Senior Metallurgist

St Barbara Limited; Middle Musquodoboit; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health benefits

RRSP matching program

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

St Barbara Limited is looking for a Senior Metallurgist at the Touquoy mine site, located near Middle Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia. This full-time position involves leading safety practices, ensuring compliance, and overseeing budgeting for the metallurgy department. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in Metallurgical Engineering and at least eight years of relevant experience.

The role emphasizes training, optimizing processes, and achieving production targets. St Barbara is committed to equal opportunity and encourages diversity within its workforce.

Qualifications

• Minimum eight years of experience in an industrial environment.
• Theoretical and practical experience with various metallurgical processes preferred.
• Ability to develop and interpret metallurgical test work.

Responsibilities

• Leading the implementation of safe work practices.
• Creating and maintaining safe work procedures.
• Overseeing budgeting and forecasting for the metallurgy department.
• Ensuring gold production targets are met safely.
• Training plant operating personnel on metallurgical best practices.

Skills

Metallurgical engineering

Leadership development

Budgeting and forecasting

Project management

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Metallurgical Engineering

Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) certification

Project Management Professional (PMP) Designation

Job description

Atlantic Operations is a wholly owned subsidiary of St Barbara Limited, an ASX listed gold producer and explorer with mining assets in Canada and Australia. We are currently seeking a Senior Metallurgist. This role is a full-time, max-term position, reporting to the Site Manager and will be based at our Touquoy mine site located approximately 1 hour northeast of Halifax, near Middle Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia.

The Opportunity

• Leading the implementation of safe work practices by ensuring work conditions and procedures within the Department are held to a high standard.
• Proactively identifying safety issues and investigating all safety and health concerns and continuously enhancing safety measures.
• Creating and maintaining safe work procedures (SOP) and practices, as well as ensuring compliance of yourself and your department by completing all required training on time. Where procedures do not exist, the Senior Metallurgist will ensure that the appropriate risk assessments are conducted.
• Creating, maintaining, managing, executing and approving the Atlantic Operations’ TMF Operation, Maintenance, and Surveillance (OMS) Manual; TMF Operational Preparedness and Response Plan (OPRP); and the TMF Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan (EPRP).
• Overseeing budgeting and forecasting of the Tailings, Metallurgy department, and offsite Assay Lab work across the Atlantic Operations.
• Producing accurate metallurgical balance on a daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.
• Ensuring gold production targets are met or exceeded in a safe and efficient manner by analyzing production trends, developing & optimizing metallurgical KPIs and providing systems by which these parameters can be monitored by the process operations team.
• Training and supporting plant operating personnel on industry standard methods, metallurgical best practices including, but not limited to, sampling and sample preparation methods and KPI monitoring.

Our Successful Candidate Will Demonstrate The Following

• Bachelor's degree in Metallurgical Engineering, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline from a recognized university.
• Registration in good standing as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) with Engineers Nova Scotia or must be eligible for immediate transfer or registration via interprovincial mobility, including successfully passing the National Professional Practice Examination (NPPE).
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Designation.
• A minimum of eight years of pertinent experience in an industrial environment with at least 7 years of progressive leadership development.
• Theoretical and practical experience with grinding, gravity recovery, CIL, Zadra elution and/or cyanide detoxification, and tailings circuits preferred but not required.
• Ability to develop, perform and interpret Metallurgical test work.
• Must possess a systematic approach to problems solving and decision making.

About Us

• 'Grow our own Success' approach with a preference to develop and promote internally.
• Developed and structured professional development opportunities and educational assistance.
• Competitive compensation, health benefits and RRSP matching program.
• 2020 PDAC Viola R. MacMillan Award recipients for developing the Touquoy open pit mine and consolidating other gold deposits near Moose River.
• Be a part of the high performing St Barbara community – a proud Equal Opportunity Employer and Employer of Choice.

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to employment equity and encourage applications from women, aboriginal peoples and members of visible minorities and we provide nil gender pay gap in like for like roles and a commitment to addressing pay equity and gender equality through our recruitment, promotions, reward and recognition programs.

Members of the Mi’ kmaq community are encouraged to self‑identify in your cover letter.

For further information about St Barbara, visit https://stbarbaragold.ca