Senior Metallurgist

The Company

Nyrstar is an international non-ferrous metals producer with a strong production profile and a disciplined focus on continuous improvement. Nyrstar operates a number of complex multi circuit plants in Australia and Europe. As a producer of critical multi-metals Nyrstar occupies an established and significant position in this field.

The Opportunity
Reporting directly to the Technology/Metallurgy Manager this role is focused on the upgrading of our multi-metals demonstration plant and achieving stable process control and operation. You will provide technical guidance and leadership to the Plant Metallurgists and operational leaders by monitoring plant performance, driving initiatives to improve recovery, throughput, and cost efficiency. The role needs a leader and team player who will work closely with operations and maintenance teams to ensure processing performance aligns with production targets and business objectives
  
This role suits someone who can step beyond monitoring performance and instead identify opportunities, implement solutions and drive measurable improvements across the plant.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead metallurgical performance monitoring and optimisation of the processing plant.
• Provide guidance and expertise to the development of processing strategies to deal with waste product streams.

• Analyse plant data to identify opportunities to improve recovery, throughput, and efficiency
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to plant metallurgists and processing teams
• Develop and implement metallurgical improvement initiatives
• Oversee plant surveys, sampling programs, and metallurgical test work
• Ensure troubleshooting of plant performance issues and implement corrective actions
• Work closely with operations to optimise plant control and process stability
• Ensure metallurgical accounting and reconciliation processes are timely, accurate and reliable
• Contribute to production planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes
• Prepare and review metallurgical reports and performance summaries that are timely and accurate

About You

• Tertiary qualification in Metallurgy or Chemical Engineering.
• Extensive experience in hydro and pyro metallurgy.
• Specific experience in the hydrometallurgy of multi-metals.
• Specific experience in the hydrometallurgy of arsenic.
• Demonstrated experience in plant optimisation and metallurgical performance improvement
• Experience leading metallurgical teams or providing technical leadership
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills
• Experience with metallurgical accounting and reporting systems
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting capability

What’s On Offer

• 5 day  work residential in Port Pirie

• Real opportunity to make a difference
• Strong technical team and leadership support
• Opportunity to drive real plant improvement outcomes