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Senior Metallurgist
@ St Barbara Limited
Middle Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia
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Overview
St Barbara Limited's Atlantic Operations is hiring a Senior Metallurgist for a full-time, permanent role reporting to the Site Manager at the Touquoy mine near Middle Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia. The work covers safety leadership, tailings management plans, budgeting, daily to annual metallurgical balances, gold production optimization and training plant staff. The posting requires a P.Eng. or eligibility for transfer, a PMP designation and at least eight years of industrial experience.
Responsibilities:
- Lead safe work practices and investigate safety concerns
- Create and maintain SOPs and the TMF OMS, OPRP and EPRP plans
- Oversee tailings and metallurgy budgeting and forecasting
- Produce daily to annual metallurgical balances
- Optimize gold production and metallurgical KPIs
Requirements summary:
- Bachelor's in metallurgical, materials or chemical engineering
- P.Eng. registration or eligibility via interprovincial mobility
- PMP designation
- Minimum eight years of industrial experience, seven in leadership
- Grinding, gravity recovery, CIL and test work experience preferred
Tools & skills
Regulatory complianceOMSBudget managementForecastingSample preparationMaterials scienceChemical engineeringP.Eng.PMPDecision making
Benefits mentioned
Health insuranceRetirement planTuition support
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-13
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-14
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-14
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Experience | 8+ years |
| Management experience | 7+ years |
| Manages people | Yes |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Plant or factory, Laboratory, Office |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer moderate |
| Languages | English |
| Licences & certifications | P.Eng., PMP |
| Encouraged to apply | Indigenous peoples, Women, Racialized people |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (required) |
| Fields of study | Metallurgical Engineering, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering |
| Perks mentioned | Retirement plan |
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St Barbara Limited
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 4 |
Job description
Atlantic Operations is a wholly owned subsidiary of St Barbara Limited, an ASX listed gold producer and explorer with mining assets in Canada and Australia.
We are currently seeking a Senior Metallurgist. This role is a full time, permanent position, reporting to the Site Manager and will be based at our Touquoy mine site located approximately 1-hour northeast of Halifax, near Middle Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia.
The Opportunity
Members of the Mi’ kmaq community are encouraged to self-identify in your cover letter.
We would like to thank all those who apply; however, only those selected for an interview will be notified.
For further information about St Barbara, visit https://stbarbaragold.ca
Please understand that screening and interviewing may take place prior to the advertised close date.
We are currently seeking a Senior Metallurgist. This role is a full time, permanent position, reporting to the Site Manager and will be based at our Touquoy mine site located approximately 1-hour northeast of Halifax, near Middle Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia.
The Opportunity
- Leading the implementation of safe work practices by ensuring work conditions and procedures within the Department are held to a high standard.
- Proactively identifying safety issues and investigating all safety and health concerns and continuously enhancing safety measures.
- Creating and maintaining safe work procedures (SOP) and practices, as well as ensuring compliance of yourself and your department by completing all required training on time. Where procedures do not exist, the Senior Metallurgist will ensure that the appropriate risk assessments are conducted.
- Creating, maintaining, managing, executing and approving the Atlantic Operations’ TMF Operation, Maintenance, and Surveillance (OMS) Manual; TMF Operational Preparedness and Response Plan (OPRP); and the TMF Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan (EPRP).
- Overseeing budgeting and forecasting of the Tailings, Metallurgy department, and offsite Assay Lab work across the Atlantic Operations.
- Producing accurate metallurgical balance on a daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.
- Ensuring gold production targets are met or exceeded in a safe and efficient manner by analyzing production trends, developing & optimizing metallurgical KPIs and providing systems by which these parameters can be monitored by the process operations team.
- Training and supporting plant operating personnel on industry standard methods, metallurgical best practices including, but not limited to, sampling and sample preparation methods and KPI monitoring.
- Bachelor's degree in Metallurgical Engineering, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline from a recognized university.
- Registration in good standing as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) with Engineers Nova Scotia or must be eligible for immediate transfer or registration via interprovincial mobility, including successfully passing the National Professional Practice Examination (NPPE).
- Project Management Professional (PMP) Designation.
- A minimum of eight years of pertinent experience in an industrial environment with at least 7 years of progressive leadership development.
- Theoretical and practical experience with grinding, gravity recovery, CIL, Zadra elution and/or cyanide detoxification, and tailings circuits preferred but not required.
- Ability to develop, perform and interpret Metallurgical test work.
- Must possess a systematic approach to problems solving and decision making.
- 'Grow our own Success' approach with a preference to develop and promote internally.
- Developed and structured professional development opportunities and educational assistance.
- Competitive compensation, health benefits and RRSP matching program.
- 2020 PDAC Viola R. MacMillan Award recipients for developing the Touquoy open pit mine and consolidating other gold deposits near Moose River.
- Be a part of the high performing St Barbara community – a proud Equal Opportunity Employer and Employer of Choice.
Members of the Mi’ kmaq community are encouraged to self-identify in your cover letter.
We would like to thank all those who apply; however, only those selected for an interview will be notified.
For further information about St Barbara, visit https://stbarbaragold.ca
Please understand that screening and interviewing may take place prior to the advertised close date.
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