Advanced Process Support Engineer, Pumps/Cyclones/Valves

FLS Global • Tucson, AZ

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About The Position

As an Advanced Process Support (APS) Engineer, you will provide process-focused technical support for FLSmidth's Pumps, Cyclones & Valves (PCV) business, helping customers improve mineral processing performance. You will work closely with our Sales and Site Support teams at customer mine sites, bringing deeper process expertise to grinding, classification, gravity concentration, and slurry transport circuits. While Field Service teams focus primarily on mechanical installation and maintenance, you will focus on how our equipment performs within the overall process. This is a highly customer-facing, field-based role with approximately 50% to 75% travel across the assigned region/territories.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mineral Processing, Metallurgical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a closely related field.
• Minimum 3 to 5 years of experience in mineral processing.
• Solid working knowledge of comminution circuits, slurry transport, and plant performance metrics.
• Hands-on experience planning and conducting plant surveys, sampling campaigns, and mass balances.
• Strong data analysis skills, including Excel.
• Comfortable working with process data, instrumentation, and digital monitoring platforms.
• Working knowledge of slurry pumps, hydrocyclones, valves, and gravity concentrators from an operational perspective.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work independently with plant metallurgists, operators, site leadership, and sales teams.
• Willingness and ability to travel approximately 50% to 75% across the assigned region.

Nice To Haves

• Experience as a plant metallurgist or in a similar operations-facing process role.
• Experience with gravity concentration circuits, ideally Knelson concentrators.
• Experience with process modeling software such as JKSimMet or similar tools.
• Experience with online analytics or process control systems.
• Fluency in English.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical process resource for Sales and Site Support on grinding, classification, gravity concentration, and slurry transport circuits.
• Diagnose performance issues and recommend operating or equipment changes that improve throughput, recovery, and wear life.
• Plan and execute plant surveys and sampling campaigns, including particle size analysis, density and flow measurement, and mass balancing.
• Establish baseline performance and quantify the impact of improvements.
• Use FLSmidth proprietary software to perform cyclone simulations, pump sizing, and circuit modeling for proposals, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
• Validate results against field data and share learnings with Product Line and Applications Engineering teams.
• Support commissioning of new PCV and Knelson installations from a process perspective.
• Troubleshoot issues such as cyclone roping, bypass, poor separation, and pump-cyclone mismatch in collaboration with Field Service Engineers.
• Support the deployment, configuration, and customer adoption of Krebs OSA and other PCV digital and monitoring products.
• Interpret process data and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Support Knelson gravity concentrator applications, including gravity recoverable gold (GRG) assessment, circuit design reviews, performance audits, and optimization of existing installations.
• Partner with Sales to identify upgrade and competitor-displacement opportunities.
• Develop technical value cases supported by survey and simulation data and contribute to customer proposals and presentations.
• Deliver process-focused training to plant metallurgists and operators covering the performance, operation, and optimization of PCV products and digital solutions.
• Prepare clear, professional survey, commissioning, and site reports documenting findings and recommendations.
• Share field learnings across Site Support, Applications Engineering, and Product Line teams.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with performance-based incentives.
• Health and dental benefits.
• Generous time off.
• Long-term career opportunities.
• Opportunities for technical training, professional development, and career growth.
• Access to a global employee recognition platform.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level