Gerente de Ingenieria

Engineering Manager

Weir Minerals
Santiago, Chile

Onsite

Purpose of Role: The Engineering Manager is responsible for setting the strategic direction of the Engineering function, defining objectives, policies, and operational plans that guide all engineering activities. This role oversees teams dedicated to equipment, products, services, and facilities, ensuring seamless coordination and execution through direct leadership of area supervisors. The Engineering Manager will lead, prioritize, and monitor the full spectrum of engineering operations, driving efficiency, innovation, and continuous improvement, while ensuring full compliance with safety, quality, and environmental standards. This leader plays a key role in aligning engineering initiatives with business needs, enabling high‑performance execution and supporting long‑term organizational growth.

Why choose Weir:
Be part of a global organization dedicated to building a better future: At Weir, the growing world depends on us. It depends on us constantly reinventing, quickly adapting and continually finding better, faster, more sustainable ways to access the resources it needs to thrive. And it depends on each of us doing the best work of our lives. It's a big challenge – but it is exciting.

An opportunity to grow your own way: Everything moves fast in the dynamic world of Weir. This creates opportunities for us to take on new challenges, explore new areas, learn, progress and excel. Best of all, there is no set path that our people must take. Instead, everyone is given the support and freedom to tailor-make their own career and do the best work of their lives.

Feel empowered to be yourself and belong: Weir is a welcoming, inclusive place, where each individual's contribution is recognized and all employees are encouraged to innovate, collaborate and be themselves. We continually focus on people and their wellbeing. We believe in fairness and choose to be honest, transparent and authentic in everything we do.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical & Commercial Support

• Provide expert technical support to the Sales organization, ensuring accurate, timely responses to customer requirements and inquiries.
• Deliver high‑quality, technically compliant drawings and documentation aligned with customer specifications and engineering standards.

Technology, Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Identify, evaluate, and recommend new technologies relevant to comminution and associated processes.
• Conduct technical and economic feasibility studies to support new initiatives and business opportunities.
• Monitor key performance indicators and propose improvement actions to optimize engineering performance and efficiency.

Engineering Team Leadership

• Lead, coordinate, and develop engineers and designers, promoting capability building, collaboration, and professional growth.
• Foster a high‑performance culture, ensuring clarity of roles, accountability, and continuous learning.

Project Execution & Delivery

• Organize, plan, and control the execution of engineering projects, ensuring compliance with scope, quality, timing, and cost commitments.
• Oversee quality assurance and quality control processes during product design and manufacturing, ensuring alignment with global and local standards.

Strategic Alignment & Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Represent the Engineering function in corporate and international forums, ensuring alignment with global guidelines, standards, and best practices.
• Translate business strategy into engineering priorities, ensuring organizational objectives are reflected in project plans, team focus, and operational delivery.

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Civil, Industrial, Metallurgical, or Hydraulic Engineering, or related fields.
• Postgraduate studies (Master's degree or equivalent) highly desirable.
• 10+ years of professional experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams ideally within the mining or mineral processing industry.
• Solid understanding of relevant industry standards, regulations, and best practices.
• Strong knowledge of mining process equipment, industry standards, regulations, and best practices.
• Advanced skills in engineering design, blueprint reading, project planning, and execution.
• High proficiency in engineering software, including 3D design tools and finite element analysis (FEA).
• Experience with LEAN, continuous improvement, and process optimization methodologies.
• Proven ability to lead, develop, and inspire multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Strong decision‑making, critical‑thinking, and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management and cross‑functional collaboration.
• Customer‑focused mindset with strong understanding of business and technical requirements.
• Advanced English (spoken and written), comfortable operating in regional and global environments.
• Strong commitment to safety, quality, and operational excellence, aligned with corporate standards.
• Medical fitness for work in mining environments.

Founded in 1871, Weir is a world leading engineering business with a purpose to make mining operations smarter, more efficient and sustainable. Thanks to Weir's technology, our customers can produce essential metals and minerals using less energy, water and waste at lower cost. With the increasing need for metals and minerals for climate change solutions, Weir colleagues are playing their part in powering a low carbon future. We are a global family of 11,000 uniquely talented people in over 60 countries, inspiring each other to do the best work of our lives.

For additional information about what it is like to work at Weir, please visit our Career Page and LinkedIn Life Page.

Weir is committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

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