High opportunity occupation
About this job
Central control and process operators, mineral and metal processing:
- operate and monitor multi-function process control machinery and equipment to control the processing of mineral ores, metals or cement
- work in mineral ore and metal processing plants such as copper, lead and zinc refineries
- also work in uranium processing plants, steel mills, aluminum plants, precious metal refineries and cement processing plants
Common job titles
- alloy control / purity control
- bar mill finisher / billet mill
- blast furnace / crucible
- caster, central control
- charger, head
- chief flotation
- coke plant
- cold mill / hot mill
- console - cement manufacturing
- continuous casting
- control room
- controller, slurry
- furnace - vacuum / reverberatory
- ion exchange
- metal heater / melter / smelter / roaster
- open-flame furnace
- processor, nuclear fuel
- refinery - copper / electrolytic
- roaster - ore / molybdenum
- vacuum-degasser / steel-degasser
- zinc pressure leach
- alloy control / purity control
- bar mill finisher / billet mill
- blast furnace / crucible
- caster, central control
- charger, head
- chief flotation
- coke plant
- cold mill / hot mill
- console - cement manufacturing
- continuous casting
- control room
- controller, slurry
- furnace - vacuum / reverberatory
- ion exchange
- metal heater / melter / smelter / roaster
- open-flame furnace
- processor, nuclear fuel
- refinery - copper / electrolytic
- roaster - ore / molybdenum
- vacuum-degasser / steel-degasser
- zinc pressure leach
Earnings
Annual provincial median salary
$80,296
Source:
2020 Job Bank Wage data
Provincial hourly rate
Source: 2020 Job Bank Wage Report