Principal Engineer, Extractive Metallurgy
Core
Senior technical authority owning the metallurgical basis of design for recycling and refining flowsheets, liberating, separating, and refining metals from recycled feedstocks.
Role type
Principal Engineer, Extractive Metallurgy (Strategic IC)
Builds
Recycling and refining flowsheets for battery metals and critical minerals
Domain
Extractive Metallurgy / Mineral Processing / Battery Recycling
Required skills
Extractive metallurgy, Mineral processing, Pyrometallurgy, Hydrometallurgy, Flowsheet design, Scale-up, Mass and energy balances, Equipment selection, Impurity deportment analysis, Vendor test campaign management
Preferred skills
Deep industrial-scale experience in both pyrometallurgy and hydrometallurgy, Hands-on plant environment experience (smelter/refinery/concentrator), Comminution and physical separation of heterogeneous feedstocks
Technologies
None explicitly listed
Responsibilities
Lead evaluation and selection of competing flowsheet options, Own metallurgical basis for intermediate and final product quality specifications, Direct strategy for mineral processing and mechanical separation, Guide scale-up from bench through pilot to commercial operation, Advise operations and process engineering teams on recovery and yield shortfalls
Seniority
Principal, strategic individual contributor with C-level interaction