Smelter Operation Readiness - Process Engineer

Jobs Purpose

Designing, analysing, optimizing, and maintaining metallurgical processes in designated area (Acid Plant & ETP/Electrorefinery/Hot Metal Operations/PMR/Material Handling & Slag Concentrator/Technical Services) of smelting & refining processes. This role ensures efficiency, safety, environmental compliance, and cost-effectiveness in smelting & refining operations.

Jobs Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Develop and improve metallurgical processes for smelting and refining operations, including material handling.
• Integrate advanced technologies for automation and monitoring.
• Implement safety protocols to protect personnel from operational hazards.
• Maintain compliance with environmental regulations related to emissions, slag, and waste management.
• Track and adjust process parameters (temperature, pressure, composition) to support optimal performance.
• Respond promptly to alarms and abnormal conditions, ensuring process stability and safety.
• Oversee equipment performance across designated areas (furnaces, kilns, converters, electrolysis systems).
• Monitor product quality to meet industry and customer specifications. (i.e Copper/Gold 99,99%)
• Prepare reports on process performance, material usage, and environmental impact.
• Coordinate with operations, maintenance, automation, laboratory, and environmental teams.
• Identify inefficiencies, troubleshoot issues, and conduct root cause analysis.
• Lead and support long-term optimization projects to reduce energy consumption and minimize waste.

Jobs Challenges

• Achieve production quantity target and product quality within specifications.
• Achieve desired target recovery in each process.
• Manage complexity of the precious metal refinery process.
• Do plant data analysis for daily troubleshoot and future improvement.
• Maintain reagent consumption and deliverable to ensure smooth production.
• Ability to provide accurate response in a timely manner to production issues i.e. recipe, process duration, etc.
• High variability in the data being analyzed and processed.

Requirement Education & Experience

Education:

Master's or bachelor's degree in metallurgical engineering, chemical engineering, or any related processing fields.

Experience:

Five (5) or Seven (7) years of experience in Chemical Plants, Metal Refining, or Electrolysis Processes with Smelting & Refining manufacturing industry or having experiences in hydrometallurgical plant (leaching, solvent extraction, ion exchange, resin, etc).

Knowledge, Skills & Characters

**Knowledge **

• Good understanding on hydrometallurgy or other similiar processes.
• Understand process instrument, sequence, interlock, process parameters, chemical reagent, MSDS, hazardous chemical, process philosophy, control philosophy, and sampling philosophy.
• Having License of Pengawas Operasional Pratama (POP).

Skills

• Operating Metallurgical Software (Metsin, Factsage, etc).
• Analytical skill.
• Communication skill.
• Interpersonal and Human Relation skills.

Characters

• Concern for Safety and Environment
• Cultural Sensitivity
• Time Management
• Integrity; Able to be disciplined in following company policies and procedures.
• Persistence to achieve excellence.

Key Areas Decision-making Responsibility

• Stop process sequence or stream due to unsafe or emergency condition.
• Analyse and recommend process parameter based on assay result, production result and safety point of view.