Technical Manager - Pyrometallurgy & Smelting

Technical Manager – Pyrometallurgy & Smelting

 

Location: WFH with business trips to sites US/International

 

Summary:

The Technical Manager – Pyrometallurgy & Smelting provides technical leadership for a large capital project from concept development through project delivery. This role is responsible for advancing technical strategy, evaluating and selecting process technologies, managing engineering consultants and subject matter experts, and converting process studies into executable project scopes. The position works closely with project management, operations, metallurgy, environmental, commercial, and executive stakeholders to develop practical, integrated solutions that support long-term operational performance, regulatory compliance, and value optimization.

 

Job Duties:

Technology and Process Development

• Lead the evaluation and selection of pyrometallurgical and smelting-related technologies.
• Direct the development of process design criteria and technical requirements.
• Challenge and validate consultant recommendations, technical assumptions, and engineering conclusions.
• Evaluate alternative technologies and identify opportunities to improve project economics and performance.
• Maintain awareness of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices related to copper concentrate treatment and impurity reduction.

Engineering Leadership and Coordination

• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering activities across process, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, utilities, marine, and infrastructure disciplines.
• Serve as the primary technical interface for engineering consultants and external subject matter experts.
• Review engineering deliverables to ensure alignment with project objectives, technical standards, and design criteria.
• Manage technical risk identification, mitigation planning, and key technical decision-making processes.

Project Development and Execution

• Translate process studies, trade-off evaluations, and technical recommendations into clearly defined scopes of work suitable for engineering, estimating, scheduling, contracting, and execution.
• Drive technical development through project study phases, including trade-off studies, FEL development, feasibility evaluations, and execution planning.
• Ensure technical scope definition adequately supports project cost estimates, schedules, and execution strategies.
• Provide technical leadership throughout project development and implementation.

 

Stakeholder Engagement and Operational Integration

• Collaborate closely with operations, maintenance, metallurgy, concentrate logistics, environmental, and commercial stakeholders.
• Ensure proposed solutions can be safely operated, maintained, and integrated into a production environment.
• Communicate technical issues, risks, recommendations, and project decisions effectively to both technical teams and senior leadership.
• Build alignment among diverse stakeholder groups with differing objectives and priorities.
• Support the integration of mining, metallurgy, smelting, environmental, and commercial considerations into a cohesive project solution.

 

Job Requirements:

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, Mining Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• Advanced degree in Chemical Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, Mining Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline preferred.

Experience

• Minimum of 15 years of engineering and project development experience within mining, mineral processing, metallurgy, heavy industrial facilities, or related industries.
• Demonstrated experience progressing projects through concept, prefeasibility, feasibility, engineering, and execution phases.
• Experience leading engineering teams and managing technical workstreams on large capital projects.

Technical Knowledge

• Copper concentrators and concentrate handling systems.
• Smelter process design and operations.
• Hydrometallurgical and/or pyrometallurgical processing technologies.
• Concentrate treatment and impurity reduction processes.
• Environmental compliance, permitting considerations, and emissions control systems.
• Industrial utilities and infrastructure systems.
• Technical risk management and project development methodologies.
• Engineering consultant management and multidisciplinary project coordination.

 

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit, walk and stand; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands repetitively to finger, handle, feel or operate standard office equipment. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.

 

About Teal Energi:

TealEnergi is a technical manpower provider with extensive experience supporting the successful execution and operation of major capital project investments. Forged through a desire to provide best-in-class service to clients, candidates, and contractors alike, TealEnergi works through its offices nationwide to provide regional support to a wide range of sectors including both traditional energy and energy transition initiatives (e.g., LNG, hydrogen, wind, solar), as well as manufacturing, mining, and infrastructure.

TealEnergi is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, disability, ethnicity, gender or gender identity, language, national origin, physical or mental ability, political affiliation, religion, sexual orientation, or protected veteran status.