ScaleneWorks People Solutions LLP · 4 hours ago

Metallurgical Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Responsible for management and oversight of strategic metallurgical projects.

Identify and implement opportunities for improvement in metallurgical performance of processing plants either through continuous improvement, growth projects, or through deployment of leading-edge technology and innovation and its transfer.

Participate in sound technical metallurgical processing due diligence exercises on acquisitions, mergers, and partnerships.

Promote Industry Best Practices at operating companies across the org.

Continuous improvement of production planning and forecasting.

Supervises and develops metallurgical staff as well as undertaking coaching and mentoring metallurgical staff at operating sites Leads the process of forecasting life-of-mine mill production for the assigned operation.

Anticipates threats and opportunities to the product forecast over short, medium, and long-term horizons and recommends strategies to mitigate, supported by sound ore characterization as well as modelling and simulation.

Selects critical mineral processing technology and equipment using sound decision analysis methods that takes into account technical, financial (capital and operating expenditures), operating and maintenance data, whilst agreeing decision methodology and evaluation with key stakeholders.

As part of the mining company owner’s team on growth projects interact with engineering companies and set the following aspects for these projects: the flowsheet (including mass and energy balance), critical equipment and technology selections, process design criteria, process control and automation strategy, metallurgical sampling and accounting plan.

Detailed process design for mineral processing oreflow systems, crushing and screening plants, concentrators, dewatering plants and ship loading facilities Contributes to the preparation of technical reports and Approval for Expenditure documents (AFEs) for major projects.

Provides data analysis, economic evaluations including review of operational data to determine cause of production shortfalls and recommends solutions

Qualification

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Mineral ProcessingComminutionProject ManagementJKSIMMETMetso VPSAminproFlotationLiquid-Solid SeparationData AnalysisEconomic EvaluationsCoachingTechnical ReportingMentoring

Required

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Ten (10) years of experience in mineral processing

Five (5) years of experience in a mineral processing concentrator

Three (3) years of experience working on large growth projects involving mining and engineering companies

Proficiency in the use of the following software packages: JKSIMMET, Metso VPS, Aminpro

Recognized amongst peers as a Subject Matter Expert in comminution (including crushing and grinding), flotation, and liquid-solid separation (including thickening and filtration)