About The RoleSchedule: Shift 14/14 - 12 hour days
Position Reports To: Senior Metallurgist
Position ObjectivesThe key objective of this position is to provide leadership for the refiners and metallurgy technician, coach and provide technical support to the mill operations team and to improve the operational performance of the process plant.
Key Responsibilities Health, Safety and Environment:
- Ensure all Health, Safety and Environment Policies & Procedures are adhered to by all direct reports
- Conduct Pre-Shift Toolbox Meetings and Monthly Safety Meetings
- Ensure housekeeping standards are maintained.
- Perform rotational Job Observations, Workplace Inspections and PPE Audits
- Investigate all Health, Safety and Environment near misses or incidents and develop action plans to prevent re-occurrence
- Identify opportunities for Continuous Improvement in developing best practices and SOP's to minimize risks
Business KPI's:
- Manage supply inventories in the metallurgical laboratory and refineries. This includes ensuring that MSDS are up to date for the metallurgical lab
- Train operators on various SOPs related to sample preparation and circuit analysis and circuit sampling.
- Support operations in the maintenance and record keeping for the SAG and Ball Mill liners, Knelson concentrators and cyclone components
- Operate the Acacia (intensive cyanidation unit) and train mill operations how to operate the unit
- Create, update and manage laboratory standard operating procedures.
- Data entry and analysis for metallurgical accounting
- Daily metallurgical report
- Month end metallurgical report
- Weekly reagent count summary with the warehouse department
- Oversee Sample collection, surveys including:
- Perform daily assessment on the CND performance
- Perform daily check on reagent inventory
- Perform daily check on CIP carbon inventory
- Perform weekly survey of leach, CIP and carbon handling gold and silver inventory
- Perform weekly test of carbon activity
- Perform bottle roll leach tests on exploration samples and plant samples as required
- Lead grinding circuit sampling campaigns
- Conduct leaching tests in the metallurgical lab and CND test work.
- Maintain good knowledge of Microsoft Office systems - particularly Excel.
- Executing on laboratory methods and techniques for mineral processing test work.
- Designing experiments and plant trials.
- Analyze mill performance KPIs and trends using DataParc
- Any additional tasks as requested by your Supervisor
Competency, Knowledge and Skills - 3-5 years of gold milling experience
- Professional Engineering Designation considered an asset
- Accredited University degree in Chemical or Metallurgical Engineering
- Skilled in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook Visio, MS Project, quantitative risk analysis would be beneficial.
- Proven communication skills both verbal and written.
CompensationThe anticipated salary range for this position will be between $99,000 to $120,000.
*Note: this employment opportunity is based on an actual current vacancy, not just for future consideration
Why Coeur?- Highly competitive base salary, and a quarterly incentive program
- Extended Health & Dental Benefit
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance benefit
- Defined match contribution to group registered retirement savings account
- Camp & Travel allowance provided
