SVP, Mineral Processing Operations
industrial_energy_operations › Mining Processing Plant · E2 — E2 — Senior Director (Executive) · Executive
Executive who leads all ore processing, crushing, grinding, and metal extraction operations across the organization's mineral processing plants.
Median pay · United States · annual
$322,728 USD
▲ +90.4% vs E1 on this ladder
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What this role is
Executive who leads all ore processing, crushing, grinding, and metal extraction operations across the organization's mineral processing plants. At the Senior Director (Executive) (E2) level, the role owns multiple functions or a major area, multi-function strategy and risk, and drives major-area outcomes. Leads function leaders.
What this level does
- Leads multiple processing operations or a significant business unit — several plants and their supporting engineering functions — through VPs and plant heads, integrating throughput, recovery and cost strategy across sites.
- Makes cross-functional decisions with high consequence to unit viability, balancing feed-grade decline, expansion capital and processing cost against commodity-price cycles.
- Directs the study pipeline (scoping and pre-feasibility) for plant expansions and new circuits, deciding which processing projects advance to feasibility.
- Negotiates critical matters — major EPC contracts, offtake volumes and chemical/reagent supply — with top counterpart leaders and secures environmental and operating approvals across jurisdictions.
- Sets the multi-plant safety and environmental-compliance standard and holds site VPs accountable to a common framework across differing regulatory regimes.
- Knowledge applied
- Applies cross-functional processing knowledge across multiple plants — operations, engineering, and the study pipeline — to abstract issues where feed decline, capital timing and commodity cycles interact.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Addresses high-consequence, cross-site problems whose outcome can affect unit viability; decides which expansion or new-circuit studies advance from scoping/pre-feasibility, trading capital against recovery and cost.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Negotiates critical EPC, offtake and reagent-supply matters with top counterpart leaders and secures multi-jurisdiction approvals; leads multiple functions/divisions through VPs and plant heads (E1–E2).
- Typical experience
- 15+ years including strategic leadership of processing functions or units; demonstrated multi-site operating and capital-project ownership.
Skills at this level
- Mineral Processing Plant Operations
- — Directs the running of crushing, grinding, flotation and carbon-in-pulp (CIP) circuits so that valuable minerals are separated from waste at target recovery and throughput, and translates circuit performance into whole-plant strategy.
- Plant Performance Reporting Systems
- — Establishes and governs the systems that report plant performance, safety, environmental compliance and production metrics, and holds the organization accountable for acting on the data to improve operations.
- Environmental Compliance and Permitting
- — Owns the plant's emissions, chemical-handling and permit obligations for mineral extraction, and sets the enterprise posture toward regulators and communities on processing environmental risk including tailings.
- Processing Safety Leadership
- — Sets and enforces the safety discipline of the process plant — PPE, defect reporting, risk assessment and lone/team-working practice — as an executive accountability whose failure carries serious business consequence.
- Front-End Study and Feasibility Management
- — Governs early-stage processing projects, deciding which scoping and pre-feasibility studies advance and approving the design criteria and mass/energy balances that define a plant that does not yet exist.
- Capital Allocation for Processing Assets
- — Sets operating and capital plans for processing plants and expansions, sanctioning debottlenecking and new-circuit investment against recovery, cost and commodity-cycle economics.
- Process Control and Automation Strategy
- — Directs the control philosophy for processing plants — PLC, SCADA and HMI systems and industrial field networks — deciding where automation and digital plant performance investment protects recovery and cost position.
- Commissioning and Execution Oversight
- — Provides executive oversight and problem-solving across process-plant systems through the execution and commissioning phases of major projects, resolving field issues that threaten start-up and ramp-up.
- Industry Standard-Setting and External Representation
- — Represents the enterprise in shaping mineral-processing industry regulations and standards and participates in external strategy forums on behalf of the company.
- Concentrate Offtake and Feed Alignment
- — Aligns processing plant output specifications and feed characteristics with concentrate offtakers, geologists and mine engineers, and negotiates offtake and reagent-supply arrangements that affect plant economics.
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