Superintendent, Metallurgy ( Mount Milligan)

Centerra Gold; Fort St. James; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Benefits

Camp-based schedule

Job summary

Centerra Gold in Fort St. James, BC, is seeking a Superintendent, Metallurgy to lead metallurgical, process engineering, and on-site assay functions, ensuring safe operation and optimal plant performance. This camp-based role offers a 7 days on/7 days off schedule, with duties spanning monitoring, data analysis, and strategy across comminution, flotation, and gravity recovery.

Qualifications

• Experience leading metallurgical monitoring to optimize throughput and recovery.
• Ability to manage metallurgical balance and assaying data.
• Strong leadership across process engineering and assay functions.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily/weekly metallurgical monitoring to optimize throughput, recovery, concentrate grade, and reagent consumption.
• Analyze mill KPIs and implement improvement strategies.
• Manage metallurgical testwork programs including variability testing and circuit optimization.
• Maintain assaying and metal accounting systems and reconciliation with the mill.
• Lead metallurgical response strategies to ore/mineralogy changes.

Skills

Metallurgical leadership

Process optimization

Data analysis

Job description

Superintendent, Metallurgy ( Mount Milligan)

Job No:MTM236

Location:Fort St. James, BC

• Become a valuable addition to Centerra's Mount Milligan Mine team
• Boost your career by joining an establishedorganization
• Receive a competitive wage of $150,000 – 170,000 per year, plus bonus and benefits

About Centerra Gold

Headquartered in Toronto, Centerra Gold (TSX: CG) is one of the leading North American gold and copper producers engaged in the operation, exploration, development, and acquisition of quality mining assets in Asia, North America, and other markets worldwide.

Centerra’s vision is to build a team-based culture of excellence that responsibly delivers sustainable value and growth. We are committedto the safety, integrity, ethics, and fairness of our operations,promoting the highest standards of ethical business conduct ofour employees, officers, and directors.

For more information, please see our website .

About Mount Milligan Mine

Located approximately 155 kilometres northwest of Prince George in centralBC,the Mount Milligan Mineis a conventional truck-shovel open-pit copper and gold mine and concentrator with a 60,000 tpd capacity copper flotation processing plant.

Mount Milligan operates withcomfortablecamp accommodations equipped with private washrooms, TV, Wi‑Fi, an onsite gym, and other recreational activities. Bus transportation to and from site is provided free of charge from several locations within the region.

Mount Milligan promotes a drug and alcohol-free workplace and has adopted a zero-tolerance policy with respect to alcohol or unauthorized drugs on site.

About the Opportunity

Mount Milligan is seeking aSuperintendent, Metallurgy to lead the metallurgical, process engineering, and on-site assay functions to generate accurate data, maximize metal recovery, optimize plant performance, and ensure stable, efficient, and safe operation of the processing plant. This role provides technical leadership across comminution, flotation, gravity recovery, dewatering, sampling, and quantitative assaying within the mine. This role is critical to Mount Milligan’s copper–gold concentrator performance, requiring strong mine-to-mill integration, ore variability understanding and management, concentrate quality control, and leadership of recovery forecasting to support safe and profitable operations.

This is a camp based position working a 7 days on/7days off schedule.

Key Responsibilities:

Metallurgical & Process Performance

• Lead daily/weekly metallurgical monitoring to optimize throughput, recovery, concentrate grade, and reagent consumption.
• Analyze mill KPIs (grinding performance, flotation response, gold recovery, recovery-by-size curves, etc.) and implement improvement strategies.
• Manage metallurgical testwork programs including variability testing, reagent scheme development, grinding/circuit optimization, and geometallurgy.
• Maintain the assaying, metallurgical balance, metal accounting systems, and reconciliation with the mill.
• Lead metallurgical response strategies to changes in ore and mineralogy.

Technical Leadership & Strategy

• Coordinate with corporate resources and collaboratively provide long-term strategic direction for process improvements, technology upgrades, debottlenecking, and cost reductions.
• Contribute to metallurgical aspects of life-of-mine planning including ore blending, ore characterization, and processing forecasts.
• Champion advanced process control, machine learning, and real-time metallurgy.
• Drive automated KPI dashboards and decision support tools.
• Support commercial team on concentrate performance and payable metals.

Operational Support

• Provide coaching and support to plant operations to troubleshoot processing challenges.
• Oversee metall