ABOUT THE COMPANY
An 80+ year old specialist in fine physical mineral separation with a global footprint across iron ore, mineral sands, chrome, and industrial minerals. The company wins long-term, high-margin work by delivering credible, technically rigorous studies that define the pathway from a customer's operational problem to a contracted engineering or capital solution. Engineering studies are the entry point -- a scoping study becomes a pre-feasibility, which becomes a detailed design, which delivers modular plants and equipment. The Study Manager is the technical authority who makes that pathway work.
THE ROLE
The Study Manager owns the full study lifecycle -- scoping, planning, execution, and delivery -- across conceptual, scoping, pre-feasibility, and feasibility-level studies for the Americas. This is not a review role. The Study Manager is hands-on: producing process-side content, shaping study scope alongside the customer, and owning quality from first principles through to final report. This role demands a practitioner who earns technical credibility by doing the work. The Study Manager also manages the study outcomes actively, structuring recommendations to build the technical and commercial case for the next stage of work with the company.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Own end-to-end delivery of process studies from scoping to final report: conceptual, scoping, pre-feasibility (PFS), and feasibility-level (FS) across industrial minerals, mineral sands, iron ore, and base metals
• Develop and maintain study execution plans including scope of work, schedule, resource plan, cost estimate, assumptions register, and risk log
• Manage multidisciplinary study teams -- coordinating process, metallurgical, mechanical, civil/structural, and cost-estimation inputs across internal teams and external subcontractors
• Drive study schedule adherence and cost control; escalate scope variations early and manage change with the customer proactively
• Lead process engineering content within studies: flowsheet development, mass and water balance, equipment selection, testwork interpretation, and process design criteria
• Translate metallurgical testwork results into practical process designs working closely with the laboratory and metallurgical teams
• Work with the BD team to define study scope with customers: understand the decision the study is meant to support and design the scope accordingly
• Lead study scoping workshops on customer sites; build direct relationships with customer process engineers, project managers, and technical leads
• Present study findings with confidence to mine-level and board-level audiences
• Structure study recommendations to build the technical and commercial case for the next stage of work -- always playing the study-to-project-to-product pathway
• Establish and apply a consistent study delivery framework for the Americas: templates, review gates, estimate accuracy standards, and deliverable checklists aligned to AACE or equivalent
• Travel regularly across the Americas for site engagements and study scoping workshops
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
• Base salary: $130,000 -- $160,000 depending on experience
• Remote work arrangement -- North America preferred; Mid-Atlantic / Appalachian region advantageous for proximity to existing customer base
• All travel expenses covered
• Full comprehensive benefits: health, dental, vision, 401(k), PTO
IDEAL CANDIDATE
• 10+ years of experience in process engineering or project
• Degree in Chemical/Process Engineering, Metallurgy, Mineral Processing, or a closely related engineering discipline
• Demonstrated track record managing studies from PFS to FS level -- has owned scope, schedule, cost, and customer reporting in a lead capacity
• Hands-on process engineering competence: flowsheet development, mass balance, equipment selection, and testwork interpretation -- not solely a project management background
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary study teams across process, mechanical, civil, and estimating disciplines
• Direct customer-facing experience at study review and executive presentation level
• Background in fine mineral processing -- spirals, classification, DMS, flotation, or gravity separation technologies is directly relevant
• Experience in target commodity sectors: industrial minerals, mineral sands, iron ore, tin, or base metals beneficiation
• Familiarity with AACE study classification and estimate accuracy standards is a plus
• Experience working across both North and South American mining markets; Spanish or Portuguese language skills are an advantage
WHY THIS ROLE
• The company wins by doing the technical work better than the competition -- the Study Manager is the person who makes that true; this is a practitioner role, not an oversight role
• Every study is different -- new commodities, new flowsheets, new operational problems across a diverse Americas portfolio
• 80+ years of institutional process knowledge and a global lab, metallurgical, and engineering team to draw on
• Genuine influence over how the Americas study program is built -- framework, tools, templates, and delivery standards are yours to establish
• The study-to-project-to-product pathway creates a visible, tangible connection between the work you deliver and the business you help win
• Corporate startup energy with the brand and backing of an established global company