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3 of 8

Track

Management

Family rungs priced

M1 · M2 · M3 · M4 · M5 · M6

11-0000

industrial_energy_operations

Coordinates

3 / 4 spaces

pay@2 · 2026-07

What this role is

Manages the operations of an ore processing plant, including crushing, grinding, and metal extraction activities. At the Senior Manager (M3) level, the role owns multiple teams or a sub-function, multi-team execution and resourcing trade-offs, and drives sub-function outcomes. Manages managers and/or several teams.

What this level does

Manage all areas of the processing plant across shifts, taking ownership of safe and efficient operation from ore handling through milling, leaching and gold/metal recovery.
Drive production targets while maintaining full compliance with safety, environmental and regulatory obligations, evaluating trends across circuits to address recurring issues.
Own the plant's operating budget for the department, managing consumables (e.g., grinding media, reagents), staffing levels and cost per tonne.
Lead a team of supervisors and operators — defining roles, mentoring staff and driving continuous improvement in circuit performance.
Partner with metallurgy and maintenance planning to sequence work and set operating strategy that balances throughput, recovery and equipment health.

Knowledge applied: Applies full plant operating and metallurgical knowledge to run the whole plant to production and cost targets across shifts.
Complexity & problem solving: Evaluates diverse issues and trends across circuits, diagnosing recurring process and reliability problems.
Collaboration & interaction: Leads functional operating teams and supervisors; partners with metallurgy and maintenance planning.
Typical experience: 5–7+ years managing operating professionals and a plant department budget.

Skills at this level

Safety and Environmental Compliance: — Ensures mineral processing operations meet environmental regulations and safety standards, maintaining risk assessments, defect reporting and regulatory standing across plant circuits.
Process Plant Operation: — Operates and monitors all areas of the processing plant — crushing, screening, milling, thickening, leaching, CIL and gold/metal recovery — observing meters, gauges and control panels to keep circuits running safely and efficiently.
Process Optimization: — Makes changes in plant processes to optimize throughput, recovery and efficiency, tuning operating parameters against production targets and cost.
Machine Setup and Operation: — Sets up and operates stationary plant and machinery that grind, crush, cut, saw and slice rocks, minerals and stones according to job specifications.
Malfunction Detection and Maintenance Support: — Detects equipment malfunctions from meter and control-panel readings and supports plant and machinery maintenance and repair, reporting plant defects for resolution.
Shift Production Recording: — Records information about processing completed during shifts, including quantities, types and dimensions of materials produced, for handover and reporting.
Team Leadership and Mentoring: — Manages a mineral processing team, defining roles and responsibilities, mentoring and motivating operators and metallurgists, and driving continuous improvement.
Technical Problem Solving: — Solves complex material and process-related problems in the plant, providing technical expertise and coaching to metallurgists, technicians and refiners.
Plant Budget and Cost Management: — Owns operating budgets and consumables (grinding media, reagents) for the plant, managing cost per tonne and prioritizing improvement and capital-related spend.
Geometallurgy and Resource Integration: — Integrates orebody and feed characteristics into plant operation and equipment selection through familiarity with geometallurgy and resource modelling.
Regulated Qualifications: — Achieves and maintains appropriate regulated operating qualifications, such as the MPQC Level 2 Diploma in Mineral Products Mobile Plant Operations, and supports team certification.
Continuous Improvement Program Leadership: — Undertakes and sponsors projects and multi-year programs to improve production plant performance, managing consultants and cross-functional stakeholders.

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Pay across the ladder

Mining Processing Plant — median with , by . Real canon data.

National-base pricing — this family's function differential is pending review, so dollar levels are not function-adjusted (level-over-level % is unaffected).

Pay figures are modeled estimates from our market equation — level-differentiated, with honest-wide bands. They refresh as new leveling evidence lands; treat per-role dollars as directional.

Demand — is the field growing, or just turning over?

SOC 11-0000 · national

Employment growth 2019–2024, BLS OEWSobserved

+26.2%Industrial Production Managers · United States

185,790 → 234,380 jobs

17,100 openings / year, split into:

replacement / exits 16,640

Growth — new jobs (3%)Exits — backfill (97%)

3% of hiring here is genuine expansion; the rest backfills people who move on.

Projected growth 2024–34 expanding: +1.9%
Growth share of hiring: 3%
Exit / retention pressure high: 97%
Openings / year: 17,100

Two quantities, kept apart: observed = employment growth differenced from two BLS OEWS vintages (what already happened); projected = BLS Employment Projections 2024–34, openings decomposed into growth + exits (growth derived from projected employment change). Neither is a pay figure.

Where this role sits — growth vs. pay

level M3 held

Demand axis is projected growth (not raw openings — that just measures churn). A curated, de-duplicated set of recognizable occupations held at this level; this role is highlighted.

Where it pays — by metro

OEWS metro median

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$207k

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$186k

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$172k

Boulder, CO$169k

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$169k

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$162k

Lexington Park, MD$158k

Trenton-Princeton, NJ$157k

Pay only — metro-level demand isn't in public data (it needs job postings). National median $124k; the demand-cube initiative will add growth-by-metro.

