Manager, Process & Metallurgy (Studies)
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Job Purpose: The Processing Manager (Studies) is responsible for leading all metallurgical and process engineering activities during project development, ensuring that flowsheets, recovery assumptions, and cost models are robust, optimized, and investment ready.
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Job Purpose
The Processing Manager (Studies) is responsible for leading all metallurgical and process
engineering activities during project development, ensuring that flowsheets, recovery assumptions,
and cost models are robust, optimized, and investment ready.
The role ensures that processing inputs meet stage-gate requirements from concept through
feasibility and execution readiness.
Key Accountabilities
- Define processing routes, high-level flowsheets, initial recovery assumptions, and process
- options with associated trade-offs during strategic, business case, and scoping stages
- Develop preliminary process design criteria, mass and water balances, and metallurgical
- risk registers during PFS, while validating recovery models and ore variability
- understanding
- Drive trade-off studies (e.g., HPGR vs SAG, heap leach vs CIL) to support process
- optimization and decision-making
- Approve final flowsheets and detailed process design (PFDs, P&IDs), equipment
- selection, sizing, specifications, and process design criteria during FS/BFS
- Ensure metallurgical risk registers are finalized and comprehensive, including risks such
- as refractory ore, variability, and scale-up
- Ensure accuracy of CAPEX/OPEX inputs, delivery of bankable and investment-grade
- outputs, and provision of design basis for EPCM execution
- Ensure process design reflects ore variability and test work outcomes
- Lead investigations and implement improvement opportunities to enhance competitive
- advantage and align with organizational strategy
- Coach and mentor business development personnel and support capability development
- Ensure compliance with company and site-specific policies, standards, and procedures,
- recommending improvements where necessary
- Provide technical expertise in metallurgy and processing engineering across affiliates to
- support effective implementation of Maaden standards
- Contribute to development, improvement, and effectiveness measurement of company
- policies and standards, and support their interpretation and implementation across
- affiliates
- Support corporate SME teams and contribute to technical communications (incident
- briefings, programs, initiatives, periodic updates) aligned with corporate policies across
- multiple channels
- Perform additional duties as assigned by management.
Minimum Qualifications, Experience And Competencies
- Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in metallurgical, Minerals/Chemical Engineering.
- Minimum Experience: Project management experience.
- Minimum 20 years of experience in metallurgical operations, engineering, and laboratory environment related to gold and base metal extraction processes.
Generic Maaden Behavioral Competencies Required
- Leadership
- Achievement Drive
- Communication
- Teamwork & collaboration
- Analytical thinking
- Skills:
- As technical services functional leader, Processing Manager for Study position shall bethe champion of change for improvement in all aspects of metal processing but not limited to existing operation and growth study.
- This position is responsible to deliver in quality and timely manner resources model with consultation with other functional within technical services, Operational leadership and Corporate.
- Knowledge of life-of-mine planning including budgeting and metal planning. Knowledge of Metallurgical Accounting Standard.
- Experience with plant control systems and use of data historian trends for operating and reporting.
- Ability to present to and collaborate with corporate executives and the site Senior Leadership Team required Strong computer skills and proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Access) required
- Knowledge in Safety requirements.
- Processing Manager for Study role needs to communicate frequently within all internal and external stakeholders for all matters related to Metallurgy and Process Engineering.
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