Copper Mining Senior Advisor - Technical Modeling

This role required candidate to permanently relocate at Salt Lake City, UT.

About the Company

This Company engages in the exploration, mining, and processing of mineral resources. It operates through the following business segments: Iron Ore, Aluminium, Copper and Diamonds, Energy and Minerals, and Other Operations. The Iron Ore segment supplies global seaborne iron ore trade. The Aluminium segment produces bauxite, alumina and primary aluminum. The Copper and Diamonds segment offers gold, silver, molybdenum and other by-products. The Energy and Minerals includes businesses with products such as uranium, borates, salt and titanium dioxide feedstock together with coal operations. The Other Operations segment covers the the curtailed Gove alumina refinery and This Company Marine operations. This Company was founded in 1873 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Job Summary

This role will lead an innovative new venture that aims to help grow This Company's copper business. This would be a portfolio of proprietary copper leach related technologies and capability a product of almost 30 years of research and development. This project offers the potential to economically unlock known low-grade copper sulphide resources, copper bearing waste and tailings, and achieve higher copper recoveries on primary copper sulphide material, allowing for a significantly increased copper production outcome. One of the key differentiators is the potential to deliver leading environmental performance, including more efficient water usage, lower carbon emissions, and the ability to reclaim mine sites by reprocessing mine waste.

We are looking for a Technical Modeller to provide technical modeling support to the various studies (Viability and Deployment).

Responsibilities:

• Process and interpret heap leaching testwork data.
• Provide technical guidance for metallurgical testwork programs.
• Generate, analyze, and interpret metallurgical process model simulations.
• Use testwork data to validate model assumptions.
• Utilize process models to predict and scale-up the performance of sulphide heap leach operations.
• Produce process design criteria for engineering design purposes.
• Report on model simulation outputs to technical and non-technical audiences, for use in process engineering design, business case evaluations, and geometallurgical understanding.

Requirements:

• This role required candidate to permanently relocate at Salt Lake City, UT.
• Commitment to safety for yourself and your team.
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, with a focus on Chemical or Metallurgical Engineering.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in developing/programming and utilizing metallurgical process models and simulations.
• Advanced analytical and programming skills in Microsoft Excel.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as VBA, Perl, and Python for data conversion.
• Ability to read Fortran code.
• Strong knowledge of hydrometallurgical chemistry.
• Proficiency in interpreting and processing test data and findings, and generating simulation outputs suitable for audiences with varying levels of hydrometallurgical knowledge.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills for effective interaction with employees at all organizational levels, as well as external vendors and stakeholders.
• Experience in leaching processes, with a preference for expertise in copper heap leaching.
• Experience in computational fluid dynamics modeling is considered an additional advantage.

Benefits:

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority.
• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees.
• Career development and education assistance to further your ambitions.
• Access to top-tier family-friendly health and medical programs and a pension plan.
• Wellbeing benefits.
• Generous This Company employee share program.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters.
• Leave for all of life's reasons, including vacation/annual leave, paid parental leave, and sick leave.

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