Duties and Responsibilities:

• Under the direction of the Mill Manager, the Junior Metallurgist will have the following duties and responsibilities:
• Manage quality assurance/quality control for the assay lab and mill operations;
• Monitor the process in the mill to maintain or increase production;
• Identify and troubleshoot issues in the production process;
• Provide technical assistance to operators, millwrights, and lab technicians;
• Runs tests on new ore bodies and chemicals to get optimal recoveries;
• Maintain assay lab chemical inventory;
• Design and supervise plant sampling surveys, including proper sampling as required by the particular attributes of the unit operation being studied. Analyze the data extracted and make recommendations for change based on interpretation of the results using sound engineering principles;
• Compile daily metallurgical reports
• Maintain current knowledge of in...