SUMMARY:
Junior Metallurgical Engineer – Coal Processing (Middelburg)
Extraction Metallurgy | Coal Beneficiation | HighâPerformance Engineering Culture
If you’re a Metallurgical Engineer (Extraction) with 3–5 years’ coal processing plant experience, this is your chance to join a fastâpaced, innovative engineering company that’s redefining mineral processing. — this team thrives on efficiency, sustainability, and smart engineering.
They move quickly, think boldly, and constantly push for better ways of doing things. If you’re wired the same way, you’ll fit right in.
POSITION INFO:
The Role
As a Junior Metallurgical Engineer, you’re the technical backbone of the coal plant — monitoring performance, ensuring product quality, troubleshooting issues, and driving optimisation. You’ll gain handsâon exposure to beneficiation circuits and build a strong foundation for future senior roles.
What You’ll Work On
- Monitor key plant metrics: yield, ash %, CV, moisture, size distribution
- Optimise DMS, spirals, screens, crushers, and flotation
- Conduct sampling, floatâsink tests, proximate analysis
- Analyse trends and compile daily/weekly reports
- Troubleshoot density, separation, and equipment issues
- Ensure product meets customer specs and compliance standards
- Support operations, maintenance, shutdown planning, and SHEQ practices
What You Need- BSc/BEng Metallurgical Engineering (Extraction essential)
- 3–5 years’ coal processing plant experience
- Exposure to DMS, spirals, screening, crushing, flotation
- Strong analytical ability and data accuracy
- Proactive, curious, and comfortable in a highâperformance environment
Why JoinYou’ll influence realâtime plant decisions, improve recovery, and help deliver consistent, highâquality coal — all within a culture that rewards initiative, innovation, and technical excellence.
Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you do not hear back within 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.
