Keenan is a registered professional engineer with real-world mining operations experience, strong technical expertise, and excellent managerial skills. As Director, Greater Toronto Area (GTA), he is responsible for driving the growth of the GTA by leveraging industry knowledge and strategic partnerships. Keenan advises on execution strategies, identifies and pursues business opportunities and maintains key client relationships. He is responsible for monitoring industry trends, developing client understanding, managing proposals and supporting business growth.
Keenan’s deep technical knowledge and experience in operations management, operational and financial planning and budgeting, metal accounting, major capital projects and business case development makes him a valuable contributor to our clients’ complex projects.
His career began as a process engineer at South African Platinum Group, where he focused on continuous improvement initiatives and monitoring process plant key performance metrics. He later transitioned to the processing technical team as a Technical Specialist, working on numerous concentrator and smelter major capital projects. He became Technical Manager of Anglo American’s Amandelbult Operations (including a JV company) in 2018 and was promoted to Principal Process Engineer in 2021 to provide technical and leadership expertise to all of Anglo American Platinum’s concentrator operations in South Africa.
Since joining Ausenco in 2022, Keenan has worked on numerous key projects including, Canada Nickel’s Crawford feasibility study, Dumont Nickel’s feasibility study update, Treasury Metals’ Goliath Gold Complex pre-feasibility study, Itafos’s Farim feasibility study, Probe Gold’s Novador preliminary economic assessment and Nighthawk Gold’s (now STLLR Gold) preliminary economic assessment. Other noteworthy clients that Keenan has supported through various project phases include Sibelco, Agnico Eagle Mining, O3 Mining, Standard Lithium and Generation Mining.
Keenan obtained his Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering and a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Chemical Engineering from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. He is registered with the Engineering Council of South Africa.
Country experience:
- Canada
- Guinea
- Mexico
- South Africa
- United States
- United Kingdom
- Zimbabwe