You at Imerys / British Lithium are trying to recruit:
I have duly submitted applications through the "Human Resources" process since mid February 2024 with no good result.
Having followed procedure; the reality was always that a "Human
Resources" function could no more recruit a Principal Metallurgist
than pigs will perform synchronised flying dances at the next Olympics.
The median probable background for "Principal Metallurgist" as handled
by a "Human Resources" function is car salesperson.
The "smooth progression model" is "reward without challenge";
trajectory to "expense without income".
The skills look like this:
Cornwall - engineer roles covering-letter
At a glance with pictures for each method : analysis<=>application.
Any equipment you have to make or modify; any lifting
operations; etc - you have strengthened your team by
diversifying your talents.
Aiming at extractive metallurgy: read
Barry Wills "Mineral Processing Technology"
.
Bringing my Doctoral level ability to acquire knowledge to bear on
this subject.
I will bring a fresh outlook, while respectful of accumulated
experience of those in-post. Construction site experience - good at
this...
I have used a Holman Silver 900 Airleg rock-drill, drilling 1.5m into hard granite in a few minutes.
Trivial but there - created solution to break-up granite boulders by using a "cordless" SDS drill and "feathers" - portable and self-sufficient. Illustrative of aptitude, application and determination.
Index to entire Mining, Minerals, Geology, etc. section of my website.
Would be interested in getting shotfirer's "ticket". Know bench-blasting and tunnel-blasting "tickets" are different - will sort-out which to go for. Networking has me knowing of the depot in St Austell offering an extensive range of materials.
My projects have been at the start of the learning curve, breaking new
ground, creating new knowledge and giving high returns.
Schematically represented here - returns vs time & effort :
Major projects where this was so:
High returns / new solutions is likely to be of interest to a commercial operation...
Good juncture to make this point: it became clear early-on in my
industrial career that I was seeing correlations and solutions which
many never would - what aptitudes they had was not this.
Harmonious acceptance is seen in the first case following.
There is every reason to believe that I would be a very productive contributor and team-member. A couple of similar-ish examples.
This was the sole major employer in the town, and many had relatives
and parents or sons/daughters also working there.
My surprise introduction to how things would be was in the lost-wax
foundry, where they had a notably "chunky" casting type which
developed a lot of shrinkage defects. I advanced a suggestion that
they "suck" heat out of the bottom of the casting by placing the
ceramic shells on a thick steel plate, while they "hold-in" the heat
at the top of the casting with something like mineral wool. Trying to
create progressive "feeding".
My surprise was a couple of minutes later when the assistant
furnaceperson forklift'ed in a large steel plate about 20mm thickness,
while the shell-dewaxing steam autoclave operator was busy with a roll
of mineral-wool and a pail of "thin" refractory cement.
The castings resulting had no observable flaws / defects.
A few days later I tentatively angled-in on how that happened. The
head furnaceperson explained - they are on a bonus for low scrap-rate.
What I said made sense, so they gave it a try...
The rest of the time was notably amicable with the shop-floor crew. Who did forewarn me that the middle-management always succeeded in expelling anyone with ability. Knowing this was inevitable, I had a lot of fun while the job lasted solving problems which were being deliberately perpetuated.
This US$2.7Billion bridge had its construction stalled in the steel construction phase.
Hundreds of persons on the project had the title of engineer. Yet the
problems could not be identified, let-alone solved.
I was recognised for being a metallurgist and welding engineer who
also worked as a Trade welder. Why a search of the World found me.
My scientific and technical skills brought this diagnosis: who was
working for the objective, and who was working against the objective.
The task was interesting, getting those working "for" the project into
one group aligned around a plan, while isolating those working against
the project objective.
The engineers and technicians I was working with were very experienced
and able in their fields, so it was rewarding being a member of that
team which emerged.
I would be happy to apply my accumulated knowledge and experience to Cornish mining/quarrying and minerals activities.
I can tell you - I enjoyed my week of teaching welding at Truro College to the first-year welding apprentices of West Cornwall. These youths with every teenage characteristic were very appreciative and will take those fundamentals forward in their careers. I have the right aptitudes.
I can be contacted directly via this Contact form by which you can pass your details and a message to me and I will respond, establishing a communication channel.
(R. Smith, 09Apr2024 to 11Apr2024)