About the Role
Are you the metallurgist everyone calls when the plant is not performing and ready to lead how AI runs it? In this role, you will be responsible for the implementation, commissioning, and value delivery across all our Plant customer sites. You will be the metallurgical authority for crushing, grinding, flotation, leaching, thickening, and other circuits, ensuring our AI reflects the real behavior of each plant. This position also involves leading, coaching, and growing a team of Mining Technology Engineers across several sites, working closely with our AI engineers to automate site rollout and service work, and bringing valuable site feedback into our product roadmap. Additionally, you will support our account teams in winning more sites and products with existing customers.
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What You Will Do
- Own implementation, commissioning, and value delivery across all our Plant customer sites.
- Be the metallurgical authority for crushing, grinding, flotation, leaching, thickening, and other circuits, ensuring our AI accurately reflects how each plant behaves.
- Prove the value we deliver with sound, data-driven baselines that customers trust and use them to secure renewals.
- Lead, coach, and grow a team of Mining Technology Engineers across several sites.
- Collaborate with AI engineers to automate site rollout and service work.
- Incorporate site feedback into our product roadmap.
- Support our account teams in winning more sites and products with existing customers.
What You Will Bring
Must-haves
- Substantial hands-on experience as a metallurgist or process engineer at an operating mineral processing plant, with ownership of circuit performance.
- Proven improvements in recovery, throughput, reagent use, or stability, backed by mass balancing and metallurgical accounting.
- Experience taking a technology, process-control, or optimization solution from commissioning to everyday use.
- Experience leading or developing engineers and managing work across more than one site or project.
- Credibility to work with plant managers and general managers on value and renewals.
- Fluency in English and willingness to travel regularly to customer sites up to 50% of the time.
Nice-to-haves
- Fluency in Arabic (a strong advantage for a Saudi Arabia-based hire).
- Mining experience in Saudi Arabia or the wider GCC.
- Data skills (e.g., Python, plant historians, LIMS) and exposure to advanced process control, digital twins, or AI.
- Commercial experience in renewals, expansions, or pre-sales.
- Professional registration (e.g., CEng, IOM3, AusIMM, or the Saudi Council of Engineers).
What We Offer
- A competitive salary and benefits package benchmarked to your location.
- Remote-first, flexible working environment.
- Real ownership of a market in a fast-growing industrial AI company, with the chance to shape our presence in Saudi Arabia.
Location and Right to Work
This role is based in Saudi Arabia. You must have, or be able to obtain, the right to work in your location. Saudi nationals and expatriates are welcome to apply. Onboarding may include time at our UK headquarters.
Inclusion
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our teams. If you need any adjustments during the process, please let us know and we will assist you.
