Consulting

Specialist – Mining, Mineral Processing

Job ID: 95920
  • Denver


Do you want to work on complex and pressing challenges—the kind that bring together curious, ambitious, and determined leaders who strive to become better every day? If this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right place.

Your Impact

In this role you will leverage your industry knowledge and expertise within mineral processing to solve some of the most pressing and complex issues at clients.  
In this role you will be staffed on client engagements and be responsible for identifying issues, forming hypotheses, designing and conducting analysis, synthesizing conclusions into recommendations and helping to implement change with our clients. 
Throughout an engagement, you will be involved in discussions and presentations with client team members and leadership. 
You will lead or contribute to knowledge development initiatives in order to expand our mining capabilities. 
You will develop and maintain a strong internal reputation and network with client teams, and will be “in the flow” of new external thinking to renew personal knowledge and expertise over time to remain at leading edge in the field.  

Your Growth

Your home base will be our Denver office as part of our Mining team within our global Metals and Mining practice. 
Our Metals and Mining practice focuses on accelerating sustainable and inclusive growth by leveraging artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to shape client’s strategy, boost productivity and drive innovation.

Your qualifications and skills

  • Undergraduate degree with excellent academic record required, ideally within mineral processing engineering, chemical engineering or similar related field; advanced degree in similar field a plus
  • 4+ years of relevant experience in the mining industry within mineral processing/extractive metallurgy
  • Significant understanding of APC (automated processing control) a plus
  • Experience in data analysis and interest in developing new approaches to data analysis and application to operational improvement in the field
  • Outstanding performance track record and career development 
  • Strong business and industry acumen  
  • Excellent problem solving skills 
  • Strong interpersonal and communication (oral and written) skills in English, additional fluency in Spanish a plus

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Job Skill Group - CSS Associate
Job Skill Code - PS - Specialist
Function - Operations
Industry - Metals & Mining
Post to LinkedIn - Yes
Posted to LinkedIn Date - Tue Aug 15 00:00:00 GMT 2023
LinkedIn Posting City - Denver
LinkedIn Posting State/Province - Colorado 
LinkedIn Posting Country - United States
LinkedIn Job Title - Specialist – Mining, Mineral Processing
LinkedIn Function - Consulting;Engineering
LinkedIn Industry - Mining & Metals
LinkedIn Seniority Level - Associate