Jorge Meza

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Regional Director Project Controls and Estimating @ Ausenco
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Thirty nine (39) years total experience in project management, construction, planning, scheduling, cost control, forecasting and estimating, 7 years working at different engineering and construction companies, 15 years at Bechtel Corporation, 2 years at Newmont Mining Corporation, 3 years at AMEC, 1 year at Antucoya Mining, 3 years at Teck, 9 months with Amec Foster Wheeler, 9 months with Antofagasta Minerals, 2 years with Angloamerican and 3 years with Hatch.Thirty (30) years project controls experience in Mining & Metals, 15+ years as Project Controls Manager, 3 years in Telecoms, Fiber optics and Wireless networks, 1 year in Airports at Chicago O’Hare and 6 years with construction companies. Worked in large projects including: concentrators, SX-EW plants, leach pads, smelters, concentrate pipelines, molybdenum plants, ports, powerlines, waterlines, tailings dams, camps, roads, bridges, infrastructure, airports, fiber optics and wireless networks and others.ars with construction companies. Thirty one (31) years experience working in Latin America projects and four years experience in United States projects. Successfully completing positions like Corporate PCM, Project Controls Manager, Latin America Region Estimator (Mining & Metals), Project Estimator (Telecoms Los Angeles CA), Project Cost Engineer, Project Controls Manager (Telecoms Dallas TX), Project Controls Supervisor, Lead Trend Engineer, Lead Cost Engineer, Planner and Scheduler.Has experience in EPCM and EPC large and medium size projects, range from 60 million up to 6 billion dollars, working at the main project office and at the jobsite, in offices located at the sea level up to 16,000 feet above sea level (Los Andes). Has experience as a constructor, as EPC/M and in the owner team.Use many project controls software packages and create custom project controls tools applications required to improve project estimating, control and reporting.Language capabilities: Fluent in English and Spanish (native)

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Ausenco

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Regional Director Project Controls and Estimating
Chile
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Jorge Meza Work Experience Details
  • Ausenco
    Regional Director Project Controls And Estimating
    Ausenco
    Chile
  • Ausenco
    Regional Director Project Controls & Estimating
    Ausenco Apr 2023 - Present
    Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
  • Hatch
    Project Controls Manager
    Hatch May 2022 - Mar 2023
    Santiago, Chile
    Albemarle SYIP Lithium EP/CM Project, Production process of Salar Plant includes concentration by solar evaporation of natural brine from 0.2% to 6% of Lithium and transported to La Negra Chemical Plant to produce Lithium Carbonate battery grade, and additional commercial salts like Potassium Chloride (KC) and Bischofite. Plant located at 2300 m.a.s.l. and 275 kms from Antofagasta city, Chile. Responsible for all project controls activities, like cost control, planning, scheduling, manhours tracking, forecasting, and estimating. Total cost aprox. 300 million dollars.
  • Hatch
    Project Controls Manager
    Hatch Feb 2021 - Apr 2022
    Santiago, Chile
    Talabre TMF Expansion Basic Engineering, for Codelco’s operations: Chuquicamata, Ministro Hales and Radomito Tomic (combine production of 390 ktpd). Considers 12 High density tailings thickeners, 60m diameter each. Plant located at 2500 m.o.s.l. and 15 kms from Calama city, Chile. Responsible for all project controls activities, like cost control, planning, scheduling, manhours tracking, forecasting and estimating. Total CAPEX aprox. 1500 million dollars.
  • Hatch
    Project Controls Manager
    Hatch Sep 2020 - Jan 2021
    Santiago, Chile
    Quebradona Project Bridging Phase, Copper concentrator process plant, underground mining, TMF. Plant production 6.2 Mtpa. Plant located at 1100 m.o.s.l. and 94 kms from Medellin city, Colombia. Responsible for all project controls activities, like cost control, planning, scheduling, manhours tracking, forecasting and estimating. Total cost aprox. 2000 million dollars.