What changes across the ladder

Level-distinction canon isn't available for the adjacent levels of this profile yet.

Level differentiators

What separates M3 (M3 — Senior Manager) from the levels around it — this level only. Every word is real canon for this profile.

Scope: Multiple teams or a sub-function
Autonomy: Sets goals within functional strategy
Complexity: Multi-team execution and resourcing trade-offs
Impact: Sub-function outcomes
Decision rights: Owns goals, budget input, and people decisions across teams
Leadership: Manages managers and/or several teams

Full level-by-level matrix (side by side across the ladder) lives on the Ladder drill-down — not here.

Promotion

The next rung from M3 is M4.

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People also watch

Nearest coordinate neighbors — same , same level. Each row's (confident / review / no match) comes from its — computed, not curated.

Profile	Key	Median	Δ structural
Chief Processing Officer	jf_mining_processing_plant::E3	$352,063†	confident0.06
Metallurgical Process Engineer	jf_mining_processing_plant::P3	$82,468†	confident0.06
Senior Processing Plant Operator	jf_mining_processing_plant::S3	$49,566†	confident0.06
Senior Supervisor, Mineral Processing Plant	jf_mining_processing_plant::M2	$110,455†	confident0.06

†National-base pricing — this family's function differential is pending review, so the dollar level is not function-adjusted.

Capability cluster

O*NET 11-3051

Core to this role. Click any element with an ⓘ for its O*NET definition. A job-specific capability model (SkillFrame) will sharpen this and add worked examples.

The Job Swatch

M3

jf_mining_processing_plant::M3

Processing Plant Manager

Mining Processing Plant

The swatch is JobFrame's core primitive: a hueset deterministically by the role's superfunction, the profileKey as its color code, the level ladder, and a content fingerprint. Two swatches that look alike are alike.

Because every role carries computable coordinates, similarity, leveling, and pricing become measurable instead of arguable— the whole point of "Pantone for jobs."

Structural

structural@1

Where it sits— position in the work taxonomy + level (weighted Gower, level > function > focus).

Track: M
Superfunction: industrial_energy_operations
Function: plant_operations
Family: mining_processing_plant
Universal level: 3 / 8

Content

content@2

What it's about— a fingerprint over the role's tasks & capabilities.

Two roles can sit far apart structurally yet be close in content — that gap is itself a signal.

3-state matching

How any two swatches compare — a real distance in coordinate space, resolved to a calibrated verdict (never a fake "94% match").

Nuclear Power Plant · M3review0.17

Plant Maintenance (Energy/Mining) · M3review0.17

Plant Operations (Energy/Mining) · M3review0.17

Power Plant Management · M3review0.17

Refinery · M3review0.17

Renewables Plant · M3review0.17

Editions — frozen & versioned

structural@1live

Released 2026-06-17

content@2live

Released 2026-07-28

pay@2live

Released 2026-07-02

semantic@1live

Released 2026-07-02

Coordinates belong to a frozen, versioned edition — a coordinate computed today still means the same thing next quarter. Re-fitting issues a new edition, so comparisons are never silently redefined.

How to read this profile

Every number here is traceable — to a named source, a stated method, and an as-of date — and each value is labeled by how we know it: observed from data, computed by a model, projected forward, or governed canon. Nothing is a black box, and nothing is invented to fill a gap.

Where every number comes from

What	Source & method	Edition	State
Median pay + range	JobFrame pay equation (function base × family multiplier × level × focus differential)	pay@2	computed
Pay across the ladder	Same equation applied at each universal level	pay@2	computed
Demand — growth & openings	BLS Employment Projections; openings decomposed into growth + exits	EP 2024–34	projected
Pay by metro	BLS OEWS metropolitan medians	OEWS 2024	observed
Level distinctions	JobFrame universal-level canon (scope · autonomy · complexity · impact · decision rights · leadership)	canon	canon
Capability cluster	O*NET Knowledge / Skills / Abilities	O*NET 11-3051	computed
Coordinates	JobFrame coordinate system — structural (weighted Gower) + content fingerprint	structural@1 · content@2 · pay@2 · semantic@1	computed
Related roles	Nearest neighbors in the structural coordinate space	structural@1	computed

The principles behind the numbers

Ranges, not false precision

Pay is P10 · median · P90, never a single misleading number.

Three honest states, never a fake %

Role matches resolve to confident / review / no-match — a calibrated verdict, not a made-up percentage.

Provenance on every value

Each number carries whether it's observed, computed, projected, or canon — so you always know how much to lean on it.

Gaps shown as gaps

When a figure isn't available at the grain you need, we say so — we don't fabricate a number to fill the cell.

Frozen, versioned editions

Pay and coordinate editions are pinned, so a comparison you make today still means the same thing next quarter.

Privacy by min-N

Any aggregate over people is suppressed below a minimum count, so no individual is identifiable.

Freshness

As of2026-07-30Editioncanon-v2@2.1.0-completeSourcecanon-v2 cell + salary-benchmark (model)