Manager, Metallurgy and Process Design

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $160k - $220k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👔 Manager

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Freeport-McMoRan

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1834

⚡ Energy

Mining • Energy • Sustainability

Freeport-McMoRan is a leading mining company that responsibly produces essential metals such as copper and molybdenum, contributing to a sustainable future. With a commitment to safety, ethics, and community involvement, the company employs over 25,000 team members across North America, South America, and Asia, who are dedicated to delivering high-quality products and maintaining a culture of sustainability and inclusiveness.

📋 Description

• Manage and oversee strategic metallurgical projects across growth projects, operational support functions, and corporate initiatives • Provide direct technical support, mentorship, and advisement on mineral processing topics • Promote industry best practices across operating companies • Potentially perform reserve reporting sign-off • Lead strategic project planning, including project identification and formulation, decision methodology, stakeholder evaluation, and resource definition • Interact with internal and external resources on growth projects • Execute technical development work and quantify cost impacts • Regularly communicate project status and outcomes to stakeholders • Perform metallurgical support activities for project sites, including reserve reporting functions as required • Prepare annual budgets and resourcing plans • Recruit personnel and manage small technical teams • Prepare and present updates to executive management and external business partners • Develop technical materials for patents and conferences • Maintain and expand an industry network in extractive metallurgy and mineral processing • Work virtually with occasional travel for meetings, training, team events, and mine sites up to 25% as business needs require

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering • Ten (10) years of experience in mineral processing and leaching processes • Five (5) years of experience in operations roles, preferably leading teams • Three (3) years of experience working on projects or other technical initiatives involving mining and engineering companies • Strong experience affecting change in operating processing plants • Strong working knowledge of geo-metallurgical testing, data interpretation, and modeling tools for forecasting • Strong working knowledge of processing techniques of large Porphyry copper deposits • Demonstrated history of interpreting geo-metallurgical results and performing regression analyses and/or simulations to develop grade and recovery models for ore types • Demonstrated data-centric capabilities using structured problem-solving approaches with statistics and regression tools • Specialized technical expertise in three disciplines and general knowledge in five disciplines, including crushing, grinding, flotation, copper smelting, precious metal refining, solvent extraction, electrowinning, liquid-solid separation, tailings, materials handling, process modeling and simulation, statistical analysis, process control, sampling and assaying, and metallurgical accounting • Broad experience in mineral processing plant technical support or operations management • MBA or related certification or experience in financial and economic evaluations • Experience managing small technical teams, including direct supervision • Experience managing large and complex multi-discipline projects • Excellent communication skills and strong execution capability • Excellent cross-discipline communication skills • Mandatory pre-employment drug testing as allowed by applicable laws • Ability to undertake required international and domestic travel

🏖️ Benefits

• Affordable medical, dental and vision benefits • Company-paid life and disability insurance • RRSP plan with employer contribution/match • Paid time off, paid sick time, holiday pay • Additional discretionary and incentive payment considerations based on company and individual performance