Argentina/Chile - Lead Process Engineer - El Alto
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Job Description
Accountable for leading and integrating the process engineering and metallurgical work required to advance the El Alto Project through the Pre-Feasibility Study, subsequent study phases, project execution and operational readiness. The role is the project focal point for process design, metallurgical test work, GeoMet integration, flowsheet development, design criteria, mass and water balances, equipment selection, process risk management and technical interfaces with the EPCM, laboratories, consultants, operations and technology providers. A primary objective is to ensure the PFS is supported by representative, auditable and sufficiently mature metallurgical and process data, and that critical information requirements are built into drilling and sampling programs before the available drilling windows are lost.
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Responsibilities
- Provide a strong contribution to Barrick's safety culture and programs while encouraging and ensuring others do the same.




- Act as the lead process engineering authority within the El Alto project team, owning the technical quality of all processing deliverables through scoping, PFS, FS and execution planning.
- Own and maintain the process basis of design, Process Design Criteria, process flowsheets, mass and water balances, equipment list and major process design assumptions.
- Lead the formal metallurgical, process, mineralogical and GeoMet gap assessment against PFS requirements and maintain a data-gap register showing required information, owner, due date and study impact.
- Define the information and sample requirements to be obtained from the current drilling campaign, working with Geology, GeoMet, Mine Planning and Drilling so metallurgical requirements are built into drilling plans before scope is finalised.
- Develop and own the integrated metallurgical test work programme, including master composite and variability strategies, QA/QC and

📌 Argentina/Chile - Lead Process Engineer - El Alto
🏢 Barrick Gold
📍 Argentina