Process Technician

Workplace Type: Onsite 

Your Impact

As a Process Technician at Boddington, you will play a key role in the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of our gold processing facilities. Reporting to the Processing Supervisor, you will support production, recovery, and plant reliability outcomes, while ensuring all activities are conducted in accordance with site procedures, statutory requirements, and agreed operating conditions.

This role is suited to experienced Process Technicians who can operate independently, contribute to troubleshooting activities, and support continuous improvement across the processing plant.

As Part of Our Team, You Will

• Operate, monitor, and maintain gold processing plant equipment across crushing, grinding, flotation, and recovery circuits.
• Proactively identify, troubleshoot, and respond to plant upsets and process variations in a collaborative team environment.
• Conduct routine inspections, sampling, and housekeeping to ensure safe, compliant, and reliable plant performance.
• Support the safe execution of isolations, permits, shutdowns, and start-up activities.
• Work closely with supervisors, control room operators, maintenance teams, and peers to achieve shared production and safety outcomes.
• Actively contribute knowledge, experience, and continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen plant performance and team capability.

Prerequisites for Success in This Role

• Minimum of 5 years’ operational experience as a Process Technician in a gold processing plant or similar metallurgical processing environment.
• Strong practical knowledge of wet plant operations, including crushing, grinding, flotation, CIP/CIL, and gold recovery circuits.
• Current manual C-class driver’s licence (HR licence advantageous but not essential).
• A demonstrated commitment to safety leadership, environmental compliance, and procedural discipline
• Ability to work a 7 days on / 7 days off rotating day and night shift roster.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team-based operational environment.

Your Work Environment

This role is based at Boddington Gold Mine, operating on a 7/7 rotating day and night shift roster. You will be part of a high-performing processing team within a complex gold operation that prioritises safety, teamwork, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

Why join Newmont 

At Newmont, people create the value in the metals we mine responsibly and are ambassadors in the communities where they live and work. As a team, we foster an environment in support of our people vision, where everyone belongs, thrives and is valued. We have built a diverse and inclusive workplace where our people can bring their differences to support delivering results together.

Boddington offers a unique opportunity to live in the South West, only 130 kms from the Perth CBD and approximately 100kms from the coast so there will be plenty of time to enjoy the lifestyle this area has to offer. One of the largest gold producers in Australia, you will join a diverse team and have the opportunity to advance your career with an innovative company dedicated to safety, environmental management, inclusion and diversity.

With good rosters and a unique opportunity to live locally and go home each day, we also provide DIDO with accommodation in our Village.

Join us and unearth your potential in a global company that is at the forefront of shaping the future of the mining industry. 

Applications close 14 April 2026

We understand no candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you!

Our business success comes from the accomplishments and well-being of our employees and contractors. Our goal is to build a workplace culture that allows every person to thrive, participate, grow, and proudly play an active role in achieving our strategy.

Newmont is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to recruiting, hiring, placing and promoting the best individual for each position without regard to personal characteristics such as gender, race, nationality, ethnicity, social and indigenous origin, religion or belief, disability, age, sexual orientation, etc.

We invite women and applicants with diverse backgrounds to apply, particularly First Nations persons of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island descent. Newmont acknowledges First Nations People and respects their enduring connection to Country from which their culture, spirituality, and identity flow
 

More About Newmont

• Website: http://www.newmont.com
• Lifecycle of a Mine: https://www.newmont.com/lifecycle-of-a-mine
• Blog: https://www.newmont.com/blog-stories/
• Annual sustainability report: https://www.newmont.com/sustainability/sustainability-reporting

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