DescriptionAbout the Role
Reporting to the Principal Engineer, Metallurgy & Process, the Senior Metallurgist will provide hands-on operational metallurgy and process engineering support, with an initial focus on the Morelos Complex. You will turn complex plant data into meaningful insights, validate metallurgical performance, and support practical improvements that strengthen recovery, efficiency, and cost performance. Working closely with site Metallurgy, Plant Operations, Geology, Geometallurgy, and Technical Services teams, you will bring the detailed analysis and follow-through needed to solve complex processing challenges.
What We're Looking for:
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical, Metallurgical, or Mineral Processing Engineering.
- Professional Engineer designation is considered an asset.
Experience & Skills:
Required
- 10+ years of progressive technical, operational, engineering, and leadership experience, including at least 5 years in process operations.
- Hands-on operational metallurgy experience in gold processing. Experience developed primarily in a laboratory environment will not be sufficient for this role.
- Strong technical knowledge of flotation and leaching processes.
- Experience in precious and base metals processing, including water systems and tailings management.
- Strong analytical skills and experience working with large data sets, metallurgical balances, plant inventories, and performance trends.
- Experience reconciling predicted metallurgical or geometallurgical performance against actual plant results and investigating variances.
- Ability to review technical documentation, coordinate consultants, and support small-scale process improvement initiatives across multiple teams.
- Fluency in Spanish and English, with the ability to communicate effectively with site and corporate stakeholders.
- Ability to present technical findings clearly, collaborate with peers and site leaders, and influence decisions without direct authority.
- Ability and willingness to travel to site 50% of the time.
Preferred
- Experience with complex or non-conventional processing flowsheets and challenging ore bodies.
- Experience working in multicultural environments and across site and corporate teams.
- Experience coordinating RFQs, purchase orders, invoices, budgets, and other administrative requirements related to technical initiatives.
Key Accountabilities
- Analyze and validate daily metallurgical reports, identify positive and negative operating trends, and provide actionable insights to support decision-making.
- Support the detailed validation of month-end metallurgical balances and plant inventories, including the tracking of gold, silver, and copper in circuit, and report anomalies or deviations.
- Gather, analyze, and synthesize processing, metallurgy, and geometallurgy data to support operational performance, planning, budgeting, and continuous improvement.
- Support metallurgical and geometallurgical test work and validate recovery models against actual plant performance.
- Correlate mineralogical characteristics, including tellurides, deleterious elements, and abnormal sulphide content, with leaching kinetics and flotation performance to improve mine-to-mill strategies.
- Reconcile predicted metallurgical and geometallurgical performance against plant results, investigate variances, and help refine recovery models and life-of-mine metal assumptions.
- Track plant consumables and reagent use against budget and identify opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
- Lead the initial analysis and coordinate the execution of small-scale operational improvement initiatives, assessing impacts on flows, recovery, reagent consumption, and hydraulics.
- Coordinate work completed by consultants, review technical documentation, and advise the Team Leader of deviations, risks, and recommended corrective actions.
- Coordinate logistics, RFQs, purchase orders, invoices, budget follow-up, and related administrative activities for metallurgy and process initiatives.
Why Join Us?
- Impactful Work: Help optimize the Morelos Property's potential as we continue to diversify and create value for our shareholders.
- Hands-On Leadership: Be directly involved in driving key initiatives and processes that positively impact people's lives and the environment around us.
- Collaborative Environment: Work with a dedicated team of professionals committed to being an industry leader in responsible mining.
- Competitive Total Rewards
- Annual Base Salary: $135k- $175k
- Short-term incentive plan and long-term incentives
- Extended group health and dental plans
- Health Care Spending Account of $1,000 per year
- Insurance coverage (Life, AD&D, STD, and LTD)
- RRSP matching
- Wellness initiatives, ongoing development, and career growth opportunities
- Four weeks of vacation for everyone
- Flexible work arrangements
The posted salary range represents our target pay for this role. Final compensation will be determined based on the comprehensive review of the candidate's qualifications, skills, and experience, as well as internal equity and external benchmark data for comparable roles.
This posting is for an existing vacancy that the Company is actively recruiting to fill, and while we use technology to help us with our recruitment campaigns, we do not use Artificial Intelligence in the screening of applicants.
Join us in shaping the future of Torex Gold!
Please note that Torex Gold does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies without a written agreement in place for permanent/contract placements.
