Employer Name: McEwen Stock Mill
Company description: The Stock Mill facility plays a key role in processing ore from McEwen’s regional mining operations, ensuring efficient metal recovery and adherence to high environmental and safety standards. Our current exploration strategy focuses on expanding known deposits and testing high-potential new targets near our existing mines and mill – supporting our goal of near-term gold production growth. The Stock property is located 22 kilometers west of Matheson and 45 kilometers east of the city of Timmins and of the Lexam properties. A significant NE-SW trending fault intersects the Destor Porcupine Fault near the Stock Mine, making the area a prime structural setting for gold mineralization.
Location of Work: 5300 Highway 101 West, Matheson, Ontario, P0K 1N0
Title of Position: Chief Metallurgist (NOC 21322)
Language: English
Vacancies: 1
Type of Position: Permanent, full time
Job Duties:
Primary Responsibilities:
• Develop, drive and monitor daily, weekly and monthly section plans.
• Provide input into processing operations strategies and technology development.
• Develop and communicate monthly and annual metal forecast.
Process Operations:
• Actively supervise team activities; develop and relay daily and weekly plans and tasks.
• Provide specialist-level metallurgical support to Process Operations, reviewing procedures and technical reports, and making recommendations to improve current processes.
• Oversee the milling and processing of ore, including: coordinating ore types being delivered, monitoring haulage and milling tons on a daily basis, conducting month end process inventory surveys, and implementing a grade control program and completing a monthly reconciliation.
• Maintain metallurgical balance and production statistics through sampling and data collection; ensure data collection is accurate.
• Evaluate sodium cyanide consumption, cost and safety to determine processes for removal/treatment.
• Monitor and perform test work to optimize the effluent water treatment.
• Manage all metallurgical accounting and SOX compliance activities and issues.
• Coordinate and reconcile Dore settlements.
• Monitor and report back on metal forecasts – plan vs actual.
Refinery:
• Plan, communicate and monitor refinery schedules and checklists incl: weekly clean outs and pour schedule, monthly maintenance schedule, refinery maintenance.
Testing:
• Coordinate production testing and control of metal refining
• Develop Plant testing programs and operational parameters and ensuring that they are complete and up to date.
• Direct / perform diagnostic testing on various development ores to determine various process design criteria such as – projected/potential plant throughput, energy consumption, optimal metallurgical recovery, reagent requirements, and environmental impacts.
• Direct and provide oversight to off-site metallurgical testing regimes toward feasibility and mine development studies.
General:
• Review process route for development properties
• Manage and control section costs and expenditures within parameters, participate in section-related budget development and capex.
• Actively participate in monthly cost reviews, cost modelling, and forensics.
• Provide technical support in areas of mineral process related R&D.
• Drive and monitor adherence to policies, procedures and systems within the section.
• Maintain a clean work environment free of hazards, maintaining high standards, submitting work requests to maintenance as needed.
• Carry out routine reporting and administrative duties as required.
• Conduct and participate in daily and weekly meetings as required.
Skills Required:
• Solid knowledge / understanding of operating procedures and control strategies for ore milling and processing is required.
• Must be able to obtain a license (if required)
Experience Required:
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience with ore controls, preferably in a coarse gold mining environment is required.
Education Required:
• Bachelor of Engineering Degree in chemical engineering or related discipline (e.g., Metallurgy, Mineral Processing)
Wage & Hours: $72.12/h (150,000 annually)
• Number of hours per day: 10
• Number of days per week: 4
• Number of hours per week: 40
• Overtime starts after how many hours: 40
• Shift rotation (as applicable): 4/3 Monday to Tuesday
Benefits:
☒ Disability Insurance
☒ Dental Insurance
☒ Pension
☒ Extended medical insurance (e.g. prescription drugs, paramedical services, medical services and equipment)
☐ Other (if applicable): N/A
Type of Vacation:
☐ Days
☒ Amount: 4%
Anyone who is qualified and can legally work in Canada can apply for this job. If you are not currently authorized to work in Canada, the employer will not consider your application. Only qualified applicants will be contacted.
To apply: Email: Mcewen.jobs@iveygroup.ca