Specialist - Mining, Operations
Apply NowCompany: McKinsey & Company
Location: Denver, CO 80219
Description:
Your Growth
Your home base will be our Denver office as part of our Mining team within our global Metals and Mining practice.
Our Metals and Mining practice focuses on accelerating sustainable and inclusive growth by leveraging artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to shape client's strategy, boost productivity and drive innovation.
Your Impact
In this role you will leverage your industry knowledge and expertise within operational mining to solve some of the most pressing and complex issues at clients.
In this role you will be staffed on client engagements and be responsible for identifying issues, forming hypotheses, designing and conducting analysis, synthesizing conclusions into recommendations and helping to implement change with our clients.
Throughout an engagement, you will be involved in discussions and presentations with client team members and leadership.
You will lead or contribute to knowledge development initiatives in order to expand our mining capabilities.
You will develop and maintain a strong internal reputation and network with client teams, and will be "in the flow" of new external thinking to renew personal knowledge and expertise over time to remain at leading edge in the field.
In this role you will work as a team member on subjects ranging from strategy and operations, to conducting due diligence. Examples of the type of work include deploying AI and digital analytics in order to improve processes within the plant and working on operations topics to redesign processes of the plant.
Your qualifications and skills
Your home base will be our Denver office as part of our Mining team within our global Metals and Mining practice.
Our Metals and Mining practice focuses on accelerating sustainable and inclusive growth by leveraging artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to shape client's strategy, boost productivity and drive innovation.
Your Impact
In this role you will leverage your industry knowledge and expertise within operational mining to solve some of the most pressing and complex issues at clients.
In this role you will be staffed on client engagements and be responsible for identifying issues, forming hypotheses, designing and conducting analysis, synthesizing conclusions into recommendations and helping to implement change with our clients.
Throughout an engagement, you will be involved in discussions and presentations with client team members and leadership.
You will lead or contribute to knowledge development initiatives in order to expand our mining capabilities.
You will develop and maintain a strong internal reputation and network with client teams, and will be "in the flow" of new external thinking to renew personal knowledge and expertise over time to remain at leading edge in the field.
In this role you will work as a team member on subjects ranging from strategy and operations, to conducting due diligence. Examples of the type of work include deploying AI and digital analytics in order to improve processes within the plant and working on operations topics to redesign processes of the plant.
Your qualifications and skills
- Undergraduate degree with excellent academic record required, ideally in engineering; advanced degree in similar field a plus
- 4+ years of relevant experience in the mining industry, within operational mining/mining management
- Experience in data analysis and interest in developing new approaches to mining data analysis and application to operational improvement
- Outstanding performance track record and career development
- Strong business and industry acumen
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Strong interpersonal and communication (oral and written) skills in English, additional fluency in Spanish a plus