Superintendent, Metallurgy ( Mount Milligan
Listed on 2026-09-23
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Engineering
Process Engineer, Materials Engineering, Quality Engineering
Location: Fort St. James
- Become a valuable addition to Centerra's Mount Milligan Mine team
- Boost your career by joining an established organization
- Receive a competitive wage of $150,000 – 170,000 per year, plus bonus and benefits
Headquartered in Toronto, Centerra Gold (TSX: CG) is one of the leading North American gold and copper producers engaged in the operation, exploration, development, and acquisition of quality mining assets in Asia, North America, and other markets worldwide.
Centerra’s vision is to build a team-based culture of excellence that responsibly delivers sustainable value and growth. We are committed to the safety, integrity, ethics, and fairness of our operations, promoting the highest standards of ethical business conduct of our employees, officers, and directors.
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About Mount Milligan MineLocated approximately 155 kilometres northwest of Prince George in central BC, the Mount Milligan Mine is a conventional truck‑shovel open‑pit copper and gold mine and concentrator with a 60,000 tpd capacity copper flotation processing plant.
Mount Milligan operates with comfortable camp accommodations equipped with private washrooms, TV, Wi‑Fi, an onsite gym, and other recreational activities. Bus transportation to and from site is provided free of charge from several locations within the region.
Mount Milligan promotes a drug and alcohol‑free workplace and has adopted a zero‑tolerance policy with respect to alcohol or unauthorized drugs on site.
About The OpportunityMount Milligan is seeking a Superintendent, Metallurgy to lead the metallurgical, process engineering, and on‑site assay functions to generate accurate data, maximize metal recovery, optimize plant performance, and ensure stable, efficient, and safe operation of the processing plant. This role provides technical leadership across comminution, flotation, gravity recovery, dewatering, sampling, and quantitative assaying within the mine. This role is critical to Mount Milligan’s copper–gold concentrator performance, requiring strong mine-to-mill integration, ore variability understanding and management, concentrate quality control, and leadership of recovery forecasting to support safe and profitable operations.
This is a camp based position working a 7 days on/7days off schedule.
Key Responsibilities Metallurgical & Process Performance- Lead daily/weekly metallurgical monitoring to optimize throughput, recovery, concentrate grade, and reagent consumption.
- Analyze mill KPIs (grinding performance, flotation response, gold recovery, recovery‑by‑size curves, etc.) and implement improvement strategies.
- Manage metallurgical testwork programs including variability testing, reagent scheme development, grinding/circuit optimization, and geometallurgy.
- Maintain the assaying, metallurgical balance, metal accounting systems, and reconciliation with the mill.
- Lead metallurgical response strategies to changes in ore and mineralogy.
- Coordinate with corporate resources and collaboratively provide long‑term strategic direction for process improvements, technology upgrades, debottlenecking, and cost reductions.
- Contribute to metallurgical aspects of life‑of‑mine planning including ore blending, ore characterization, and processing forecasts.
- Support capital project development (scope, design criteria, commissioning oversight, operational readiness).
- Champion advanced process control, machine learning, and real‑time metallurgy.
- Drive automated KPI dashboards and decision support tools.
- Support commercial team on concentrate performance and payable metals.
- Provide coaching and support to plant operations to troubleshoot processing challenges.
- Oversee metallurgical…
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