Mill Projects Engineer

Artemis Gold - Blackwater Project•Vanderhoof, BC

10d•CA$104,545 - CA$130,681•Onsite

About The Position

The Mill Projects Engineer is responsible for developing and delivering mill improvement and sustaining capital projects from initial concept through engineering, construction, commissioning, and operational handover. The role will manage assigned small- and medium-sized projects and act as the mill’s technical liaison for larger capital and expansion projects. The position will work closely with Mill Operations, Metallurgy, Maintenance, Reliability, E&I, Supply Chain, Major Projects, and external engineering and construction groups. The primary objective is to ensure projects are safe, technically sound, maintainable, and properly integrated into the operating plant. Projects must deliver the intended improvement in safety, throughput, recovery, reliability, operating cost, or environmental performance without creating unacceptable risk to production.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, process, chemical, metallurgical, electrical, civil, or another relevant engineering discipline.
Minimum five years of relevant experience in mining, mineral processing, heavy industry, industrial construction, or project delivery.
Practical experience with operating mineral-processing plants is strongly preferred, particularly in crushing, grinding, leaching, CIL, elution, tailings, water, reagents, or plant services.
Demonstrated experience delivering brownfield plant modifications from concept through construction, commissioning, and handover.
Experience coordinating contractors, consultants, vendors, construction trades, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
Working knowledge of project controls, including estimating, budgeting, scheduling, forecasting, risk management, procurement, and change control.
Experience planning project tie-ins and construction work around operating constraints and scheduled plant shutdowns.
Understanding of commissioning, operational readiness, equipment handover, and performance testing.
Ability to assess technical options and make practical recommendations based on safety, operating risk, production impact, lifecycle cost, and expected benefits.
Ability to read, interpret, and review PFDs, P&IDs, general arrangements, equipment drawings, fabrication drawings, electrical drawings, control documentation, specifications, and vendor manuals.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present technical and commercial information clearly to operations teams, contractors, engineers, and management.
Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office. Experience with scheduling, cost-control, document-control, and project-management software is required.
Valid driver’s licence.

Nice To Haves

Registration, or eligibility for registration, as a Professional Engineer in British Columbia is preferred.
Experience with AutoCAD, Navisworks, SolidWorks, or similar design and model-review software is an asset.
PMP certification or formal project-management training is an asset.
Strong commitment to safe work and environmental protection.
Practical understanding of how engineering and construction decisions affect plant operation, maintenance, reliability, and production.
Able to manage several priorities while maintaining control of scope, cost, schedule, quality, and risk.
Comfortable working in the field and following work through engineering, construction, commissioning, and final handover.
Able to challenge incomplete designs, weak assumptions, and uncontrolled scope changes constructively.
Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
Able to work independently while keeping affected stakeholders informed.
Accountable for commitments and able to follow issues through to closure.

Responsibilities

Maintain a strong field presence and ensure all assigned work complies with company requirements and applicable health, safety, environmental, and regulatory standards.
Develop project concepts and evaluate technical options, constructability, maintainability, operating risk, cost, schedule, and expected benefits.
Prepare business cases, capital requests, cost estimates, execution plans, and supporting technical documentation for proposed projects.
Develop clear scopes of work, design criteria, equipment specifications, work breakdown structures, schedules, budgets, and tender packages.
Coordinate process, mechanical, piping, civil, structural, electrical, instrumentation, and control-system requirements across project disciplines.
Serve as the mill representative for major capital and expansion projects, ensuring operating, maintenance, metallurgical, commissioning, and tie-in requirements are identified early and incorporated into the design.
Review engineering deliverables, including process flow diagrams, P&IDs, layouts, equipment specifications, control narratives, cause-and-effect matrices, design calculations, vendor drawings, and construction packages.
Participate in design reviews, constructability reviews, risk assessments, HAZOPs, operability and maintainability reviews, and commissioning readiness assessments.
Manage the Management of Change process for modifications to plant equipment, process conditions, control systems, operating procedures, or original plant design.
Identify project interfaces and brownfield risks, including shutdown requirements, tie-ins, access limitations, isolation requirements, lifting plans, temporary services, and potential impacts on plant production.
Coordinate project activities with the mill operating plan, planned shutdowns, maintenance schedules, and production priorities.
Facilitate site visits, bid walks, technical clarifications, and tender evaluations. Work with Supply Chain to select suitable contractors, consultants, and equipment suppliers.
Manage consultants, contractors, and vendors to ensure work is completed safely and in accordance with the approved scope, design, quality requirements, budget, and schedule.
Maintain project risk registers and actively manage technical, safety, environmental, commercial, schedule, commissioning, and production risks throughout the project lifecycle.
Monitor project commitments, forecasts, actual costs, progress, change orders, and schedule performance. Identify emerging variances early and develop practical recovery plans.
Provide regular project reporting covering safety, scope, cost, schedule, risks, decisions required, and forecast completion.
Coordinate quality assurance and quality control activities, including inspections, testing, deficiency management, and verification that equipment and construction meet design requirements.
Develop commissioning and operational readiness plans with Operations, Metallurgy, Maintenance, Reliability, and E&I.
Coordinate pre-commissioning, commissioning, performance testing, and ramp-up activities. Confirm that project performance is measured against approved design and business-case objectives.
Ensure operating procedures, maintenance strategies, critical spares, bills of materials, training, drawings, equipment records, and vendor documentation are complete before final handover.
Confirm all project changes are captured in as-built drawings, P&IDs, equipment registers, maintenance systems, control documentation, and other plant records.
Complete project closeout, including financial reconciliation, outstanding deficiencies, lessons learned, and post-implementation review of the expected operational benefits.
Support development, prioritization, and management of the mill sustaining capital and improvement project portfolio.
Provide technical support for plant troubleshooting and improvement initiatives where project engineering or cross-discipline coordination is required.
May be required to maintain a clean-shaven appearance (i.e. no facial hair) to ensure the safe and effective use of required personal protective equipment (PPE) associated with assigned duties.
Perform other related duties as assigned by the Senior Mill Projects Engineer