Metallurgy Superintendent

Fortescue has an exciting future ahead. As well as producing over 180 million tonnes of iron ore per year, we’re diversifying our business to become an integrated global green energy and resources company.

Superintendent Metallurgist  

Work Location: Perth - Fortescue’s Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people.

Roster: Monday to Friday

We are currently seeking a highly motivated and experienced Superintendent Metallurgist, for a full-time Perth based opportunity. This role will report to the Manager Metallurgy.

Key responsibilities include:

• Support development of team and strong culture, whilst provide guidance to stakeholders
• Be flexible to adapt to changing priorities, have a passion to think outside the box and be able to prioritise
• Review short and long term OPF performance against plan assumptions/ regression predictions
• Assist site with implementing standard procedures to ensure accuracy and integrity of measurements
• Investigate relationships between key metrics and material characteristics
• Planning, coordination & metallurgical evaluation of multiple projects con-currently (Diamond drilling & other studies)

 Qualifications and Experience:

• At least 12 years’ experience in a Metallurgy role (ideally of which at least 3 years should be Iron ore and a mix of site operational experience)
• Knowledge or experience with Mine Geology & Geometallurgy teams, including behaviour of ore during comminution and associated mineral extraction technologies such as magnetic separation and classification highly regarded.
• Tertiary Qualification in Metallurgy/ Mineral processing or similar
• Excellent communication both verbal and written with strong analytics skills
• Knowledge of data science, machine learning, mine planning systems, Tableau, R, Python highly regarded
• Team orientation and strong ability to take initiatives towards continuous improvement

Fortescue is deeply committed to providing a safe culture that builds respect, fosters inclusiveness, and values diversity. We celebrate individual strengths and team members from all backgrounds are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with across the world. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with differing abilities, LGBTIQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

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Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified