Remote Process Metallurgist & Mineral Processing Advisor

Axyde Analytics; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Axyde Analytics is assembling a U.S.-eligible consulting team for a 24-month Global Critical Minerals project. This remote role focuses on ore-to-product screening, feasibility studies and technical support for scoping, budgets and reports.

Senior metallurgists with experience in critical minerals, process options, and pilot-scale assessment will drive evaluations, risk analysis and implementation recommendations for government-related deliverables.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of directly relevant metallurgy, mineral processing or refining experience.
• Critical-minerals experience strongly preferred.
• U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident; able to certify eligibility before proposal use or engagement.

Responsibilities

• Lead rapid technical screens of ore-to-product pathways, recovery assumptions, process maturity, scale-up risk and infrastructure dependencies.
• Evaluate comminution, flotation, gravity/magnetic separation, leaching, solvent extraction, precipitation, hydrometallurgy, pyrometallurgy and refining routes as applicable.
• Review metallurgical testwork, mass balances, recoveries, reagent/water/energy demand, residues, emissions, product specifications and marketability.
• Develop or review scopes, schedules and budgets for test programs, pilot plants, feasibility studies and technical assistance.
• Contribute defensible findings, risk registers, cost assumptions and implementation recommendations to concise USTDA deliverables.
• At least 10 years of directly relevant metallurgy, mineral-processing or refining experience; critical-minerals experience strongly preferred.
• Ability to distinguish conventional, emerging and unproven process technologies and explain scale-up and integration risks to decision-makers.

Skills

Metallurgy

Mineral processing

Feasibility studies

Pilot plant design

Due diligence

Process optimization

Scale-up analysis

Risk assessment

Education

B.S. or higher in metallurgical, mineral-processing, chemical, mining or related engineering

Job description

Axyde Analytics is assembling a U.S.-eligible consulting team for a 24-month Global Critical Minerals project. This remote role focuses on ore-to-product screening, feasibility studies and technical support for scoping, budgets and reports.

Senior metallurgists with experience in critical minerals, process options, and pilot-scale assessment will drive evaluations, risk analysis and implementation recommendations for government-related deliverables.