Santiago joined our team in 2021 to initiate our Iberian business and is based in P&C’s Madrid Office. He is a Chartered Mining Engineer with over 18 years of experience working on mining projects.

Santiago has been involved in the design, construction site supervision, and site inspection of tailings management facilities and waste dumps globally. He specializes in designing and installing liner systems and QA/QC programs of liner systems along with MQA for construction materials.

Santiago focuses on mining processing and mine waste management, being involved in the review, conceptual and basic design, and equipment sizing of paste plant and paste backfill distribution systems. He also has experience in Mine Closure Plans for TMF and Mines as well as experience in due diligence and Phase I & Phase II ESA for manufacturing.

Santiago has worked within a multidisciplinary design team on several mining and industrial projects globally for various international clients such as ALCOA, Lundin Mining, First Quantum, Glencore, Trafigura, Sandfire, Orvana, KGHM, and others.