We are currently have an opening for a Production Metallurgist to join the Processing team at Tropicana.
Role Purpose:
The Production Metallurgist reports to the Superintendent Production and will be responsible for the provision of technical support to optimise economic gold production and metallurgical efficiency; via the implementation of corrective actions and such process improvements that gold production and cost targets are achieved and sustained in a safe and efficient manner.
Accountabilities:
- Exhibit a high degree of safety and environmental awareness and promote protected systems of work and environmentally responsible work practices.
- Provision of technical support to operations to ensure the required production and metallurgical efficiency.
- Liaise closely with internal peers including mining and geology departments.
- Awareness of Work Health and Safety (Mines) Regulations 2022 and Work Health and Safety Act 2020)
- Manage internal and external laboratory test work associated with daily plant monitoring, projects and improvement activities.
- Daily, weekly and monthly metallurgical accounting.
- Producing accurate, timely reports and forecasts on metallurgical performance vs budget.
- Daily monitoring and management of plant performance, recoveries and efficiencies.
- Coordinate and gather data and information for metallurgical performance reports.
- Oversee bullion shipments in conjunction with the Gold Room team
- Gather and prepare data and information for budget processes including production, costs and projects
- Development and review of procedures and work instructions associated with laboratory, gold room and metallurgical tasks in the processing plant.
- Contribute to maintenance of the process plant.
About You
People are at the heart of everything we do. We want you to collaborate with us, share your ideas and feel confident to challenge the status quo. To be considered, we would like to see you have:
- Experience with respect to tertiary crushing, ball milling, CIL/CIP, elution, electrowinning, smelting, gold and sulphide flotation, ultra-fine grinding, high-rate thickening, and tailings disposal.
- Previous exposure in site-based laboratory work.
- Tertiary qualifications in Metallurgy, Extractive Metallurgy, Minerals / Chemical Engineering, or Mineral Processing.
- Previous experience within the mining industry and gold processing plants.
- A team player and collaborative mind-set
- Current WA Manual Drivers Licence.
- Existing and ongoing Permanent Australian Working rights (Mandatory).
📌 Specialist Production Metallurgy Full Time (City of Gold Coast)
🏢 AngloGold Ashanti
📍 City of Gold Coast
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