Manager, Metallurgy & Processing

Functional & Technical Leadership

• Lead the Processing and Metallurgy function in alignment with Nevada Projects’ strategic objectives.
• Ensure metallurgical activities comply with AGA governance, methodologies, and company standards—particularly during high‑impact technical decisions.
• Provide governance for process design criteria, flowsheet selection, metallurgical accounting, and recovery modeling.
• Ensure metallurgical scope and deliverables meet each project’s stage‑gate and execution readiness requirements.

Project Development & Economic Assurance

• Lead development of metallurgical inputs for Concept Study (CS), PFS, and FS level capital and operating cost estimates.
• Ensure recovery assumptions, reagent consumption forecasts, and operating philosophies are technically sound and economically optimized.
• Validate technical trade‑offs and recovery models supporting project business cases.
• Review and approve operating philosophies, metallurgical control strategies, and performance assumptions appropriate to project maturity.

Metallurgical Testwork & Technical Integration

• Govern metallurgical testwork programs, laboratory methods, sampling systems, scale‑up approaches, and metallurgical accounting frameworks.
• Ensure testwork, modeling, and recovery assumptions are fit‑for‑purpose for the project phase.
• Integrate metallurgical deliverables with Engineering, Mining, Geology, Infrastructure, Project Controls, and Finance functions.
• Support commissioning, ramp‑up, and performance validation by ensuring process design intent is preserved through execution.

Stakeholder & Contractor Management

• Serve as the primary liaison between technical metallurgy and senior project leadership.
• Manage senior‑level relationships with EPCM contractors, metallurgical laboratories, and specialty consultants.
• Maintain accountability for technical performance and commercial aspects associated with metallurgical service providers.

People, Safety & Culture

• Foster a positive, collaborative, and high‑performance culture within the processing and metallurgy team.
• Provide technical mentoring and guidance to metallurgical professionals and project team members.
• Promote and lead safe execution of metallurgical testwork, studies, and site‑based activities.
• Ensure all metallurgical activities comply with safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements.