Job title : Regional Hydrometallurgical Lead
Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg
Deadline : November 22, 2024
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Demonstrated skills are needed in:
- Unit processes for leaching, solvent extraction, neutralization, crystallization, IX, dewatering, filtering, electrowinning, etc.
- Design, coordination and supervision of laboratory test work,
- Plant audits, surveys, sampling campaigns, and circuit optimization,
- Mathematical modelling and simulations
- Writing technical reports and engineering documentation
- Mentoring of more junior staff
- Client engagement and business growth
- Hatch culture and approach to delivering projects
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Supporting the development of new business including maintaining and nurturing existing client relationships.
- Leading or participating in the preparation of proposals
- Mentoring and developing staff with a focus on culture and technical progress
- Performing process engineering tasks on Hydrometallurgical aspects of projects, in a variety of commodities, including;
- Acting as Lead Process Engineer on projects or studies.
- Undertaking trade off studies to resolve options.
- Actively engaging clients to understand project requirements.
- Developing process design, process design criteria, capacity analysis, process calculations, equipment sizing, process control logic.
- Developing Process Flow Diagrams, along with associated mass and energy balances.
- Input to Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams.
- Process review of equipment bids, proposals, and other initiatives
- Liaising with other discipline engineers to ensure designs conform to process requirements
Qualifications and Experience:
- Process Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, or Chemical Engineering degree.
- Extensive design experience, but also with commissioning and/or operational experience of hydrometallurgical processing equipment
- Experience in scoping and management of metallurgical testwork programs (benchscale, pilot scale, on-site testing)
- Strong client and business development focus.
- Ability to lead processing engineering tasks on a project, within the allocated budget and schedule, including mentoring and guidance of junior colleagues
- Ability to communicate effectively with both internal and external clients on a technical and interpersonal level
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