  • Hatch
    Project Controls Manager
    Hatch Feb 2020 - Aug 2020
    Santiago, Chile
    EXAR Lithium Carbonate Plant Project at Salar de Cauchari-Olaroz, Detail Engineering, Plant production of 40.000 TPA Lithium Carbonate battery grade (99.5% purity), plant located at 4000 m.o.s.l. and 210 kms from Jujuy city, Argentina. Total cost aprox. 600 million dollars
  • Anglo American
    Project Controls Manager
    Anglo American Sep 2017 - Aug 2019
    Santiago, Chile
    Quellaveco Project, 127.5 ktpd copper concentrator at 3600 m.o.s.l. located at 34 kms from Moquegua and 165 kms from Ilo port, Peru. Responsible for all project controls activities, like cost control, planning, scheduling, manhours tracking, forecasting and estimating. Supervising Fluor, the EPCM company. Total cost aprox. 6000 million dollars
  • Antofagasta Minerals
    Project Controls Manager
    Antofagasta Minerals Aug 2016 - Aug 2017
    Santiago, Chile
    Molybdenum Plant EPC, Centinela Copper Mine, Located near Calama, II region, Chile.Moly plant production is 21.5 tpd, processing 2640 tpd of collective concentrate. Responsible for all project controls activities including cost control, planning, scheduling, manhours tracking, forecasting and estimating. Total investment of 140 million dollars.
  • Amec Foster Wheeler
    Project Controls Manager
    Amec Foster Wheeler Dec 2015 - Jul 2016
    Santiago, Chile
    New Mine Level Project Basic & Detail Engineering at El Teniente Copper Underground Mine, Codelco VP. Located at 100 kms southeast from Santiago near Rancagua, VI region, Chile. Responsible for all project controls activities like cost control, planning, scheduling, manhours tracking, forecasting and estimating.
  • Teck Resources Limited
    Senior Project Controls Manager
    Teck Resources Limited Jan 2013 - Sep 2015
    Santiago, Chile
    Quebrada Blanca Phase 2, 135 ktpd copper concentrator at 4300 m.o.s.l. located at 165 kms southeast from Iquique I region, Chile. Responsible for all project controls activities, like cost control, planning, scheduling, manhours tracking, forecasting and estimating. Supervising Bechtel, the EPC/M company. Total cost of 6000 million dollars
  • Minera Antucoya
    Project Controls Manager
    Minera Antucoya Mar 2012 - Dec 2012
    Santiago De Chile
    Antucoya Project (Antogafasta Minerals), leach SX-EW copper project 80 ktpd copper cathodes, 1700 m.o.s.l. located 125 km north of Antofagasta II region Chile. Geen field. Responsible for all project controls activities, like cost control, planning, scheduling, manhours tracking, forecasting and estimating. Supervising Fluor, the EPCM company. Total cost of 1600 million dollars
  • Amec
    Corporate Project Controls Manager M&M
    Amec Jan 2012 - Feb 2012
    Santiago De Chile
    Responsible for all project controls procedures and related activities, like cost control, scheduling, manhours tracking, forecasting and estimating, and implement them in all company projects.
  • Amec
    Ep Project Controls Manager
    Amec Jun 2010 - Dec 2011
    Santiago De Chile
    EPCM Cerro Casale Project, Copiapo Chile. 4100 m.o.s.l. The project is a 150,000 tpd open pit mining, heap leach, and copper flotation plant producing 13.9 million ounces of gold and 4,056 million pounds of copper in three products: copper concentrate, gold dore and copper sulphate concentrate. Responsible for all project controls related activities, like cost control, scheduling, manhours tracking, forecasting and estimating. Supervising a group of 10 people.Total project cost: 6200 million dollars.
  • Amec
    Services Manager
    Amec Dec 2009 - May 2010
    Santiago De Chile
    Responsible for all project controls, procurement, contracts and document controls related activities, and implement them in all company projects. Prepare and revise procedures related to all this departments.Supervising, aligning and training a group of 80 people en total. Assure proper control in projects in different phases, scoping, pre-feasibility studies, feasibility studies, EP and EPCM. Assist in proposals preparation.
  • Amec
    Corporate Project Controls Manager
    Amec Oct 2008 - May 2010
    Santiago De Chile
    Responsible for all project controls procedures and related activities, like cost control, scheduling, manhours tracking, forecasting and estimating, and implement them in all company projects.Supervising, aligning and training a group of 60 project controls people en total. Assure proper control in projects in different phases, scoping, pre-feasibility studies, feasibility studies, EP and EPCM. Assist in proposals preparation.
  • Amec
    Field Project Controls Manager
    Amec Jun 2009 - Dec 2009
    Andacollo, Chile
    EPCM Andacollo Hypogene Project, TECK Andacollo Chile. 1000 m.o.s.l. New concentrator plant to process 55000 tpd of Copper ore (1 SAG mill, 2 Ball mills). Responsible for all project controls related activities al the jobsite, like cost control, scheduling, manhours tracking, forecasting and estimating. Supervising 17 people at site.Total project cost: 420 million dollars.
