Senior Metallurgist – Gold Processing

Location: Toronto(site-based, up to 50% travel to head office/site)

About the Company

Our client is a Canadian mining company engaged in the exploration, development, and production of gold, copper, and silver.

The company has a strong track record of hitting production and cost targets, growing reserves, and running safe, efficient operations. It continues to look at ways to diversify its asset base and add shareholder value, and is investing in attracting strong technical talent to support that growth.

About the Role

This role provides hands-on operational metallurgy and process engineering support, with an initial focus on the client's primary processing operation. You'll turn complex plant data into actionable insight, validate metallurgical performance, and drive practical improvements to recovery, efficiency, and cost. You'll work closely with Metallurgy, Plant Operations, Geology, Geometallurgy, and Technical Services to solve processing challenges that require real analytical depth and follow-through.

Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Chemical, Metallurgical, or Mineral Processing Engineering
- Skilled Engineer designation considered an asset

Experience & Skills

Required

- 10+ years of progressive technical, operational, engineering, and leadership experience, including at least 5 years in process operations
- Hands-on operational metallurgy experience in gold processing (lab-only experience will not be sufficient)
- Strong technical knowledge of flotation and leaching processes
- Experience in precious and base metals processing, including water systems and tailings management
- Robust analytical skills; comfortable working with large data sets, metallurgical balances, plant inventories, and performance trends
- Experience reconciling predicted metallurgical/geometallurgical performance against actual plant results and investigating variances
- Ability to review technical documentation, coordinate consultants,



and support small-scale process improvement initiatives across multiple teams
- Fluent in Spanish and English
- Able to present technical findings clearly and influence decisions without direct authority
- Willing and able to travel to site up to 50% of the time

Preferred

- Experience with complex or non-conventional processing flowsheets and challenging ore bodies
- Experience working across multicultural, multi-site, and corporate teams
- Experience coordinating RFQs, purchase orders, invoices, budgets, and related administrative work tied to technical initiatives

Key Accountabilities
- Analyze and validate daily metallurgical reports; flag trends and provide actionable insight for decision-making
- Support validation of month-end metallurgical balances and plant inventories (gold, silver, copper in circuit); report anomalies
- Gather and synthesize processing, metallurgy, and geometallurgy data to support operations, planning, budgeting, and continuous improvement
- Support metallurgical/geometallurgical test work and validate recovery models against actual plant performance
- Correlate mineralogical characteristics (tellurides, deleterious elements, abnormal sulphide content) with leaching kinetics and flotation performance to improve mine-to-mill strategy
- Reconcile predicted vs. actual metallurgical/geometallurgical performance, investigate variances, and help refine recovery models and life-of-mine assumptions
- Track plant consumables and reagent use against budget; identify cost and efficiency opportunities
- Lead initial analysis and coordinate execution of small-scale operational improvement initiatives
- Coordinate consultant work, review technical documentation, and advise leadership on deviations, risks, and corrective actions
- Coordinate logistics, RFQs, purchase orders, invoices, and budget follow-up for metallurgy and process initiatives

Compensation & Benefits
- Base salary: $130K–$175K
- Short- and long-term incentive plans
- Extended health and dental
- Health Care Spending Account ($1,000/year)
- Life, AD&D;, STD, and LTD insurance
- RRSP matching
- Four weeks' vacation
- Flexible work arrangements

📌 Senior Metallurgist (Toronto)
🏢 Robertson u0026 Company
📍 Toronto