Job description
Job Posting Date: Apr 13, 2023
Function: Production
Location: Gordonsville, TN, US
Nyrstar is a global multi-metals business, with a market leading position in zinc and lead and growing positions in other base and precious metals. Nyrstar has mining, smelting and other operations located in Europe, the Americas and Australia and employs over 4,000 people. The company’s global operations are located close to key customers and major transport hubs to facilitate delivery of raw materials and distribution of finished products. In August 2019, Nyrstar’s operating business became majority owned by Trafigura, a market leader in the global commodities industry, providing a stable long term platform for its marketing leading operations worldwide.
THE ROLE
The purpose of this role is to provide metallurgical leadership & support to Nyrstar Tennessee Mines Gordonsville Mill with the objective of safely producing low cost, high quality zinc concentrate.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
Safety, Health, Environmental and Community
- Comply with statutory / legislative requirements
- Ensure SHEC guidelines and procedures are included in area plans, decision making, systems and processes
- Promote awareness and deliver work area targets to achieve zero harm surpassing safety objectives for your work area
- Be accountable for safety, health and environment activities of those around you
- Promote and monitor fitness for work compliance throughout the workforce
- Conduct business of your work area in exemplary manner in terms of ethical, commercial, legislative and community expectations and requirements
- Promote a high level of safety and environmental awareness amongst the Production teams
- Metallurgical Support
- Provide technical support where product and process developments are implemented to ensure optimum concentrate quality meeting company smelting and marketing objectives
- Identify and provide solutions for quality problems found by inspection and test planning
- Provide technical input to improve the quality of work in the technical section and the metallurgical laboratory
- Senior Metallurgist is responsible for assaying and assay lab
- Promote QA/QC
- Development of lab process/procedures
- Coordinate with production personnel to ensure the Mill operates to optimum metallurgical standards
- Lead process continual improvement be it coaching and mentoring the operating teams or physical improvement to the process units within the plant
- Determine processing improvements be it physical plant design or process changes from conceptual to implementation in line with targets and long term operational strategy
- Development of metallurgical improvements through conceptualization of improvement items through to planning and execution in an organized and clear process
- Specific bench testing and plant testing or plant surveys are the responsibility of the Senior Metallurgist to lead, drive and arrive at recommended overall process improvements
People and Organization
- Comply with policies, procedures, agreed values and behaviors and NTM Code of Conduct
- Effective people management of staff by setting clear performance objectives, providing regular feedback and development through coaching and training of employees in the production teams
- Promote development of junior technical staff and succession planning with regards to technical support
- Support development of operational staff (hourly and salary) through training and technical knowledge sharing
QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE
- Qualifications in Metallurgy or relevant degree
- Minimum five years’ experience in a Plant Metallurgist role preferably in a base metal and flotation plant with a minimum 2 years at a senior metallurgist level
- Hands on experience in plant operation be it through successive operating roles or through project management or plant operational improvement projects will be considered
COMPETENCIES
- Ability to encourage people and using their strengths
- Ability to establish and maintain a “be of service” culture among the team
- Demonstrate troubleshooting abilities leading up to creative solutions within budgetary tolerance
- Demonstrated project management:
- Results driven achiever with exemplary planning and organization skills specifically:
- Cycling from improvement requirements developed into test or implementation plans through to results that provide the business with clear direction
- Ability to plan, execute and complete is important
- Proven relationship builder with excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to communicate with and relate to all levels in the organization and with personnel from a wide range of backgrounds
- Goal driven who maintains a productive climate and confidently motivates, mobilizes and coaches employees to meet high performance standards
- Ability to direct employees to achieve set targets both through leadership and “influencing the line”
- Proficient spreadsheet and database applications
- Able to respond to issues & challenges with a sense of urgency
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of employee’s job
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with physical or mental impairments to perform the essential functions
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, grip, handle, or feel; reach, pull and push with hands and arms; and talk and hear
- The employee is occasionally required to climb and/or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
- The employee must also frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to outside weather conditions, extreme cold and extreme heat and occasionally exposed to confined spaces
- The employee is also occasionally exposed to vibration
- The noise level in the work environment varies for moderate to loud
Nearest Major Market: Nashville
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