International Mineral Processing, Technical Leader

**JOB SUMMARY*** Leads SSMA practices and promotes collaboration, feedback, and development within teams. * Plays a leading role in refining production simulations, ensuring proper integration of mass, quality, and tailings variables across planning interfaces. * Leads the definition of ROM specifications and quality limits, integrating mine and geology inputs to strengthen resource efficiency. * Leads optimization and risk assessment initiatives that enhance reliability and recovery outcomes across operations. * Provides technical knowledge in start\-up and ramp\-up activities, ensuring effective integration across process areas. * Leads the monitoring and critical review of process variables across areas, supporting continuous improvement and stronger process control. * Leads production plan integration activities, evaluating ROM variability and anticipating risks to production and quality. * Leads the application of geometallurgy, strengthening predictability and integration between mine and plant. * Acts across functions, connecting technical solutions with operational needs and strengthening collaboration among areas. * Provides recognized technical expertise to different stakeholders, connecting technical requirements with business needs. * Leads integration between operations and engineering across multiple areas, ensuring technical consistency. * Leads the development of simulation tools that strengthen planning quality and optimization capabilities. * Strengthens technical robustness coordinating peer reviews and supporting the development of scale\-up criteria. * Leads the development of optimized material handling solutions that improve continuity and performance. * Contributes to the technical positioning of products across regions, linking process knowledge with market needs. * Leads technical assessments in origination, ensuring alignment between ore characteristics, plant capabilities, and market requirements. * Leads the development of process intelligence concepts and tools that strengthen operational insight. * Participates in technical evaluations and due diligence processes related to business opportunities. * Leads evaluation and implementation efforts for new technologies with application potential. * Leads the execution of industrial tests, ensuring technical consistency and learning capture. * Leads evaluation of technical and economic aspects of initiatives, ensuring alignment between cost, performance, and expected gains across operations. * Leads execution of innovation and R\&D initiatives, ensuring technical consistency and alignment with operational challenges. **KEY CHALLENGES*** Establish trusted relationships across multiple plants, acting as a recognized technical partner who connects operational needs with process solutions and reinforces alignment across teams. * Promote knowledge sharing across teams and sites, strengthening retention of expertise and consistent application of best practices. * Translate broader technical priorities into actionable initiatives, maintaining alignment across teams and projects. * Lead refinement of predictive models and simulation routines, strengthening the quality of technical inputs used for production planning and decision support. * Lead cross\-functional integration between geology, mine planning, and process teams to improve ROM specification definition and strengthen operational consistency. * Lead risk anticipation and optimization initiatives across process areas, improving recovery, product quality, and operational reliability in international plants. * Lead technical support during start\-up and ramp\-up, ensuring coordinated action across functions and mitigating risks to production stability. * Lead the use of geometallurgy and integrated mine\-to\-plant approaches to improve predictability of production and process performance. * Lead initiatives to test and implement new technologies and process improvements, strengthening competitiveness and sustainability in the operating context. * Promote SSMA behaviors, open dialogue, and people development across teams, helping reduce exposure to risk and strengthen collaborative routines. * Actively contribute to studies with CSS and Origination, facilitating technical information sharing related to plant behavior, ore characteristics, and product performance in a multicultural environment. * Contribute to benchmarking and market\-based analyses, translating external references into practical opportunities for process and performance enhancement. **MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES** * Responsible for leading SSMA practices and collaboration routines that strengthen people development and operational discipline. * Responsible for leading production plan simulations and integrating mass, quality, and tailings variables into technical planning routines. * Responsible for defining ROM specifications and quality limits and ensuring alignment with geology and mine planning requirements. * Responsible for leading risk and optimization studies across operations and translating findings into practical technical actions. * Responsible for leading start\-up and ramp\-up support and ensuring coordination across process areas. * Responsible for leading process monitoring and critical analysis across areas to improve control, stability, and performance. * Responsible for leading production plan integration and anticipating risks to quality and production through better cross\-functional alignment. * Responsible for leading geometallurgical application and improving integration between mine and plant perspectives. * Responsible for connecting operational demands and technical solutions across functions to strengthen alignment and execution. * Responsible for providing expertise to multiple stakeholders and connecting technical needs with operational and business requirements. * Responsible for leading and enabling the application of simulation tools, ensuring their effectiveness in planning and optimization routines. * Responsible for leading technical reviews, contributing to the definition of scale\-up criteria and validation requirements, and developing characterization proposals and plans. * Responsible for leading optimized material handling solutions that improve stability, continuity, and performance. * Responsible for contributing to technical product positioning across regions and linking process understanding with market needs. * Responsible for leading technical assessments in origination and ensuring alignment between ore, plant, and market fit. * Responsible for leading process intelligence development and improving the quality of operational insights across teams. * Responsible for participating in due diligence evaluations and helping connect technical findings with business needs. * Responsible for leading evaluation and implementation of new technologies with practical application potential. * Responsible for leading industrial test execution and ensuring technical learning is captured and applied. * Responsible for leading evaluation of budgets and gains and ensuring technical and economic alignment across initiatives. * Responsible for leading R\&D activities and coordinating partnerships with universities, suppliers, and research centers. **QUALIFICATIONS** Academic background * Bachelor’s degree in Mineral Processing, Metallurgical, or Chemical Engineering; Master’s degree desirable as a differentiation factor. * Years of Experience \- 10–15 years * Languages \- Fluency in English; Portuguese is desirable, depending on role and location context. * Mineral characterization \- Solid experience applying mineral characterization to process performance and optimization. * Mass balance / simulation / data reconciliation (METSIM / JKSimMet / USIM PAC / BILCO) \- Adjusts models, interprets results, and uses software tools autonomously for process analysis, mass balance, and data integration. * Statistics / DOE / advanced analysis (Minitab / JMP / Design\-Expert / STATGRAPHICS \- Performs more robust statistical analysis (e.g., SPC, DOE) and interprets results with technical autonomy. * Productivity / data analysis / technical communication (Excel / PowerPoint) \- Organizes data, performs simple calculations, and prepares clear basic technical presentations. * Innovation processes \- Experience contributing to innovation projects and supporting implementation of new technologies. * Due diligence \- Experience supporting due diligence with structured and consistent technical input. * Project development \- Experience participating in and contributing to project development and optimization. * International exposure \- Some experience interacting with different regions or supporting international initiatives. Behavioral Profile * Balances independent work with collaborative engagement across teams * Combines technical analysis with input from others to reach balanced decisions * Connects detailed analysis with broader system implications * Open to change when it improves performance and integration * Builds trust through collaboration and knowledge sharing * Systems thinking; structured problem solving * Cross\-functional communication; active listening * Collaboration across areas; knowledge sharing * Ownership of deliverables; coordination * Analytical \- Data analysis; problem solving; attention to detail * Discipline; time management; reliability * Strong interpersonal communication skills * Strong multicultural and multidisciplinary background