Chief Process Engineer
Vacancy Number: PR-256900
Canada, Kamloops
Fulltime: 40 hrs a week
Experience: 4-6 Years
Education Level: Academic Bachelor
Mining
Closing: July 16, 2025
Introduction
Reporting to the Mill Processing Superintendent, the Chief Engineer, Process Control Systems will be assisting Mill Processing and Maintenance to safely and cost-effectively meet key production and efficiency targets. Key targets include concentrate grade, recovery, throughput targets for copper and moly in the concentrate. This is accomplished through a sustainable culture of Process Control throughout the operation.
What are you going to do
- Be a Courageous Safety Leader by adhering to safety and environmental rules and procedures, leading Safety Investigations, participating in Visible Felt Leadership and Safety Tours.
- Collaborate with Mill Operations, Maintenance, and support groups to design and implement process control strategies and real-time optimization for selected circuits.
- Manage a process control team of engineers, supervisors, and technicians.
- Ensure daily variance reviews and recommendations for Crushing, Grinding, Throughput, and Cu/Mo Recovery circuits.
- Support department meetings and provide input on forecasts, reviews, and planning sessions.
- Contribute to projects that maximize production, reduce costs, and resolve operational risks.
- Maintain monitoring programs to track performance, identify deviations, and implement corrective actions.
- Ensure the control systems group maintains infrastructure for regulatory and advanced applications.
- Author technical reports and project documents for process improvements and targets.
- Draft capital requests and project charters for initiatives advancing recovery, quality, safety, or cost reduction.
- Manage external suppliers and consultants, ensuring safety and compliance during on-site projects
Essential skills and knowledge
- Electrical, Metallurgical, Chemical engineer degree or equivalent experience;
- Minimum 5 years of designing and implementing real-time optimization strategies in mineral or metallurgical processing circuit (e.g. Crushing, Grinding, Flotation, Dewatering).
- Minimum 3 years of supervisory experience with technical teams;
- Knowledge with instrumentation, PLC/DCS, HMI, historian, communications (e.g. OPC);
- Experience reviewing and developing PFDs, P&IDs and HAZOPs;
- Knowledge in data science techniques to find data patterns, anomalies and optimization opportunities, advanced process control (e.g. advanced regulatory control, fuzzy, MPC, Expert, etc.);
- Knowledge of data exploration, preparation and machine learning modeling. Ability to document work, interpret, translate and communicate analytical findings using effective relevant visualizations;
- Self-motivated team player with the ability to mentor and motivate;
- Must be eligible for Professional Engineer membership in the Association of Professional Engineers and Geo-Scientists of the Province of British Columbia (APEGBC);
- Must have a valid driver's license (BC 7N or equivalent).
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