Plant Metallurgist Full Time

Pilbara Minerals are looking for Great People to join its team in powering a sustainable future. Located 120km south of Port Hedland in the Pilbara region, the Pilgangoora Lithium-Tantalum Project is one of the most exciting new projects in Western Australia. Its rapid development has seen it go from exploration to production in under four years.

THE OPPORTUNITY:
Reporting to the Senior Metallurgist, the Plant Metallurgist is responsible for ensuring concentrate production and associated processing unit operations are controlled in a cost effective and efficient manner as well as ensuring metallurgical performance and improvement initiatives including;

• Demonstrate stewardship in health, safety and environmental policies to ensure that site, corporate, and legislative requirements for the operation are met
• Generate and maintain daily and weekly metallurgical production reports to ensure that targets are met and to identify improvements opportunities
• Provide technical knowledge, training, and mentoring for graduate metallurgists, process technicians, metallurgical technicians and other members of the team
• Review and analyse past production performance, compare to budgeted and forecasted specifications and provide suggested improvement options
• Take the necessary actions to ensure that concentrate quality meets contract and target specifications
• Maintain, monitor and identify improvement opportunities of process control systems such as Citect, PowerBI, etc
• Carry out plant surveys and mass balances to maintain and improve plant performance
• Conduct laboratory trials and generate associated testwork reports to evaluate production improvement opportunities.

This permanent full-time position is based at our Pilgan Processing Plant, on a FIFO 8:6 roster from Perth, or DIDO 8:6 from Port Hedland.

ABOUT YOU:

• Degree qualified in Metallurgy or chemical engineering with exposure to similar role
• Prior knowledge and experience in heavy media separation and flotation desirable
• Experience in management & implementation of continuous improvement projects
• Experience and qualification as radiation safety officer desirable
• Proactive in identifying and implementing improvement opportunities
• Desire to take on various responsibilities and work in small teams

WHAT WE OFFER

• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Community Leave
• Competitive Remuneration
• Career opportunity
• Great onsite recreational facilities

WHAT WE STAND FOR

• Great people
• Think, do, achieve
• Safety matters
• Quality products
• Valuing our partners
• Making a difference in the world

PROMOTING DIVERSITY
Pilbara Minerals recognises that talented people come from diverse backgrounds, who can contribute to our successes in different ways.  We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly recommend women and Australian indigenous people to apply.

Short listing for this role will commence immediately.
We respectfully request agencies not to forward unsolicited resumes unless requested.

Interested to learn more about Pilbara Minerals or registering for future opportunities visit our website  www.pilbaraminerals.com.au