ABOUT THE COMPANY
An 80+ year old specialist in fine physical mineral separation. The company is not a traditional OEM. While the company manufactures equipment -- spirals and gravity separation, magnetic and electrostatic separation, advanced surge bins, and mobile mining units -- its differentiator is process and metallurgical expertise. Clients do not call to source a pump. They call because their recovery is off, their grade is declining, or their flow sheet is not performing and they need someone who can walk in, read the plant quickly, and deliver credible, actionable answers. The Engineering and Management Projects (EMP) business unit in the Americas is in active build-out and this role is one of four approved positions driving that growth.
THE ROLE
The Senior Process Consultant is a site-based technical advisory role responsible for diagnosing plant performance, identifying improvement opportunities, and delivering decision-grade recommendations to clients across the Americas. This is an individual contributor role -- influence is exercised through expertise and professional credibility, not through a team. The right person walks into an unfamiliar operation, quickly reads what is happening, and has the commercial awareness to understand where a conversation should go next. They do not need to be managed on travel or activity. They bring their own network, their own pipeline instincts, and the judgment to know when to push and when to step back.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Lead site-based mineral processing diagnostics, audits, and sampling campaigns across the Americas -- independently or in support of the broader BD team
• Analyse plant performance data and metallurgical results to identify practical, prioritised improvement opportunities addressing recovery, throughput, cost, and risk
• Deliver decision-grade recommendations and facilitate client workshops -- building trusted advisor relationships with operations leaders, processing and maintenance teams, and client management
• Mobilise the company's testwork, lab services, and engineering support to validate improvement options and de-risk next steps for clients
• Identify and progress commercial opportunities arising from consulting engagements -- contribute to the regional sales pipeline and support proposal development
• Help expand the Americas footprint beyond the traditional iron ore and mineral sands base into tailings reprocessing, water management, base metals, and precious metals
• Travel approximately 1.5 to 2 weeks per month across the Americas for site engagements -- setting your own travel plan and cadence based on pipeline priorities
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
• Base salary: $180,000 -- $200,000
• Remote work arrangement -- near a major North American hub with strong access to mining and minerals activity
• All travel expenses covered
• Full comprehensive benefits: health, dental, vision, 401(k), PTO
IDEAL CANDIDATE
• 10+ years of experience in mineral processing operations, consulting, or technical services -- with at least 3 to 5 of those years spent actively helping develop and win business or contributing to client-facing project and consulting engagements
• Tertiary qualification in Metallurgy, Mineral Processing, Chemical Engineering, or a related discipline
• Advanced mineral processing knowledge across multiple commodity types -- traditional iron ore and mineral sands are covered; exposure to base metals, precious metals, tailings reprocessing, or water management is genuinely valued
• Has operated independently in the market -- not someone who has always had a large team or corporate infrastructure around them; has found their own way into rooms and conversations without being handed leads
• Can walk into a plant and read it within 5 minutes -- understands the nuance of how an operation actually runs and what it means to be accountable for process performance under real production constraints
• Commercially aware -- understands long sales cycles (18 months to 3 to 5 years in this market), what clients are investing in, and how to move an opportunity forward without forcing it
• Background from companies such as Hatch, Worley, SNC-Lavalin, Sedgman, Outotec, Metso, Weir, FLSmidth, McLanahan, CDE, or similar -- EPCM, OEM technical services, or independent consulting backgrounds are all relevant
• Based near a major hub with access to mining activity -- Vancouver, Montreal, Denver, Salt Lake City, and the Texas corridor are all viable; the key is proximity to customers and easy access to major airports
• This role is not for someone who needs structure, training programmes, or clear processes handed to them -- if the first question in an interview is about training, it is the wrong person
WHY THIS ROLE
• The company leads with process knowledge, not product catalogues -- the Senior Process Consultant is the differentiator that earns client trust before equipment ever enters a conversation
• If you have spent your career solving the same problems on the same sites and want to spend the next chapter applying that knowledge across a diverse portfolio of clients, commodities, and operations -- this is built for that
• The Americas EMP business is being built now -- there is genuine influence over where it goes and what it becomes
• The company has 80+ years of institutional process knowledge and global capability in Australia and South Africa behind it; the Senior Process Consultant in North America has that full weight to draw on