Technical Manager

Brunel is currently searching for a Technical Manager – Pyrometallurgy & Smelting for a long-term contract position with our client, this contractor position will work from home with business trips to New Orleans, Louisiana & Indonesia.

Technical Manager – Pyrometallurgy & Smelting

Provide technical leadership for a large capital project execution from concept through project delivery with emphasis on pyrometallurgy, smelting, concentrate treatment, and integration of process solutions into executable project scope.

Responsible for development of technical strategy, management of engineering consultants and subject matter experts, evaluation of applicable technologies, and conversion of process studies into clear scopes of work that integrate process, infrastructure, environmental, operational, and commercial requirements into a viable project solution.

The Technical Manager supports project development and works closely with project management, operations, metallurgy, environmental, commercial, and executive leadership to ensure the selected solution achieves business objectives.

The project integrates mining, metallurgy, smelting, environmental, and commercial considerations to support long-term operational performance, regulatory compliance, and value optimization across the value chain.

Technology and Process Development

• Lead evaluation and selection of pyrometallurgical and smelting-related technologies.
• Direct development of process design criteria and technical requirements.
• Challenge and validate consultant recommendations and technical assumptions.
• Evaluate alternative technologies and identify opportunities to improve project economics and performance.
• Maintain awareness of industry developments, emerging technologies, and practices relevant to copper concentrate treatment and impurity reduction.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering activities involving process, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, utilities, marine, and infrastructure systems.
• Serve as the technical focal point for engineering consultants and external subject matter experts.
• Review engineering deliverables to ensure alignment with project objectives and design criteria.
• Lead technical risk identification, mitigation planning, and decision-making processes.
• Lead the effort to translate process studies, trade-off work, and technical recommendations into defined scopes of work suitable for engineering, estimating, scheduling, contracting, and execution.
• Drive technical development through study phases, including trade-off studies, FEL development, feasibility evaluations, and execution planning.
• Ensure technical scope definition adequately supports cost estimates, schedules, and execution strategies.
• Work closely with site operations, maintenance, metallurgy, concentrate logistics, and commercial stakeholders.
• Ensure proposed solutions can be safely operated and maintained in a production environment.
• Communicate technical issues and recommendations effectively to both technical personnel and senior leadership.
• Build alignment among diverse stakeholder groups with differing objectives and priorities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical, Metallurgical, Mining, Mechanical, or related Engineering discipline.
• 15 years of engineering and project development experience in mining, mineral processing, metallurgy, heavy industrial facilities, or related industries.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Chemical, Metallurgical, Mining, Mechanical, or related Engineering discipline.
• Demonstrated experience progressing projects through concept, prefeasibility, feasibility, and engineering execution phases.
• Experience leading engineering teams on large capital projects.
• Proven Technical Expertise in the following:
• Copper concentrators and concentrate handling systems.
• Smelter process design
• Hydrometallurgical or pyrometallurgical processing
• Concentrate treatment or impurity reduction processes.
• Environmental compliance and emissions control systems
• Industrial utilities and infrastructure systems.

Offer:

Full-time employees are eligible for benefits. Benefits include medical, dental and vision that will begin on your first day of employment. 401K matching – 50% match, up to 3%.