Plant Manager

Join an industry leader and make a positive change in the sustainable use of the world’s natural resources. Together, we will transform the business and drive the industry toward a greener future.

At Metso, you will be supported by our inclusive culture and a network of colleagues from around the world. With us, you will embark on a personal growth journey and are encouraged to realize your potential. This is your invitation to rise above the possible.

Job posting end date : 10 / 13 / 2025

Metso Middle East is looking for Plant Manager oversees the complete gold processing Plant from ROM crushing and screening, grinding and classification, gravity concentration, flotation, CIL, carbon regeneration, elution, electrowinning, and final smelting. The role ensures safe and efficient operations, maximizes recovery and throughput, reduces reagent consumption, and drives continuous improvement. Site is remote, however comes with attractive roster.

Location : Middle East

Key Responsibilities

Operations & Metallurgy

• Lead plant operations from crusher to smelter, ensuring stable performance and recovery optimization.
• Optimize site performance and collaborate with mining to align feed blend, grind size, and process parameters with ore characteristics.
• Direct decisions on throughput, recovery, reagent use, and carbon management.
• Maximize plant uptime and throughput by reducing downtime and maintain production continuity.
• Oversee metallurgical projects, process control, and debottlenecking initiatives to improve recovery and cost efficiency.
• Working closely with the mining team, the Plant Manager proactively adjusts plant parameters to respond to ore variability, optimizes flotation and downstream circuits.
• Guide the metallurgical and analytical labs on analysis routines required, setting KPIs and advising on new technologies, trainings, and SOPs with the Lab Superintendent

Safety & Compliance

Leadership & People

Technical & Laboratory Oversight

Financial & Optimization

Qualifications

Core Skills

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Metso is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workforce culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran or status as a qualified individual with a disability.

Metso is a frontrunner in sustainable technologies, end-to-end solutions and services for the aggregates, minerals processing and metals refining industries globally. We improve our customers’ energy and water efficiency, increase their productivity, and reduce environmental risks with our product and service expertise. We are the partner for positive change.

Metso is headquartered in Espoo, Finland. At the end of 2024 Metso had close to 17,000 employees in around 50 countries, and sales in 2024 were about EUR 4.9 billion. Metso is listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki.