Overview:
Artemis Gold is a well-financed, growth-oriented gold development company with strong financials aimed at creating shareholder value through the identification, acquisition, and development of gold properties in mining friendly jurisdictions. The Company's current focus is the Blackwater Mine in central British Columbia approximately 160km southwest of Prince George and 450km northeast of Vancouver. The first gold and silver pour at Blackwater was achieved in 2025 and commercial production was declared on May 1, 2025. Artemis Gold trades on TSX-V under the symbol ARTG. For more information visit www.artemisgoldinc.com.
The Senior Mill Projects Engineer is responsible for developing and delivering mill improvement and sustaining capital projects from initial concept through engineering, construction, commissioning, and operational handover.
The role will directly manage assigned projects, with primary responsibility for more complex, higher-risk, or operationally critical work. The position will also provide technical direction, project oversight, and day-to-day support to the Mill Projects Engineer. Both positions will work on the same general project portfolio, with work assigned based on project complexity, risk, workload, and experience.
The Senior Mill Projects Engineer will work closely with Mill Operations, Metallurgy, Maintenance, Reliability, E&I, Supply Chain, Major Projects, and external engineering and construction groups. The primary objective is to ensure projects are safe, technically sound, maintainable, and properly integrated into the operating plant. Projects must deliver the intended improvement in safety, throughput, recovery, reliability, operating cost, or environmental performance without creating unacceptable risk to production.
Location: Blackwater Mine Site
Schedule: Two (2) Weeks On - Two (2) Weeks Off Rotation
Responsibilities:
- Maintain a strong field presence and ensure all assigned work complies with company requirements and applicable health, safety, environmental, and regulatory standards.
- Provide technical direction, work priorities, project oversight, and day-to-day support to the Mill Projects Engineer.
- Review the progress of assigned projects and ensure emerging technical, commercial, schedule, and production risks are identified and addressed early.
- Lead the development of project concepts and evaluate technical options, constructability, maintainability, operating risk, cost, schedule, and expected benefits.
- Prepare and review business cases, capital requests, cost estimates, execution plans, and supporting technical documentation for proposed projects.
- Develop and review scopes of work, design criteria, equipment specifications, work breakdown structures, schedules, budgets, and tender packages.
- Coordinate process, mechanical, piping, civil, structural, electrical, instrumentation, and control-system requirements across project disciplines.
- Serve as the primary mill representative for major capital and expansion projects, ensuring operating, maintenance, metallurgical, commissioning, and tie-in requirements are identified early and incorporated into the design.
- Lead the review of engineering deliverables, including process flow diagrams, P&IDs, layouts, equipment specifications, control narratives, cause-and-effect matrices, design calculations, vendor drawings, and construction packages.
- Lead or participate in design reviews, constructability reviews, risk assessments, HAZOPs, operability and maintainability reviews, and commissioning readiness assessments.
- Ensure designs consider safe access, equipment isolation, lifting requirements, maintainability, critical spares, process performance, control-system requirements, and future plant needs.
- Ensure the Management of Change process is completed for modifications to plant equipment, process conditions, control systems, operating procedures, or original plant design.
- Identify project interfaces and brownfield risks, including shutdown requirements, tie-ins, access limitations, isolation requirements, lifting plans, temporary services, and potential impacts on plant production.
- Coordinate project activities with the mill operating plan, planned shutdowns, maintenance schedules, production priorities, and other site projects.
- Facilitate site visits, bid walks, technical clarifications, and tender evaluations. Work with Supply Chain to evaluate and select suitable contractors, consultants, and equipment suppliers.
- Manage consultants, contractors, and vendors to ensure work is completed safely and in accordance with the approved scope, design, quality requirements, budget, and schedule.
- Review contractor proposals, technical deviations, scope changes, claims, and change orders. Approve matters within delegated authority and provide recommendations to the Manager - Processing for material changes.
- Maintain project risk registers and actively manage technical, safety, environmental, commercial, schedule, commissioning, and production risks throughout the project lifecycle.
- Monitor project commitments, forecasts, actual costs, progress, change orders, contingency use, and schedule performance. Identify emerging variances early and develop practical recovery plans.
- Review project work completed by the Mill Projects Engineer and provide guidance where additional technical review, risk assessment, or management support is required.
- Provide regular project reporting to the Manager - Processing covering safety, scope, cost, schedule, risks, decisions required, and forecast completion.