  • Newmont Corporation
    Project Controls Manager
    Newmont Corporation Jul 2008 - Sep 2008
    Santiago De Chile
    Conga Project Feasibility/Basic Eng Study, Newmont-Yanacocha Cajamarca Peru. 4000 m.o.s.l. New concentrator plant to process 85000 tpd of Gold / Copper ore (1 SAG mill, 2 Ball mills). Responsible for all project controls related activities, like cost control, scheduling, manhours tracking, forecasting and estimating. Total project cost: 2500 million dollars.
  • Newmont Mining Corporation
    Field Project Controls Manager
    Newmont Mining Corporation Apr 2007 - Jun 2008
    Cajamarca, Peru
    Gold Mill Project, Newmont-Yanacocha Cajamarca Peru. 3700 m.o.s.l. New plant to process 13700 tpd of high grade oxide and transitional ores (1 SAG mill 32’x32’)Responsible for all project controls related activities at the Jobsite, like cost control, scheduling, manhours tracking, forecasting and estimating during all construction and commissioning phases. Completing the project on time and under the budget, for first time in a Newmont project.Total project cost: 240 million dollars.
  • Bechtel Corporation
    Project Controls Manager
    Bechtel Corporation Jun 2006 - Mar 2007
    Santiago De Chile
    Andina 230 ktpd Expansion Conceptual Engineering.Responsible for all project controls related activities, like cost control, scheduling, manhours tracking, forecasting and estimating.Capital cost estimate: 2500 million dollars.
  • Bechtel Corporation
    Latin America Regional Lead Estimator
    Bechtel Corporation Aug 2004 - May 2006
    Santiago De Chile
    Develop and update cost estimates for many projects like : Collahuasi Moly Plant Definitive Estimate (Chile) 35 million dollars.Cananea Expansion Project (Mexico) 120 million USD.Los Pelambres Expansion (Chile) 120 million USD evaluate expansion alternatives.PTMP(Codelco)Definitive Estimate (Chile) 120 mill USDCerro Casale Estimate Update (Chile) 1900 mill USDAndina Expansion Options study 2500 mill USDAndina 92 ktpd expansion 200 mill USDAndina 230 ktpd expansion 2500 mill USD
  • Bechtel Corporation
    Project Estimator Aws
    Bechtel Corporation Jul 2003 - Jul 2004
    Los Angeles, Ca
    AT&T Wireless Services Project. West Region.(Markets included are: Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, Phoenix, Las Vegas and others) AT&T was expanding and upgrading its national wireless network. This network was one of the largest wireless networks in the United States utilizing both TDMA and GSM technologies. Project scope calls for building GSM overlays of existing TDMA sites, also consider lo built new cell sites.Responsible for update and tracking the regional budget. forecasting, estimating and trending. Regional commitment authorizations, work authorizations, cost studies, reconciliations. Develop a WA tracking system. supervision of 2 estimators and 2 cost engineers.
  • Bechtel Corporation
    Lead Regional Cost Engineer
    Bechtel Corporation Nov 2002 - Jun 2003
    Chicago, Il
    Cingular GSM Services Project. Midwest Region. (18 Markets, 6,000 cell sites) (Wisconsin, Chicago, St Louis, Kansas, Cleveland, Detroit, Arkansas, Tulsa, Springfield, Indianapolis, Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and others)Cingular is expanding and upgrading its national wireless network. This network is one of the largest wireless networks in the United States utilizing both TDMA and GSM technologies. The initial project scope calls for building GSM overlays of existing TDMA markets. This initial upgrade and expansion scope involves overlaying Cingular's entire TDMA network.Responsible for region cost and scheduling, budget update and tracking, forecasting, estimating and trending. Regional commitment authorizations, work authorizations, cost studies, reconciliations. Supervising a total of 18 cost engineers and schedulers.
  • Bechtel Corporation
    Project Cost Engineer
    Bechtel Corporation Jan 2002 - Oct 2002
    Chicago, Il
    Chicago O’Hare T6 Expansion Project.Project consists of design and built Terminal 6 at the Chicago O’Hare International Airport. 759,000 square foot terminal complex. Permanent and Temporary concourse with 11 new gates and 2 relocated, revised alignment for the Airport Transit System (ATS) and new station at the terminal, parking structure with approx capacity of 2,800 spaces, new upper and lower level roadways plus modification to existing roads nearby.Phase I: 30% Design, 36.5 million dollars.Phase II budget= 1,000 millions dollarsCompany: BECHTEL (T6 Partners JV: Bechtel Infra, UBM, d’Escoto, Cotter, II in One, Riteway, Delgado)Responsible for construction phase budget tracking cost and quantities, (Translate Baseline Estimate into ESP database), assign and track budgets by construction work package, cash flow distribution, cost studies, reconciliations and develop a budget reporting application in Access.
