Principal Metallurgist in Toronto

15+ years of experience in the mining industry.

Post-secondary education with a degree in metallurgical, chemical, or mining engineering (mineral processing focus).

Based in Toronto or Denver with flexible working options available.

As our new Principal Metallurgist, you will play an important role with our current teams by leading or supporting technical services projects. You will make technical contributions to projects focusing on mineral processing, and bring strong data analysis and problem-solving skills, and critical and conceptual thinking abilities. Working closely with senior team members, you will bring excellent interpersonal and communication skills, the ability to build relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and manage multiple projects and priorities independently.

Specifically, your responsibilities will include:

• Maintain industry-leading standards for engineering work.
• Metallurgical test work program design (including selection of representative samples), test work supervision, and interpretation of results.
• Processing plant design and optimization (either by the candidate or by directing other engineers).
• Processing plant operating cost estimation.
• Assessment, due diligence, and technical auditing of mines and projects.
• Business development.
• Liaise with clients as required and be prepared to respond to clients in a timely manner in response to any questions or concerns that they may raise.
• Prepare or participate in the preparation of Preliminary Economic Assessments, scoping, prefeasibility, and feasibility studies.
• Report writing and client presentations.
• Prepare or participate in the preparation of NI 43-101 reports or international equivalents as may be required by the client.
• Project Management, including leadership of other engineers, geologists, and third-party consulting groups.
• Financial modeling and analysis.

Qualifications:

• Registered or qualified for registration as a Professional Engineer in Canada or the equivalent in the USA, UK, Australia, or South Africa.
• University degree in Extractive Metallurgy or Mineral Processing.
• Familiar with international and public disclosure and reporting codes, including NI43-101, JORC, SAMREC, Competent Persons Reports, and Mineral Expert Reports etc.
• Legally able to work and reside in the country specified.
• Strong and varied operations experience, preferably with multiple commodities, as well as significant exposure to consulting, with 15-20 years in the industry.
• The incumbent must be able to show success in meeting objectives and budgets.
• Must be dynamic, self-motivated, and demonstrate a determination to excel and commitment to action, and be able to transfer these attributes to client(s) and the consulting company’s management and mining engineering team.
• Strong analytical skills, communication skills, demonstrated ability to write reports and interact with clients.

SLR strives to build diverse teams that reflect the communities we work in, and encourages applications from traditionally underrepresented groups including women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as 2SLGBTQI+, veterans, and people with disabilities.