Senior Process Engineer - Mine Backfill & Tailings Management

SLR Consulting (Canada) Ltd; Northeastern Ontario; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Full-time, permanent role

Career growth opportunities

Wellness initiatives

Job summary

SLR Consulting (Americas) invites a Senior Process Engineer to join our North American mine waste engineering team. You will contribute to tailings dewatering and paste backfill design, driving sustainability and efficiency in underground mining and surface disposal, with emphasis on current industry guidelines.

The role requires strong written and verbal communication, independence, and collaboration with clients and contractors, plus a safety-first mindset. Travel up to 10% may be involved.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in the mining industry.
• 5 years of operational experience at a mineral processing facility.
• Familiar with NI 43-101, JORC, SAMREC and related reporting codes.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for studies within a multi-disciplinary mining team.
• Develop backfill concepts for planners up to executive level clients.
• Mentor and direct project engineers and drafting team.
• Conduct economic evaluation of plant solutions.
• Drive project scope, time, and budget to meet deliverables.

Skills

Technical leadership

Project management

Communication

Mentoring

Education

P.Eng. license / Professional Engineer

Tools

MS Project

AutoCAD

Deswik

MS Office

Job description

We are SLR Consulting (Americas), a 1500+ team of advisory, environmental, engineering, and regulatory professionals across Canada, the United States, and LATAM. We deliver environmental and sustainability services to our clients through the integration of over 30 advisory, technical environmental, and engineering disciplines to help clients address some of their most complex challenges around sustainability. We are Making Sustainability Happen.

Role

As a Senior Process Engineer, you will play an important role on our North American mine waste engineering team. The role involves contributing to the design of tailings dewatering and paste backfill strategies, driving both sustainability and efficiency in underground mining and tailings surface disposal. You’ll bring experience and understanding of current industry trends and guidelines on design, estimation, planning, as well as an interest in working collaboratively to find solutions to complex and interesting problems. Success in this role will require exceptional written and verbal communication skills, the ability to work independently and effectively with co-workers, clients, and contractors, and a “safety-first” attitude.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for engineering studies within a multi-disciplinary team, leveraging experience and competencies in a range of mining operations.
• Contribute, through innovative and entrepreneurial thinking and strategic aptitude, in developing backfill concepts that will be presented to planners up to senior executive/corporate level clients.
• Provide technical direction to project engineers and mentoring young engineers.
• Conduct economic valuation of different plant solutions.
• Manage technical work to meet scope, time and budget.
• Demonstrate proficiency in writing and review of proposals and project reports.
• Demonstrate competency in MS Office software, Experience with MS Project, AutoCAD, and Deswik is desirable.
• Provide guidance and direction to the drafting team to generate drawings, schematics alongside the associated discipline engineers for support on proposals and plant design/build opportunities.
• Perform field work, data analysis and calculations.
• Support the implementation of plant design standards across project delivery and engineering disciplines.
• Support the preparation of technical documentation including design criteria, calculations, process flowsheets, P&IDs, control philosophy's, reports etc.
• Support commercial activities, including writing, reviewing proposals, estimates and quotations.
• Periodically travel to site to support business development activities, including inspections, audits and design/build opportunities.
• Periodically travel to technical conferences or conventions to support business development activities.

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package including comprehensive benefits, vacation, and a suite of wellness initiatives.
• The salary range for this position is $150,000-$180,000.
• Final agreed upon compensation will be commensurate with individual education, professional designation, experience, internal parity, and location.
• Full-time, permanent role with opportunities for professional growth and advancement.
• We care about investing in our employees for the long-run, and if you ask our team, they’ll tell you that’s just one of the many benefits of working here.
• We want to be a place where you can experience career growth and satisfaction for many years.

Qualifications/Education/Memberships

• 10+ years experience in the mining industry.
• 5 years of operational experience at a mineral processing facility.
• Understanding of impacts of mineralogy on processes and material properties.
• Experience in dewatering technologies and interpreting testwork results in scaling and sizing of equipment.
• Registered or qualified for registration as a Professional Engineer in Canada or the equivalent in the USA, UK, Australia, or South Africa.
• Familiar with international and public disclosure and reporting codes, including NI 43-101, JORC, SAMREC, Competent Persons Reports, and Mineral Expert Reports etc.
• Willingness and ability to travel within the domestically and internationally up to 10% of your time as required.
• Fluency in any of Spanish/French/Portuguese languages would be advantageous.

SLR strives to build diverse teams that reflect the communities we work in, and encourages applications from traditionally underrepresented groups including women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as 2SLGBTQI+, veterans, and people with disabilities.

When you join SLR, you’ll work alongside some of the world’s leading advisors and technicians on projects of global importance in the environmental space. We know sustainability starts from within. And no matter how good we are today, we can always do better. We continually work on our internal ethics to set the standard for organisations and reflect the advice we give to clients.

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