Senior Mineral Process Engineer

Hatch•Tucson, AZ

16d

About The Position

The Senior Process Engineer will be part of an engineering team providing engineering services and/or field support. The role includes client liaison and maintaining focus on achieving sustained business results for clients. The engineer is expected to understand the project’s environmental, community, business, and financial aspects and use that understanding to guide client and Project Manager decisions related to the project’s process objectives. The engineer will oversee, guide, and develop solutions across process plant systems, unit operations, and equipment. Work may include developing process engineering deliverables, solving field problems, and executing and commissioning solutions. On specific assignments, the Senior Process Engineer may act as Lead Process Engineer, coordinating the process engineering team and ensuring deliverables meet project scope, schedule, budget, and Hatch quality standards. Concentrator design experience across commodities such as gold, lithium, nickel, copper, PGM, lead, zinc, and mineral sands is preferable.

Requirements

Degree in Chemical Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, or Mineral Processing.
At least 8 years of experience.
Extensive design, commissioning, and/or operational experience with minerals processing equipment, including comminution, flotation, DMS, gravity separation, screening, thickening, and filtration.
Experience scoping and managing metallurgical test work programs at bench scale, pilot scale, and/or on-site.
Experience modelling minerals processing equipment and systems.
Strong client focus.
Ability to lead engineering tasks within allocated project budgets and schedules, mentor and guide junior colleagues, and interact professionally with other project disciplines.
Ability to manage individuals to achieve quality, cost, and schedule objectives.

Nice To Haves

Concentrator design experience for commodities such as gold, lithium, nickel, copper, PGM, lead, zinc, and mineral sands.

Responsibilities

Perform process engineering tasks on minerals processing projects across a variety of commodities.
Act as Lead Process Engineer on projects or studies when requested.
Execute design calculations and establish design criteria; compile equipment lists and calculations independently.
Develop new criteria and calculations where required, maintaining accuracy, and provide training, guidance, and supervision to junior colleagues.
Engage with clients to understand project requirements.
Define process scope and select technology.
Define process design criteria, process block flow diagrams, and unit operations.
Compile Process Flow Diagrams and associated mass and energy balance calculations.
Undertake trade-off studies to resolve options.
Identify, scope, and manage process test work, either on site or in a laboratory.
Conduct capacity analysis for existing plants.
Select project equipment and carry out engineering design and equipment-sizing calculations.
Prepare process equipment specifications and datasheets, or provide process inputs to general datasheets.
Compile Process Descriptions.
Design process control logic in accordance with applicable safety standards and document it in Functional Descriptions.
Compile P&IDs and control philosophies independently.
Ensure process specifications communicate appropriate information and design intent, and review equipment bids.
Liaise with engineers from other disciplines to ensure designs conform to process requirements.
Contribute to hazard studies.
Compile operating cost estimates, including consumables, labor, maintenance materials, and power.
Provide input to capital cost estimates.
Prepare project reports.
Lead site commissioning of new equipment and process systems.
Participate in proposal preparation and other business development initiatives.
Coordinate process engineering teams when serving as Lead Process Engineer, ensuring deliverables meet project scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards.
Guide client and Project Manager decisions in support of project process objectives.