Chief Processing Engineer

**Main Purpose**:Ensure best standards are applied on operating facilities, ensure that standards are adhered to by consultants on projects. Responsible for signing off yearly plant budgets. Support Technical Team with DD’s
**Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities**:
**Knowledge Skills**
- Relevant university degree in mineral processing, chemical engineering or mechanical engineering
- Minimum 15 years of operational experience from mineral processing, from more than one process plant
- Multi commodity experience with particular focus on Zn and Pb
- Solid experience from leading teams
- Experienced from plant projects such as expansions and/or process improvement
- Must be fluent in English, Spanish is a big plus

**Key Responsilbities**
- Ensure best standards are applied on operating facilities
- Conduct periodic audits of each operation to asses standards, and advise on corrective actions
- Be up to date on new technology improvements in the market to enable sharing with sites
- Coordinate improvement project efforts
- Conduct scoping studies and tests
- Propose new improvement project to site
- Follow up on installation of these efforts on a regular basis, if needed, coordinate installation of these initiatives
- Coordinate company wide process functional committee
- Ensure that standards are adhered to by consultants on projects
- Ensure Test programmes are of correct scope/standard/quality
- Ensure Design Criteria is of correct standard
- Involved in equipment sizing and supplier
- Responsible for signing off yearly plant budgets
- Operational costs(short and long term)
- Ensure operating cost estimates aligns with improvement efforts
- Capital Cost (short and long term)
- Ensure capital program aligns with improvement efforts
- Support Technical Team with DD’s

**Key Relationships and Department Overview**:
Trafigura Mining Group manages mining operations, develops projects, conducts technical audits of existing and potential projects and provides advisory and support services to the rest of the company.

About Us
Founded in 1993, Trafigura is one of the largest physical commodities trading groups in the world. At the heart of global supply, Trafigura connects the world with the vital resources it needs. Through our Oil & Petroleum Products, Metals and Minerals, and Power and Renewables divisions, we deploy infrastructure, skills and a global network to move commodities from where they are plentiful to where they are needed most, forming strong relationships that make supply chains more efficient, secure and sustainable.

Trafigura also owns and operates a number of industrial assets including a majority share of global multi-metals producer Nyrstar and fuel storage and distribution company Puma Energy; and joint ventures Impala Terminals, a port and logistics provider, and Nala Renewables, a power and renewable energy investment and development platform. With over 1,000 shareholders, Trafigura is owned by its employees and employs over 13,000 people working in 48 countries.