves as the owner's representative for infrastructure development activities supporting the Round Top Project. This role leads the planning, coordination, and execution of critical site infrastructure workstreams, including access roads, site grading, utilities, water supply systems, and heap leach pad civil works.

Working closely with engineering teams, contractors, consultants, and regulatory agencies, the Project Manager is responsible for managing project scope, schedules, budgets, contractor performance, permitting support, and field investigation programs to ensure successful delivery of key project milestones and Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) objectives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Serve as the owner's representative for site infrastructure projects, providing oversight of contractors, consultants, and project deliverables.
  • Manage infrastructure workstreams including access roads, grading, utilities, water infrastructure, drainage, and civil works.
  • Coordinate field investigation programs, including geotechnical, hydrogeological, groundwater, and geochemical studies.
  • Support permitting activities and interface with regulatory agencies, including TCEQ, GLO, and other stakeholders.
  • Develop and manage project schedules, budgets, forecasts, resource plans, and performance metrics.
  • Monitor project progress, identify risks and schedule impacts, and implement corrective actions to maintain project objectives.
  • Facilitate coordination between engineering, environmental, permitting, construction, and operations teams.
  • Lead project meetings, track action items, and resolve technical, commercial, and execution-related issues.
  • Prepare project status updates, reports, and recommendations for leadership and stakeholders.


Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related technical field.
  • 10+ years of project management experience supporting mining, industrial, infrastructure, energy, or heavy civil projects.
  • Experience managing contractors, consultants, permitting activities, and multidisciplinary project teams.
  • Strong knowledge of project planning, scheduling, budgeting, risk management, and project controls.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.


Preferred Qualifications

  • PMP, PE, or other relevant project management certification.
  • Experience supporting mining, mineral processing, or large-scale industrial development projects.
  • Familiarity with Texas permitting processes and regulatory agencies, including TCEQ and GLO.
  • Experience supporting projects through feasibility, permitting, and pre-construction phases.


Work Environment

The work environment will be a mix of a typical office environment, a construction site, and a mining site. Noise level: Normal office and lab noises.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills required of personnel so classified. The reporting relationship may not reflect the most recent changes to the corporate reporting structure.

The pay range for this role is:

170,000 - 185,000 USD per year (Wheat Ridge, CO)

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