Senior Metallurgist

St Barbara Limited; Middle Musquodoboit; On-site; CAD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health benefits

RRSP matching program

Job summary

St Barbara Limited is seeking a Senior Metallurgist for their Touquoy mine site in Nova Scotia. This full-time role includes leadership in safety practices, budgeting, and ensuring gold production targets are met efficiently.

The ideal candidate will possess a Bachelor's degree in Metallurgical Engineering, at least eight years of experience, and a PMP designation. Join a company committed to employment equity and professional development opportunities in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of eight years of experience in an industrial environment, with 7+ years in leadership roles.
• Theoretical and practical experience with metallurgical processes preferred.
• Ability to develop and interpret metallurgical test work.

Responsibilities

• Lead safe work practices and procedures in the metallurgy department.
• Identify and investigate safety issues continuously.
• Oversee budgeting and forecasting for the Tailings, Metallurgy department.
• Ensure gold production targets are met safely and efficiently.
• Train plant operating personnel on metallurgical best practices.

Skills

Metallurgical Engineering

Project Management

Leadership

Problem Solving

Metallurgical Test Work

Education

Bachelor's degree in Metallurgical Engineering or related field

Registration as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.)

Project Management Professional (PMP) Designation

Job description

Senior Metallurgist

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.

We would like to thank all those who apply; however, only those selected for an interview will be notified.

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

Please understand that screening and interviewing may take place prior to the advertised close date.