AddressPlant Metallurgist
Glencore's McArthur River Mine (MRM) is a world-class zinc-lead mine with a long future. You'll find our mine in the Gulf of Carpentaria 900 km southeast of Darwin and 64 km from Borroloola. We produce and process zinc, lead and silver from our open cut mine. It is then stored and transported to our Bing Bong loading facility and shipped to our customers worldwide. Our customers use our essential commodities in everyday products for mobility, infrastructure and communications.
Benefits:
- 13% Super
- 15 days on, 13 days off roster.
- Excellent career development opportunities.
- salary sacrificing vehicles.
- Benefits program including discounts with Health Insurance providers, online and in-store discounts through Glencore Rewards.
About the role:
Excellent opportunity for an energetic Plant Metallurgist to be involved in all aspects of operating a mineral processing plant. From planning production rates, setting operational parameters, solving technical related metallurgical problems, identifying cost saving initiatives to improving equipment reliability.
Accountabilities
- Provide operational parameters and targets to achieve production budget.
- Provide operational assistants to ensure production targets are achieved.
- Provide detailed documentation on both the daily metallurgical performance and test work.
- Provide daily, weekly and monthly metal balance data, and to maintain the metallurgical accounting systems.
- Maintain key metallurgical tools, i.e. OSA PI system, Expert System
- Assist in the technical training of operators.
- Conduct test work and trials to improve metallurgical performance and operating costs.
Successful applicant will have:
- Degree or Diploma qualification in the fields of Metallurgy / Minerals processing or chemical engineering
- 2 years of operational experience within a mineral processing plant is desired
- Knowledge of Crushing , HMP, milling, flotation, dewatering and leach circuits would be an advantage
- Ability to work unsupervised and motivated to explore opportunities to improve metallurgical performance
At MRM, we support the Northern Territory first, and Territorian applicants or those prepared to relocate.
Glencore employees applying for this role may be asked to discuss this with their Supervisor or Manager prior to an interview taking place.
For further information, please contact: mrmjobs@glencore.com.au
