Subject Matter Expert - Brine Mining and Mineral Technology (12-month FTC)
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About the Role
The employer is seeking a hands-on expert in brine management technology and mineral recovery for a 12-month contract. The role involves supporting technology design, pilot validation, scale-up planning, and commercial readiness.
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Responsibilities
- Support technology design, pilot planning, validation, scale up, and commercial readiness
- Review process configuration, equipment choices, operating parameters, mass balance, and process flow
- Identify technical and operational risks; help diagnose equipment failure, underperformance, or poor recovery/purity results
- Assess realistic recovery rates, purity levels, process limitations, reagent needs, energy needs, and operating constraints
- Define what needs to be proven during pilot work to support scale up and deployment
- Support discussions with technical partners, equipment suppliers, clients, and potential offtakers
- Provide input on product specifications, offtaker requirements, regional market dynamics, and route to market considerations for recovered minerals
Requirements
- Hands on experience in brine management, brine treatment, mineral recovery, ZLD, desalination, produced water, or related processes
- Direct pilot or commercial deployment experience
- Practical understanding of equipment performance, scaling, fouling, corrosion, impurity management
- Experience with technologies such as membrane separation, selective precipitation, crystallization, ion exchange, evaporation
- Ability to review process flows, operating data, lab/pilot results, equipment performance, and scale up assumptions
- Commercial awareness of product quality requirements, offtaker constraints, pricing, regional market dynamics
- GCC or MENA experience strongly preferred
Full Job Posting
About The Role
- We are looking for a hands on expert in brine management technology and mineral recovery, with direct experience in pilot or commercial deployment of brine treatment, mineral recovery, ZLD, desalination, produced water, or industrial water treatment technologies.
- The role will focus on supporting technology design, pilot validation, scale up planning, and commercial readiness.
- This is a 12 month contract position.
Key Responsibilities
- Support technology design, pilot planning, validation, scale up, and commercial readiness.
- Review process configuration, equipment choices, operating parameters, mass balance, and process flow.
- Identify technical and operational risks. Help diagnose equipment failure, underperformance, or poor recovery/purity results.
- Assess realistic recovery rates, purity levels, process limitations, reagent needs, energy needs, and operating constraints.
- Define what needs to be proven during pilot work to support scale up and deployment
- Support discussions with technical partners, equipment suppliers, clients, and potential offtakers.
- Provide input on product specifications, offtaker requirements, regional market dynamics, and route to market considerations for recovered minerals.
Minimum Qualifications
- Hands on experience in brine management, brine treatment, mineral recovery, ZLD, desalination, produced water, oil & gas brines, bitterns, salt lake brines, or related water/mineral recovery processes.
- Direct pilot or commercial deployment experience.
- Practical understanding of equipment performance, scaling, fouling, corrosion, impurity management, process instability, downtime, and maintenance.
- Experience with technologies such as membrane separation, selective precipitation, crystallization, ion exchange, evaporation, or related processes.
- Ability to review process flows, operating data, lab/pilot results, equipment performance, and scale up assumptions.
- Commercial awareness of product quality requirements, offtaker constraints, pricing, regional market dynamics, and route to market challenges for recovered minerals.
Preferred Qualifications
- GCC or MENA experience is strongly preferred, but not mandatory.
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