  • Bechtel Corporation
    Project Controls Manager
    Bechtel Corporation Nov 2000 - Dec 2001
    Dallas, Tx
    EPCM Western Integrated Networks Project Dallas Market.Project considers build a data network at Dallas (fiber to the house). The network consists of one PPC, 16 HUB’s, 482 RT’s and 1071 Nodes, for a total of 3123 miles of plant and 481,765 household passed. Total Dallas investment: 245 million dollars. Responsible for tracking cost and quantities for Dallas city (PCWorks), do all project controls and accounting (like subcontracts invoices) activities in this market. Development of cost control and report systems in Access. Create reporting system, cash flows. Performed forecasting, estimating and trending.
  • Bechtel Corporation
    Lead Trend Engineer
    Bechtel Corporation Mar 1999 - Oct 2000
    Santiago De Chile
    EPC Cerro Matoso Expansion Project (Montelibano-Colombia) Expansion of an existing ferronikel facility from 175 dry metric tons per hour of ore feed to 355 tons per hour. This includes the adding of a second dryer, second Kiln and a second electric furnace. Total investment: 268 million dollars. Project Controls department, at the Santiago office.Company: BECHTEL (Bechtel-Hatch Joint Venture) main office at Santiago CHILE, furnace design office at Toronto CANADA, jobsite at Montelibano COLOMBIA. Responsible for place and track the Trend Program, and coordinate the 3 location trends. Budget maintenance, extractions, forecast and estimating. Responsible for keep ESP (estimating program) database updated including all budget transfers and trends, for the total project. Keeping control of all purchase orders and contracts budget and forecast, including all changes and revisions. PFSR support information (Project Financial Status Report)
  • Bechtel Corporation
    Cost & Commitment Supervisor
    Bechtel Corporation Mar 1996 - Feb 1999
    Santiago De Chile - Iquique, Chile
    EPCM Collahuasi Copper Project 350,000 t/y fine copper in concentrate (Iquique-Chile). 50,000 t/y of copper in cathode. Copper Complex total investment: 1,700 million dollars, Project Controls department. Santiago office (March 96 - June 97) and at the mine site (Ujina 4,800 m.o.s.l.): (July 97 – Jan99).Company: BECHTEL (Bechtel-Davy Joint Venture) Responsible for run the cost and commitment system for the total project, 1,700million dollars, including: oxide plant, concentrate plant, infrastructure area, pipeline and port, using for this purpose PICES software, specific developed by Bechtel. Responsible for setup the project assets register. Develop control and reporting systems in Access. Supervision of the cost and commitments group (2 people at Santiago office and 2 at the minesite). Project Financial Status Report support. Develop Pices and ESP presentations to the Client (Powerpoint) giving support and training.
  • Bechtel Corporation
    Trend Engineer
    Bechtel Corporation Apr 1994 - Feb 1996
    Santiago De Chile
    EPC Mantoverde SX-EW Copper Project SX-EW process plant. 42,000 t/y Copper (Chañaral-Chile).Total Cost: 57 millions dollars. Project Controls department. Santiago office and minesite. Responsible for evaluate project budget deviations. Total budget update, and others. Total project forecast, EPPR control, PFSR update, monthly cash flow, scheduling, historical report.
  • Bechtel Corporation
    Cost Engineer
    Bechtel Corporation Sep 1992 - Mar 1994
    Santiago, Chile - Iquique, Chile
    EPCM Cerro Colorado leach SX-EW Copper Project. 40,000 t/y Copper (Iquique-Chile). 2,800 m.o.s.l., Total cost 170 millions USD. Project Control department. Santiago office: 9 months, at minesite: 10 monthsProject cost control using Bechtel standard software PICES and ESP. Project budget deviation estimates. Total Budget update and maintenance. Contracts control and supervision, Physical progress and financial advance. Manhour tracking and manhour control. Purchase orders control. Historical report.

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Project Control Epc Mining Cost Control Project Planning Contract Management Feasibility Studies Project Engineering Epcm Engineering Ms Project Construction Commissioning Project Estimation Forecasting Cash Flow Change Management Trend Analysis Progress Monitoring Cost Reporting Cost Engineering Cpm Scheduling Construction Estimating Budget Monitoring Budget Management Budget Forecasts Staffing Plans Financial Forecasting Financial Analysis Pcm Value Engineering Engineering Management Procurement Contracts Subcontracts Management Performance Management Construction Management Professional Services Concentrators Teamwork Team Leadership Team Building Microsoft Project Project Management Primavera P6

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