August 26, 2026 • 3 min read
Seeing the whole picture: Full project delivery in practice
We’re not just delivering projects; we’re delivering businesses that impact people’s lives.
For Andrea Casciano, that distinction defines what it takes to lead project delivery at scale. As Senior Vice President of Major Projects and Programmes (MPP) for Latin America (LATAM), she brings together strategy, execution and market insight to deliver complex projects that create real, positive impacts.
Andrea joined our team in 2007 and has built her career across engineering, project delivery and operational leadership roles in Brazil and Chile. Throughout that time, her focus on execution and clear understanding of where value is created have remained constant. “You’re not selling hours; you’re delivering a business that impacts people’s lives,” she says.
That mindset shapes how she leads: treating every project not as a standalone asset, but as a fully functioning business. A business that must perform, deliver returns and create tangible, lasting value for customers and communities alike.
Delivering value in a highly competitive market
Today, Andrea’s working across Argentina, Chile and Peru at the centrer of one of the world’s fastest-growing mining markets. With over 60 years of history in LATAM, Santiago is home to our center of excellence for lithium, copper, underground mining and material handling, with more than 800 professionals supporting local and international work. In Chile, over 90 percent of our portfolio is focused on mining, reflecting the high demand for commodities critical to the energy transition.
For Andrea, this is how our full project delivery model makes the difference. She describes major projects as strategic partners for our customers businesses that require planning, prioritization, market insight and a clear path from early studies to execution.
“We started in the early phase with pre‑feasibility studies where we brought execution-led thinking, building right‑to‑left schedules and deploying our tools and systems to create smooth transitions between the EPCM phases,” she says of the major Rincon lithium project.
By embedding execution-led thinking early and anticipating long-lead items, her team can move quickly once project approvals are secured. Reducing delays, improving capital efficiency and giving customers greater certainty in a highly competitive market.
She pairs this with a strong focus on digital delivery. From working with Building Information Modeling (BIM), O3 – our global standard tool for advanced work packaging – and all sets of tools to integrated systems that create a ‘single source of truth’, Andrea’s helped embed data-driven ways of working that improve transparency, speed and decision-making. In Chile, this commitment is reflected in our achievement of the BIM ISO 19650 certification. This ensures teams spend less time finding problems and more time solving them.
Beauty, complexity and thousands of moving parts
Despite the scale of her projects, Andrea still finds moments of perspective on site.
“When you see the landscape, it looks like it’s painted by hand, the sky is beautiful,” she says about her site visit to the Rincon project in Argentina.
And behind that beauty sits enormous complexity. Delivering a project of this scale in a remote environment requires careful planning, coordination and a constant focus on safety and execution.
In remote environments, like on the Rincon project, delivery goes far beyond end-to-end delivery. It involves creating the full conditions for people to live and work safely – accommodation, food, wellbeing facilities and a strong on-site culture.
“It’s not only the project itself,” Andrea explains. “It’s all that the project requires.”
That same thinking extends to local communities. Andrea describes how training centers and local labor strategies help ensure projects create opportunities in the regions where we operate. “We generate work – directly and indirectly – for the entire chain,” she says. It’s a practical expression of full project delivery: not just building assets but creating lasting value around them.
Delivering what matters
Despite the demanding nature of her work, Andrea keeps her personal life top of the list. After weeks of travel, she recalls her daughter calling, upset she might miss watching Brazil play in the World Cup together.
It’s a small moment that reflects a bigger truth: delivering complex projects isn’t just about systems, strategy or technical excellence. At its core, it’s about people, priorities and knowing when the most important deliverable is simply being present. So of course, Andrea made sure she got home just in time for the game.
Andrea’s story reflects our full project delivery capability in action: combining early strategy, execution discipline, digital innovation and human leadership to deliver the world’s critical infrastructure.
