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Metallurgist resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what metallurgists actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most metallurgists should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Metallurgist with experience across mineral processing, hydrometallurgy and pyrometallurgy, focused on recovery, product quality and safe plant performance. Skilled in laboratory analysis, process modelling and plant trials, with a track record of turning data into practical operating improvements. Comfortable on site and in the lab, and used to working with production, geology and maintenance teams to solve metallurgical problems.
Key skills
- Process improvement
- Laboratory analysis
- Data analysis
- Operations management
- METSIM
- JKSimMet
- HSC Chemistry
- LIMS
- Power BI
- Safety and compliance awareness
- Problem solving
- Attention to detail
Experience: example bullet points
- Ran laboratory testwork on ore and concentrate samples, including flotation and leach tests, to characterise processing behaviour and support circuit design.
- Optimised a grinding and flotation circuit by adjusting reagent dosing and residence times, lifting recovery and cutting reagent use across the shift.
- Monitored plant performance using LIMS and Power BI dashboards, identifying a recurring variance in concentrate grade and working with operators to bring it back within specification.
- Investigated a metal quality failure at a smelter, traced the cause to feed variability and recommended a blending strategy that reduced off-spec batches from three per week to one.
- Prepared technical reports and feasibility study inputs for a brownfield expansion, covering mass balance, equipment sizing and metallurgical recovery assumptions.
- Supported daily production meetings with metallurgical data, helping the team prioritise plant trials and maintenance windows.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering (Metallurgical or Chemical) or Bachelor of Science (Metallurgy) with honours, often followed by a postgraduate qualification in mineral processing or extractive metallurgy. Some metallurgists also complete a PhD or a Master of Engineering Science.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- AusIMM
- RPEQ
- JORC Code
- METSIM
- JKSimMet
- HSC Chemistry
- LIMS
- Power BI
- mineral processing
- hydrometallurgy
- pyrometallurgy
- flotation
- comminution
- smelting
- refining
- recycling
- WHS
- ISO 17025
- Australian Standards
- feasibility study
- mass balance
- plant trial
- ore characterisation
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.