Senior Principal, Technical Studies & Feasibility

Hecla Mining Company; Coeur d'Alene (ID); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Hecla Mining Company in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho seeks a Senior Principal, Technical Studies to lead the definition, execution, and delivery of technical studies across operating mines, growth projects, and joint ventures.

This hands-on role coordinates mining, geology, metallurgical, geotechnical, tailings, water, infrastructure, environmental, and financial workstreams to produce financially robust, decision-ready outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mining Engineering or related field.
• 15+ years of technical mining experience including leadership of studies through PEA, prefeasibility, and feasibility in an operating company, consultancy, or both.
• Demonstrated track record of studies and reports that supported decisions and led to action.
• Substantial experience selecting, scoping, and managing engineering consultants, and an established network sufficient to mobilize suitable expertise quickly.
• Underground narrow-vein and polymetallic (silver, zinc, lead, gold) experience strongly preferred.
• Direct experience preparing, coordinating, or contributing to technical reports under S-K 1300 and NI 43-101 required; Qualified Person status or eligibility an asset.
• Professional registration required: PE or P.Eng., or PG or P.Geo. for geoscience disciplines

Responsibilities

• Define the business question and the decision each study must support before scoping work; select the study type and level of definition.
• Work with the corporate/site discipline leads to set study assumptions, standards, and process, and apply them consistently across every workstream.
• Execute studies personally where scale permits and lead integrated Hecla and external teams where it does not, integrating the mining, geology, metallurgical, geotechnical, tailings, water, infrastructure, environmental and financial workstreams.
• Lead trade-off and option studies, including alternatives analysis, capital and operating trade-offs, and value engineering, and build, audit, and defend the economic models supporting them.
• Lead technical due diligence evaluations on acquisitions, divestments, and joint venture opportunities, frequently on compressed timelines and incomplete data.
• Support site studies and evaluations requested by site General Managers, the COO, or VP Operations, with scope and priority set through the VP, Technical Services.
• Author and edit study documentation, taking personal responsibility for the clarity and defensibility of the written product; manage study scope, cost, and schedule to commitment.
• Provide input to the annual studies budget and forecast.
• Complete studies through handover to the project execution team, transferring basis of design, cost and schedule basis, and outstanding risks.

Skills

Mine economic evaluation

Cash flow modeling

Deswik

Vulcan

Surpac

Geology

Geotechnical

Metallurgy

Tailings

Water

Environmental

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mining Engineering

Tools

Deswik

Vulcan

Surpac

Job description

Hecla Mining Company in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho seeks a Senior Principal, Technical Studies to lead the definition, execution, and delivery of technical studies across operating mines, growth projects, and joint ventures.

This hands-on role coordinates mining, geology, metallurgical, geotechnical, tailings, water, infrastructure, environmental, and financial workstreams to produce financially robust, decision-ready outcomes.