Senior Metallurgist

Description

Skeena Gold + Silver Limited is a Canadian mining company with a portfolio of exploration and development projects located in northwest British Columbia, Canada. Our current focus is on the revitalization of the high-grade, past-producing Eskay Creek gold-silver mine. Skeena is committed to leading the industry in reconciliation, diversity, and inclusion and we work in close collaboration with our Indigenous partners, leveraging their traditional knowledge and respect for the land.

As a Skeena employee, you will become part of a dynamic, innovative, and results-driven work environment. Together, alongside colleagues of diverse backgrounds and experience you will help us operate safely, protect the environment, positively contribute to our local communities and build a state of the art mine in Canada. Come join our team to be a part of this amazing opportunity!

Reporting directly to the Chief Metallurgist, the Senior Metallurgist is responsible for providing technical metallurgical support, process monitoring, optimization, and troubleshooting across production circuits while supporting production, safety, and compliance expectations.

During pre-commissioning and commissioning, this role will support operational readiness through metallurgical input into process control strategies, operating procedures, safe work instructions (SWIs), sampling programs, and other duties as assigned.

Once operational, the role will provide technical oversight and metallurgical guidance across crushing, conveying, grinding, flotation, dewatering, and tailings areas.

As a key member of the Mill technical team, the Senior Metallurgist will play an integral role in developing process capability, supporting operational readiness, and driving continuous improvement in plant performance.

• Promote a proactive safety culture through technical field presence, hazard identification, job observations, and area audits.
• Enforce lockout/tagout, confined space, PPE, SOP/SWI, and JSEA requirements.
• Investigate and document incidents and ensure corrective actions are implemented.
• Maintain compliance with company policies, site standards, and applicable regulatory requirements.

• Support the commissioning team with metallurgical expertise, process sampling, data interpretation, and plant performance troubleshooting.
• Assist the Chief Metallurgist with operational readiness by assisting in the development of the metallurgical accounting database, performance monitoring guidelines, and the daily, weekly, and monthly (including reconciliation) reporting structure.
• Development of the sampling program with support from the assay lab.
• Support onboarding for metallurgy team (as required).
• Collaborate with subject matter experts, management, Mill Trainers, and operations personnel to support operator training programs, process control guidelines, and Safe Work Instructions (SWIs) for operational readiness.

• Provide visible technical leadership and maintain strong metallurgical oversight across mill areas.
• Troubleshoot daily metallurgical and process performance issues.
• Develop daily production review process to analyze trends and assess metallurgical and operational improvements.
• Encourage participation in Short Interval Control and production meetings by providing metallurgical insight, interpreting performance gaps, and recommending corrective actions.
• Coordinate with operations, maintenance, training, and other departments to support reliable mill performance and optimized recovery.
• Support shutdown planning, plant trials, sampling campaigns, and process improvement initiatives…