- Coordinate quality assurance and quality control activities, including inspections, testing, deficiency management, and verification that equipment and construction meet design requirements.
- Lead the development of commissioning and operational readiness plans with Operations, Metallurgy, Maintenance, Reliability, and E&I.
- Coordinate pre-commissioning, commissioning, performance testing, ramp-up, and correction of project deficiencies. Confirm that project performance is measured against approved design and business-case objectives.
- Ensure operating procedures, maintenance strategies, critical spares, bills of materials, training, drawings, equipment records, and vendor documentation are complete before final handover.
- Confirm all project changes are captured in as-built drawings, P&IDs, equipment registers, maintenance systems, control documentation, operating procedures, and other plant records.
- Complete project closeout, including financial reconciliation, outstanding deficiencies, lessons learned, and post-implementation review of expected operational benefits.
- Support the Manager - Processing in the development, prioritization, budgeting, and management of the mill sustaining capital and improvement project portfolio.
- Provide senior technical support for plant troubleshooting and improvement initiatives where project engineering, multidisciplinary coordination, or additional technical judgment is required.
- Coach and support the development of the Mill Projects Engineer and promote consistent project-management and engineering practices.
- Perform other related duties as assigned by the Manager – Processing
- May be required to maintain a clean-shaven appearance (i.e. no facial hair) to ensure the safe and effective use of required personal protective equipment (PPE) associated with assigned duties.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, process, chemical, metallurgical, electrical, civil, or another relevant engineering discipline.
- Registration, or eligibility for registration, as a Professional Engineer in British Columbia is strongly preferred.
- Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in mining, mineral processing, heavy industry, industrial construction, or project delivery.
- Practical experience with operating mineral-processing plants is strongly preferred, particularly in crushing, grinding, leaching, CIL/CIP, elution, tailings, water, reagents, plant services, or process control.
- Gold-processing experience is an asset.
- Demonstrated experience delivering complex brownfield plant modifications from concept through engineering, construction, commissioning, ramp-up, and handover.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary projects and providing technical direction to engineers, contractors, consultants, and construction teams.
- Experience supervising, mentoring, or providing work direction to engineering and technical personnel.
- Strong working knowledge of project controls, including estimating, budgeting, scheduling, forecasting, risk management, procurement, contract management, and change control.
- Experience planning project tie-ins and construction activities around operating constraints, planned shutdowns, and production requirements.
- Strong understanding of commissioning, operational readiness, equipment handover, performance testing, and plant ramp-up.
- Ability to assess technical options and provide clear recommendations based on safety, operating risk, production impact, constructability, lifecycle cost, schedule, and expected benefits.
- Ability to read, interpret, and review PFDs, P&IDs, general arrangements, equipment drawings, fabrication drawings, electrical drawings, control documentation, engineering calculations, specifications, and vendor manuals.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present technical and commercial information clearly to operating teams, contractors, engineers, site leadership, and management.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office. Experience with scheduling, cost-control, document-control, and project-management software is required.
- Experience with AutoCAD, Navisworks, SolidWorks, or similar design and model-review software is an asset.
- PMP certification or formal project-management training is an asset.
- Valid driver’s licence.
Preferred Skills
Strong commitment to safe work and environmental protection.- Practical understanding of how engineering and construction decisions affect plant operation, maintenance, reliability, production, and operating cost.
- Strong leadership and technical judgment, with the ability to provide clear direction and hold project teams accountable.
- Able to manage several projects and competing priorities while maintaining control of scope, cost, schedule, quality, and risk.
- Comfortable working in the field and following work through engineering, construction, commissioning, ramp-up, and final handover.
- Able to challenge incomplete designs, weak assumptions, unsupported benefits, and uncontrolled scope changes constructively.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, particularly where project work may affect plant safety or production.
- Able to work independently while keeping the Manager - Processing and affected stakeholders informed.
- Communicates project issues early and provides clear recommendations and recovery plans.
Benefits
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Paid Time Off
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RRSP Matching
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Extended Health, Dental & Vision Care
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Disability Insurance
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Life Insurance
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Employee Assistance Program
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Programs
We are an equal opportunity employer committed to equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, religion, national origin, status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, or any other basis protected by law. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples. Members of Indigenous communities should clearly identify their status on their resume.
