Lead Consultant Metallurgist

Our Minerals and Metals team at Beca prides itself on being Best in Class at partnering with our suite of clients located across Australia, New Zealand and within the Asia Pacific region. With a wide service offering range, including sustaining capital, growth projects, process debottlenecking and plant augmentation, asset management, shutdown management and process and business advisory, we pride ourselves on providing technical solutions that are tailored to our client needs.

The opportunity

We are seeking a Lead Consultant Metallurgist to join our Minerals and Metals team, to lead our extractive metallurgy service offering, supported by our team of junior to intermediate process engineers. This role will lead our technical metallurgical offering within this segment and will also work in partnership with our client relationship managers as part of our sales zipper to demonstrate market capability and secure new projects.

This role can be located in either our Melbourne or Brisbane offices.

About you

With a process/metallurgical background, you will have prior experience in process debottlenecking, plant modifications, flowsheet development, and the ability to lead front end process development of studies into implementation. You will have a proven track record of influencing, navigating, and achieving outcomes within complex organisations. The selected candidate must have prior experience working in a consulting capacity, and leading a leveraged service offering using junior engineers and designers. Prior experience working with Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc and/or Nickel will be highly valued, as will any site or operational experience.

What We Offer:

1. Flexibility & Wellbeing: We recognise that achieving a work-life balance is unique to everyone. Enjoy flexible working options to manage your personal and family priorities, along with dedicated leave for wellbeing and community engagement.
2. Belonging & Ownership: Join a diverse and inclusive team where collaboration and creativity thrive, and you can bring your whole self to work. You may also have the chance to take advantage of our unique shareholder opportunities, sharing in our collective success.
3. Parental Leave: Take time for what matters most with up to 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave, inclusive of all genders.
4. Career Growth & Development: Your growth is our priority Benefit from continuous learning and professional development through our company training programmes and support for professional accreditation, including pathways to Chartership with Engineers Australia. Work alongside industry leaders and gain hands-on experience to unlock your career potential.

Beca prides itself on supporting a diverse and inclusive culture – open to inputs from creative people of all genders, ethnicity, identity, thought and experiences.

Who is Beca?

Beca is one of the Asia-Pacific region's largest employee-owned professional services consultancies. Our team of over 4000 professionals is diverse enough to bring a wide range of perspectives and expertise to every client and challenge, creating resourceful, smart solutions from our collective experience and insights.

'Creative people together transforming our world' is our vision. It reflects our culture, our aspirations and our purpose – to make everyday better. Our four values – partnership, tenacity, enjoyment and care – sit at the heart of everything we do, reflecting how we work every day with each other and our clients.

At Beca we make everyday better for our clients, our people and our community and your involvement makes it possible. Our size and agility mean you're not just on the fringes; you're making a visible difference, partnering to develop and deliver solutions from the ground up.

As a people-focused business, we understand that work-life balance means a lot of different things to different people and that it's not always easy juggling work with everything else life throws at us. This is why we are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for all opportunities in the Beca team.

Ready to make the move? / Apply now

If you want to make every day better, apply online today If you have any questions, you can find out more about our people and projects by visiting www.beca.com