{"id":1160822,"url":"https://alion.io/job/artemis-gold-inc-mill-projects-engineer","title":"Mill Projects Engineer","company":{"id":2670645,"name":"Artemis Gold Inc.","domain":"artemisgoldinc.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/artemis-gold-inc","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"iCIMS","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Columbia, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":86000,"max_usd":163000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":2148},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AutoCAD","optional":false},{"name":"Microsoft Office","optional":false},{"name":"SolidWorks","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T23:45:35Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T02:45:50Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Overview\nArtemis 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.\nThe 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.\nThe role will manage assigned small- and medium-sized projects and act as the mill’s technical liaison for larger capital and expansion projects. The position will work closely with Mill Operations, Metallurgy, Maintenance, Reliability, E&I, Supply Chain, Major Projects, and external engineering and construction groups.\nThe 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.\nLocation: Blackwater Mine Site\nSchedule: Two (2) Weeks On - Two (2) Weeks Off Rotation\nResponsibilities\nMaintain a strong field presence and ensure all assigned work complies with company requirements and applicable health, safety, environmental, and regulatory standards.\nDevelop project concepts and evaluate technical options, constructability, maintainability, operating risk, cost, schedule, and expected benefits.\nPrepare business cases, capital requests, cost estimates, execution plans, and supporting technical documentation for proposed projects.\nDevelop clear scopes of work, design criteria, equipment specifications, work breakdown structures, schedules, budgets, and tender packages.\nCoordinate process, mechanical, piping, civil, structural, electrical, instrumentation, and control-system requirements across project disciplines.\nServe as the 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.\nReview engineering deliverables, including process flow diagrams, P&IDs, layouts, equipment specifications, control narratives, cause-and-effect matrices, design calculations, vendor drawings, and construction packages.\nParticipate in design reviews, constructability reviews, risk assessments, HAZOPs, operability and maintainability reviews, and commissioning readiness assessments.\nManage the Management of Change process for modifications to plant equipment, process conditions, control systems, operating procedures, or original plant design.\nIdentify project interfaces and brownfield risks, including shutdown requirements, tie-ins, access limitations, isolation requirements, lifting plans, temporary services, and potential impacts on plant production.\nCoordinate project activities with the mill operating plan, planned shutdowns, maintenance schedules, and production priorities.\nFacilitate site visits, bid walks, technical clarifications, and tender evaluations. Work with Supply Chain to select suitable contractors, consultants, and equipment suppliers.\nManage consultants, contractors, and vendors to ensure work is completed safely and in accordance with the approved scope, design, quality requirements, budget, and schedule.\nMaintain project risk registers and actively manage technical, safety, environmental, commercial, schedule, commissioning, and production risks throughout the project lifecycle.\nMonitor project commitments, forecasts, actual costs, progress, change orders, and schedule performance. Identify emerging variances early and develop practical recovery plans.\nProvide regular project reporting covering safety, scope, cost, schedule, risks, decisions required, and forecast completion.\nCoordinate quality assurance and quality control activities, including inspections, testing, deficiency management, and verification that equipment and construction meet design requirements.\nDevelop commissioning and operational readiness plans with Operations, Metallurgy, Maintenance, Reliability, and E&I.\nCoordinate pre-commissioning, commissioning, performance testing, and ramp-up activities. Confirm that project performance is measured against approved design and business-case objectives.\nEnsure operating procedures, maintenance strategies, critical spares, bills of materials, training, drawings, equipment records, and vendor documentation are complete before final handover.\nConfirm all project changes are captured in as-built drawings, P&IDs, equipment registers, maintenance systems, control documentation, and other plant records.\nComplete project closeout, including financial reconciliation, outstanding deficiencies, lessons learned, and post-implementation review of the expected operational benefits.\nSupport development, prioritization, and management of the mill sustaining capital and improvement project portfolio.\nProvide technical support for plant troubleshooting and improvement initiatives where project engineering or cross-discipline coordination is required.\nMay 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.\nPerform other related duties as assigned by the Senior Mill Projects Engineer\nQualifications\nBachelor’s degree in mechanical, process, chemical, metallurgical, electrical, civil, or another relevant engineering discipline.\nRegistration, or eligibility for registration, as a Professional Engineer in British Columbia is preferred.\nMinimum five years of relevant experience in mining, mineral processing, heavy industry, industrial construction, or project delivery.\nPractical experience with operating mineral-processing plants is strongly preferred, particularly in crushing, grinding, leaching, CIL, elution, tailings, water, reagents, or plant services.\nDemonstrated experience delivering brownfield plant modifications from concept through construction, commissioning, and handover.\nExperience coordinating contractors, consultants, vendors, construction trades, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.\nWorking knowledge of project controls, including estimating, budgeting, scheduling, forecasting, risk management, procurement, and change control.\nExperience planning project tie-ins and construction work around operating constraints and scheduled plant shutdowns.\nUnderstanding of commissioning, operational readiness, equipment handover, and performance testing.\nAbility to assess technical options and make practical recommendations based on safety, operating risk, production impact, lifecycle cost, and expected benefits.\nAbility to read, interpret, and review PFDs, P&IDs, general arrangements, equipment drawings, fabrication drawings, electrical drawings, control documentation, specifications, and vendor manuals.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present technical and commercial information clearly to operations teams, contractors, engineers, and management.\nStrong working knowledge of Microsoft Office. Experience with scheduling, cost-control, document-control, and project-management software is required.\nExperience with AutoCAD, Navisworks, SolidWorks, or similar design and model-review software is an asset.\nPMP certification or formal project-management training is an asset.\nValid driver’s licence.\nPreferred Skills\nStrong commitment to safe work and environmental protection.\nPractical understanding of how engineering and construction decisions affect plant operation, maintenance, reliability, and production.\nAble to manage several priorities while maintaining control of scope, cost, schedule, quality, and risk.\nComfortable working in the field and following work through engineering, construction, commissioning, and final handover.\nAble to challenge incomplete designs, weak assumptions, and uncontrolled scope changes constructively.\nStrong problem-solving and decision-making skills.\nAble to work independently while keeping affected stakeholders informed.\nAccountable for commitments and able to follow issues through to closure.\nBenefits\nPaid Time Off\nRRSP Matching\nExtended Health, Dental & Vision Care\nDisability Insurance\nLife Insurance\nEmployee Assistance Program\nCognitive Behavioural Therapy Programs \nWe 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. 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