Remote Senior Metallurgy & Mineral Processing Advisor

Axyde Analytics

United States

Remote

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Axyde Analytics is assembling a U.S.-eligible, remote-friendly team for a 24-month Global Critical Minerals project scoping services. The engagement is contingent on contract award and assignment demand.

The Senior Technical Advisor will lead rapid technical screens of ore-to-product pathways and evaluate processing routes, testwork, and budget considerations, with international travel as needed. This role requires deep metallurgical expertise and the ability to distill complex data into

Qualifications

Ten+ years of directly relevant metallurgy/mineral-processing or refining experience.
B.S. or higher in metallurgical, mineral-processing, chemical, mining or related engineering discipline.
Experience with scoping, prefeasibility/feasibility, pilot, due-diligence or operating-improvement assignments.
Ability to distinguish conventional, emerging and unproven process technologies and explain scale-up risks to decision-makers.

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.