As our Chief Metallurgist, you will provide metallurgical supervision, oversight, and assistance in a Lead-Zinc-Silver surface mill and concentrator at a producing hard rock mining operation. You’ll oversee all metallurgical aspects of milling operations: grinding, flotation, gravity, and de-watering. You will be called upon to provide guidance to the Metallurgists from an overview perspective, giving feedback to meet long term goals and operational targets.

SAFETY, HEALTH & ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES Include, but are not limited to:

• Display due diligence in safety & health, and environmental matters and lead by example to ensure the successful implementation of the Safety & Health Management System, and the Environmental Management System

• Promote open communication and cooperation

• Ensure that all employees, contractors, and visitors are informed of safety, health, and environmental issues on site and distribute relevant safety, health, and environmental information

• Ensure Job Hazard Analyses (JHAs) are completed for appropriate tasks and participate in the process

• Undertake safety and health audits and inspections and interact with personnel concerning improving work practices and following up on action items

• Support all personnel in achieving and maintaining desired safety, health, and environmental outcomes

• Recognize superior safety, health, and environmental performance to help increase commitment and participation

• Manage, notify, report, and investigate incidents and hazards in a timely manner as required

• Manage compliance with safety and health requirements and ensure issues are being addressed prior to commencement of work (such as permits completed, isolations checked, and tagging completed)

• Manage compliance with federal and state environmental regulations to ensure a field presence on a routine basis

• Verify that personnel hold the appropriate qualifications and licenses

• Monitor the safe use and control of all tools and equipment

• Promote and assist in the implementation of site safety initiatives and safety-monitoring tools

• Attend and monitor pre-start and toolbox meetings, ensuring they are conducted, and minutes are prepared, issued, and action items developed as appropriate

• Assist in preparing and contributing to monthly safety, health, and environmental reporting

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Leadership Competencies

• Employee focus—manage difficult employee situations, respond promptly to employee needs, and keep commitments

• Problem solving—identify and resolve problems in a timely manner as well gather and analyze information skillfully

• Interpersonal skills—maintain confidentiality, remain open to others’ ideas, and exhibit willingness to try new things

• Communication—speak clearly and persuasively in a positive manner, edit work for spelling and grammar, present numerical data effectively, and read and interpret written information

• Planning/organizing—prioritize and plan work activities, use time efficiently, and develop realistic action plans

• Quality control—demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness and monitor own work to ensure quality

• Adaptability—adapt to a complex and dynamic work environment, including delays and unexpected events, creating ongoing need to reassess and manage changing priorities that may conflict at times

• Dependability—consistently follow instructions, respond to management direction, and solicit feedback to improve performance

• Self-awareness—recognize and understand moods, emotions, and drives of self, as well as their effect on others

• Self-regulation—control or redirect disruptive impulses and moods and the propensity to suspend judgment

• Motivation—bring a passion to work for reasons which go beyond money or status and have a propensity to pursue goals with energy and persistence

• Empathy—understand the emotional makeup of people and have skill in treating people according to their emotional reactions

• Social skills—proficient in managing relationships and building networks while finding common ground and building rapport

Supervisor Responsibilities

• Supervise employees; perform evaluations in a timely manner; and coach, counsel, make recommendations, and initiate discipline as needed

• Control cost and production through efficient delegation and management of resources

• Take the lead in any emergency and understand company emergency response book

• Provide safety training, perform job observations as required, and review safe work practices with employees as needed

• Train and develop employees to improve their capabilities as well as prepare them for opportunities for promotions

• Complete daily paperwork and computer work that provide proper information transfer and production record keeping

• Ensure employees have the tools, equipment, supplies, guidance, and support to succeed

• Assist in creation, enforcement, and improvement of standard operating procedures (SOPs)

Departmental Responsibilities

• Oversee all metallurgical aspects of milling operations: Grinding, flotation, gravity, and de-watering

• Supervise, coordinate, and develop the metallurgical staff. All members of the Metallurgical staff will report directly to the Chief Metallurgist to ease the coordination of activities.

• Manage the activities of the Metallurgist staff. Provide guidance to the Metallurgists from an overview perspective, giving feedback to meet long term goals and operational targets.

• Develop and control the metallurgical budgets and provide input to the overall mill budget. Develop and take responsibility for the budgets of the metallurgical lab.

• Propose and justify capital expenditures using the AFE process.

• Provide metallurgical forecasts and projected mill performance estimates using the updated models, keeping all Metallurgical Models up to date.

• Maintain the on-line informational software and process modeling software.

• Monitor and sponsor development of operational, maintenance and metallurgical information systems.

• Perform or oversee any process engineering functions as it applies to the metallurgical performance or reporting in the mill by helping maintain the SQL server, information data bases, OSA models, SCADA programming and OCS configurations.

• Interact with the operations group to maximize throughput and recovery in the concentrator, on projects and in day-to-day operations, incorporating input from operations and maintenance whenever possible.

• Provide technical support and training assistance to Mill Operations with focus on grinding and flotation operators and provide support and guidance on improvement projects throughout the mill.

• Interact with the mine and geology staffs to maximize throughput and recovery and interact with the accounting/marketing group to enhance the customer base and maximize revenue from sales.

• Sponsor internal and external research and development of systems and processes to increase economic recovery from ore, to increase productivity and to decrease costs on a short term and long-term basis.

• Coordinate succession planning and professional development.

• Manage and host engineers, consultants, salesmen and visitors relating to metallurgical operations at the concentrator.

• Know, encourage, and endorse all Safety, Industrial Hygiene and Environmental standards.

• Coordinate all the Mill Department reporting functions.

• Use bench scale, pilot scale and plant scale testing or analysis of plant data to investigate, develop, refine, and improve the metallurgical and materials balance flow sheets.

The mill is highly instrumented, and the metallurgists also work with PLC based:

• Graphic operator interfaces

• Process data storage, retrieval, trending, and on-line mass balancing

• Expert; advisory and supervisory control systems.

• Modelling software

QUALIFICATIONS

Education and/or Experience

• B.S. or equivalent in Metallurgy, Mineral Processing, or related field.

• Prior experience of ten or more years successfully leading a team that includes supervisory responsibility.