Senior Metallurgist Job In Truro

Senior Metallurgist opportunity working for a rapidly growing lithium business promising to revolutionise the production of battery grade lithium in Europe.

Job Description

• The purpose of the role is to lead the development, scale-up and design of novel process technologies for extracting lithium from micaceous granites.
• The role is accountable for the successful integration of beneficiation process technologies into the process design for the project.
• Leading dialogue with external parties, design engineers, and project stakeholders in
• defining, specifying and de-risking the process technology that will deliver lithium carbonate product to the market.
• Leading the process development, scale-up and derisking of the comminution and beneficiation process technologies and operating conditions as they are transferred through to commercial implementation

Requirements

• University degree in Mineral, Process or Metallurgical Engineering
• Experience in the scale-up of minerals process technologies within a mining environment
• Experience in scaling process technology from bench to commercial scales
• Knowledge of process engineering design deliverables
• Experience in common process simulation softwares, such as MetSIM, JK SimMet, SysCAD,
• etc.

Benefits

• The chance to be part of an entrepreneurial business whilst also being part of a larger, established Mining Group (Partner in joint-venture)
• Assistance with relocation costs
• Up to 9% employer pension contributions
• Life assurances, income protection
• 25 days holidays plus bank holidays