Process Metallurgist

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Progessive International Full time

Qualifications/Requirements

  • Bachelor of Science in Engineering field such as Chemical, Metallurgical or Process Engineering are preferred, or Electrical, Electronic Engineering.
  • Formal qualification in Advanced Process Control or suitable post graduate qualification.
  • 3+ years of industrial experience in the Mining & Metallurgical industry, with advanced process control and automation products.
  • Basic software coding skills, e.g. Python, R, Matlab, etc.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and potential leadership and management skills.
  • Team player and effective communicator at all levels within an organization.
Ability and willingness to travel, domestically and internationally.

Essential Responsibilities

The primary function of the role is Advanced Process Control (APC) with extended support on control loop performance monitoring and process troubleshooting.

A reasonable portion of the workload will be related to remote multivariate process monitoring, as well as technical feasibility combined with business case assessments.

The Lead Project Engineer will also work with the Solution Consulting and technical teams located in other regions delivering solution engineering and software services.


  • Take project lead and delivery ownership for solution delivery and implementations
  • Suggests improvements in products, processes and procedures.
  • Specifies needs, communicates about project approach and presents outcomes of assessments and/or research done.
  • Work with a diverse set of clients in a region.
  • Work on the basis of predefined methodologies and frameworks, with latitude to deviate from those conditions and to improve and/or update where necessary.
  • Performing Control Loop tuning and optimization with selected loop tuning software.
  • Delivering and maintaining Advanced Process Control Solutions and software implementations.
  • Process performance optimization and associated consulting services.
  • Assist sales process with Solution Consulting and value assessments and writing assessment reports.
  • Support and/or execute projects using the broader Digital Mine suite of products.
  • Support sales process in performing site assessments and man hour estimations.
  • Provide field engineering support to ensure ongoing change management for solution implementation.
  • Be the primary onsite contact for the customer, potentially for prolonged implementation periods

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