Oxide Metallurgist - Vallenar

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Job Summary: Responsible for advising, supervising, and optimizing production processes through studies, engineering projects, and parameter control, ensuring compliance with regulations and quality standards. Key Highlights: 1. Advise on and optimize metallurgical production processes 2. Conduct metallurgical engineering studies and projects 3. Monitor metallurgical parameters and ensure quality **Oxide Metallurgist \- Vallenar (1 vacancy)** **Mining Engineers, Metallurgists, and Related Professionals \- Operators of Metal Processing Facilities** ============================================================================================================================================================= ### **CONTACT INFORMATION** **Company:** NATIONAL MINING COMPANY **Economic Activity:** Extraction of other non-ferrous metallic minerals n.e.c. (except zinc, lead, and manganese) ### **DESCRIPTION** Position Objective: Responsible for advising, supervising, and optimizing production processes through the execution of studies, engineering projects, metallurgical tests, control of metallurgical parameters, and efficient use of all resources in the production process, ensuring compliance with applicable regulations and the company's quality standards. Responsibilities: · Define objectives, scope, required investment, revenues, costs, and economic indicators for investment projects, ensuring achievement of departmental goals and targets. · Prepare and manage the departmental budget based on resources and services required for plant operations, ensuring achievement of departmental objectives. · Support implementation of the Integrated Management System for Cathode Quality Certification, ensuring compliance with current regulations and the company's quality standards. · Control variables in metallurgical test processes to meet the production schedule, ensuring that operations are carried out optimally and safely, complying with current safety and quality regulations. · Verify replenishment and proper handling of reagents and cathodes, monitoring process efficiency and best practices related to handling key reagents and inputs, ensuring cathode quality according to current regulations and the company's quality standards. · Verify parameters related to area processes, maintaining records of statistics and process parameters for leaching and SX\-EW based on ENAMI's daily operations manual. · Train shift supervisors and operators on operational, safety, environmental, and quality topics, ensuring adherence to process parameters and production and cathode quality targets. Atacama, Vallenar 04/08/2026 \- 15/09/2026 Confidential Full-time ### **REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS** **Education Level:** Completed Higher Education **Experience:** 2 years **Degrees Accepted:** * Mining and Metallurgical Engineering * Civil Metallurgical Engineering * Metallurgical Engineering (Applied) ### **CHARACTERISTICS** **Contract Type:** Fixed-term Contract **Position Level Offered:** Professional **Source of Posting:** WEB **Professional Practice Opportunity:** No **Suitable for the Following Employment Groups:** Persons with Disabilities View position requirements