Manager, Metallurgy and Process Design
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Managing strategic metallurgy and mineral-processing projects for Freeport-McMoRan, a global mining company. Providing technical oversight, operational support, mentorship, and reserve-reporting expertise.
Responsibilities:
- Manage and oversee strategic metallurgical projects across growth projects, operational support functions, and corporate initiatives
- Provide direct technical support, mentorship, and advisement on mineral processing topics
- Promote industry best practices across operating companies
- Potentially perform reserve reporting sign-off
- Lead strategic project planning, including project identification and formulation, decision methodology, stakeholder evaluation, and resource definition
- Interact with internal and external resources on growth projects
- Execute technical development work and quantify cost impacts
- Regularly communicate project status and outcomes to stakeholders
- Perform metallurgical support activities for project sites, including reserve reporting functions as required
- Prepare annual budgets and resourcing plans
- Recruit personnel and manage small technical teams
- Prepare and present updates to executive management and external business partners
- Develop technical materials for patents and conferences
- Maintain and expand an industry network in extractive metallurgy and mineral processing
- Work virtually with occasional travel for meetings, training, team events, and mine sites up to 25% as business needs require
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering
- Ten (10) years of experience in mineral processing and leaching processes
- Five (5) years of experience in operations roles, preferably leading teams
- Three (3) years of experience working on projects or other technical initiatives involving mining and engineering companies
- Strong experience affecting change in operating processing plants
- Strong working knowledge of geo-metallurgical testing, data interpretation, and modeling tools for forecasting
- Strong working knowledge of processing techniques of large Porphyry copper deposits
- Demonstrated history of interpreting geo-metallurgical results and performing regression analyses and/or simulations to develop grade and recovery models for ore types
- Demonstrated data-centric capabilities using structured problem-solving approaches with statistics and regression tools
- Specialized technical expertise in three disciplines and general knowledge in five disciplines, including crushing, grinding, flotation, copper smelting, precious metal refining, solvent extraction, electrowinning, liquid-solid separation, tailings, materials handling, process modeling and simulation, statistical analysis, process control, sampling and assaying, and metallurgical accounting
- Broad experience in mineral processing plant technical support or operations management
- MBA or related certification or experience in financial and economic evaluations
- Experience managing small technical teams, including direct supervision
- Experience managing large and complex multi-discipline projects
- Excellent communication skills and strong execution capability
- Excellent cross-discipline communication skills
- Mandatory pre-employment drug testing as allowed by applicable laws
- Ability to undertake required international and domestic travel
Benefits:
- Affordable medical, dental and vision benefits
- Company-paid life and disability insurance
- RRSP plan with employer contribution/match
- Paid time off, paid sick time, holiday pay
- Additional discretionary and incentive payment considerations based on company and individual performance
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