Senior Metallurgical Technician

About Us

Focus Minerals (FML) is a leading Australian gold explorer with tenure in Coolgardie and Laverton, two exciting gold regions in WA, and is the largest landholder in the Coolgardie goldfields with over 450sq km of tenements near its 1.2 Mtpa Three Mile Hill processing plant. With an extensive pipeline of projects for development and significant regional exploration potential, Focus is well positioned to become one of Australia’s newest sustainable gold producers. Resumption of operations has recently commenced, and you have an opportunity to be part of the processing team.

The Role

The Senior Metallurgical Technician to provide technical support to activities relating to the Coolgardie Gold Operations (CGO) gold processing plant, by safely and effectively completing projects and metallurgical monitoring activities that will optimise and improve production outcomes.

Duties include:

• Organise and maintain the laboratory area in a safe and effect manor and work efficiently with any other co-occupants of the facility.
• Run metallurgical monitoring activities, including but not limited to bottle rolls, size analysis and spot assays checks as required.
• Participated in process improvement and cost reduction projects.
• Liaise with Mining and Geology departments as required to ensure ore haulage and grade delivered to ROM pad aligns with processing schedule.
• Contribute to continuous improvement process by looking for opportunities to improve plant efficiency through design, operating philosophy, learning from past performance, and implementing corrective actions.
• Attending operations prestart meetings.
• Complete Met Accounting activities as required.
• Provide written reports on test work results to Metallurgical team and wider site personnel as required.
• Provide input when required on reviews of plant performance against plan and investigate and report on variation to production targets.
• Provide Operational support to Gold room Operator as required.
• Other tasks as required from time to time.

About You

To be successful in this role you will have the following:

• Previous experience within a Metallurgical Technician position
• Extensive experience working with the gold
• Exposure to Citect software, Microsoft Office products and Pronto
• Knowledge of statutory safety relevant to a fixed plant
• Ability to lead a collaborative team environment
• Valid WA driver's licence

Why join us?

Focus Minerals is an ASX listed company in an exciting period of expansion and production. In addition to long term job security, we offer:

• Competitive base salary
• Salary packaging including novated car leasing 
• Complimentary life insurance and income protection
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• New accommodation camp and facilities
• Virgin Frequent Flyer 
• Cohesive and supportive culture

This is an outstanding opportunity to contribute to a fast-growing gold producing company whilst working within a focused and committed team. To take this opportunity, submit your resume and cover letter, demonstrating your experience and its relation to the above criteria.

Focus Minerals Ltd is an equal opportunity employer that is dedicated to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce.

To be eligible for consideration all applicants must be an Australian Citizen/Australian Permanent Resident/New Zealand Citizen or hold appropriate work rights to work in Australia and be willing to undertake the necessary pre-employment checks which will include a Medical and a National Police Check.

We respectfully request that there are no approaches from recruitment agencies in relation to this role. We will be accepting applications and enquiries from direct applicants only.