Careers
PolyMet will create more than 400 full-time jobs with an estimated annual payroll of about $40 million. PolyMet will set and maintain high performance standards for its vast array of mining and business professionals.
Potential employees will be expected to have two- or four-year degrees in their fields of expertise, or equivalent, related experience. Among the positions available will be:
Two-year Degree Professionals:
Technical/Crafts: (70 positions)
- Mechanical/Maintenance
- Electrical/Instrumentation
- Lab and Quality Assurance technicians
- Surveyors
- Computer Aided Design (CAD) specialists
Mining and Mineral Technology (190 positions; two-year degree and/or experience)
- Mining Equipment technicians
- Shovel/loader
- Drilling/blasting
- Truck/mobile equipment
- Train
- Ore Beneficiation technicians
- Crushing
- Milling
- Flotation
- Mineral Extraction technicians
- Hydrometallurgy
- Solvent Extraction
- Electrowinning
- Lab/Quality Assurance
Business (17 positions)
- Accounting
- Information Technology
- Warehouse
- Inventory Control
- Product Handling
- Human Resources/Payroll/Benefits
- Administrative assistants
Four-year Degree Professionals: (100+ positions)
Business (13 positions)
- Finance and Accounting
- Environmental
- Purchasing
- Human Resources/Employee Development
- Information Technology
Engineering/Science (37 positions)
- Geologists
- Engineers (chemical, civil, electrical, environmental, health & safety, mechanical, metallurgical, mining)
Two- and/or Four-year Degree and/or experience (53 positions)
- Plant and Mine Maintenance, Planning and Operations
- Dispatchers/Control Room Operators
- Lab/Quality Assurance
- Warehouse Inventory