Jorge Murillo is a Senior Principal Geotechnical and Tailings Engineer based in Spain with more than 20 years of international experience focused on geotechnical projects, earthwork designs, and mine-waste projects and with significant tailings management responsibilities, often as Engineer of Record (EoR) and Independent Reviewer (IR). Jorge is Senior Services Director for Iberia.
Jorge brings practical experience conducting and directing geotechnical studies for civil works, mining, and manufacturing. He specializes in calculations to assess dam stability, especially for tailings storage facilities (TSFs), as well as to support excavations, foundations, and slide correction. He also develops execution criteria and recommendations for earthworks and creates geotechnical reports on behalf of clients in the mining, manufacturing, and civil-works sectors. In recent years, Jorge has supported several tailings dam projects throughout their full life cycles, serving as EoR, IR, and third-party auditor-advisor.
Throughout his career, Jorge has supported mine waste and tailings projects in many countries and with varied challenges, discussing, sharing, and learning with practitioners across disciplines and international borders. He offers clients the benefit of his in-depth experience with implementation of the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM) and his familiarity with international best practices. In the first half of his career, Jorge became involved with a TSF with a GISTM Consequence Class of Extreme and is currently EoR of this facility. This experience gave him an in-depth understanding of the evolution of a TSF during the GISTM implementation and continues to inform his work for clients today.
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Career Summary of Jorge Murillo, MAIG
- Specialties: Tailings Dams; EoR; Geotechnical Engineering; Earthworks Design and Construction; Project Management
- Practice Areas: Civil Infrastructure, Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Waste Management, Facility Hazards
- Disciplines: Geological Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering
- Education: MSc, Geotechnical Engineering, University Complutense of Madrid, 2006
- Registration: Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (MAIG Member ID 8473); Qualified/Competent Person (QP/CP) in Tailings Engineering and Geotechnical Assessments, Australian Institute of Geoscientists
