Senior Plant Metallurgist
Our Opportunity
Location: Iron Bridge - Fortescue’s Iron Bridge project is located on the traditional lands of the Nyamal people.
Roster: 8D6R FIFO ex Perth
The role will be responsible for guiding the metallurgy team in providing technical guidance and process engineering solutions, evaluating process improvements, working closely with site operations teams, Process Control Engineers and Integrated Operations Centre teams based at the Iron Bridge Ore Processing Facility.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver solutions to existing operational challenges regarding safety, process, yield or upgrade
- Engaging all stakeholders to understand and identify business needs
- Develop standard reports for presenting process engineering outcomes
- Work closely with mine planning, Process Control & Hive operations to improve process plant control and provide oversight to implementation of PIDs
- Driving short term metallurgical accounting and production planning
- Generate and/or approve process related deliverables and documentation for process optimisation and delivery
- Ensure correct application of Health & Safety standards
- Oversee technical quality, integrity and adequacy of process changes, adherence for Management of Change
- Guiding a team of metallurgist and metallurgical technicians to achieve required outcomes
Qualifications and Experience
- Demonstrated commitment to safety
- Tertiary Qualifications in Metallurgy, Chemical Engineering or similar discipline
- 3 - 5 years in mineral processing industry with direct operational / technical development experience with producer
- Over 2 years process engineering experience on major mineral processing projects working on materials handling, crushing, screening and wet beneficiation process plant (especially physical separation unit processes)
- Demonstrated experience in most major components of process plant operation and optimisation
- Strong leadership, conceptual thinking and analytical focus with practical alignment to reality
- Excellent problem-solving skills and continual improvement focus
- Proven capability to effectively communicate, engage across all levels
About Us
Be part of something big. Fortescue is leading the world with our plan to decarbonise our iron ore operations, projects that harness renewable energy and the development of technology that will change our planet forever.
Our Commitment
Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
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