About
A team built on experience
FHI was founded on the conviction that tailings engineering requires technical rigor, proven experience and an agile structure. Our team brings together professionals who have led tailings, geotechnical and monitoring projects in Chilean large-scale mining and in international operations. Each specialist contributes direct experience in the disciplines critical to tailings management.
We combine the proximity and flexibility of a boutique firm with the technical rigor and standards of global consultancies. We work under GISTM, ICMM, CDA frameworks and Chilean SERNAGEOMIN and SEIA (Law 19.300) regulations, delivering verifiable technical decisions across the facility life cycle.
Mission
Deliver engineering excellence that protects people, the environment and our clients' assets.
Vision
Be the reference consultancy for tailings engineering and geotechnics in Chile and Latin America.
Values
Principles that guide every technical decision
Safety
The safety of people and communities is our first priority in every technical decision.
Precision
Every analysis, model and report is grounded in verifiable data and recognized methodologies.
Sustainability
We integrate environmental and social criteria at every stage of the project life cycle.
Innovation
We adopt leading technology when it delivers real value to technical management and decision-making.
Structure
Organization chart
An agile structure with clear technical leadership and specialist teams by discipline.
Board
Partners Council
Governance & strategy
General Management
General Manager
Executive leadership
Technical Direction
Technical Director
Tailings · Geotechnics · GISTM
Operations
Operations Manager
Campaigns · Field · QA/QC
Commercial
Commercial Manager
Clients · Proposals
Specialty
Geotechnics & Slopes
CPT / SPT · Modeling
Specialty
Monitoring & InSAR
Instrumentation · Alerts
Specialty
Constructability
Works · Interfaces
Specialty
Hydrogeology & Environment
Seepage · Closure · EIA
Team
Specialists in the critical disciplines
FHI's team brings together professionals experienced in geotechnics, hydrogeology, structural geology, civil engineering, instrumentation monitoring and environmental management.
Our specialists have contributed to projects spanning foundation and borrow-material characterization, drainage and seepage-control design, static and pseudostatic numerical stability modeling, and monitoring programs using satellite InSAR and piezometer networks — complemented by Chilean regulatory frameworks (SERNAGEOMIN, SEIA) and international standards (GISTM, ICMM, CDA).
