Job Description
Company Description
AFRY is a European leader in engineering, design, and advisory services, with a global reach. We accelerate the transition towards a sustainable society. We are 19,000 devoted experts in infrastructure, industry, energy and digitalization, creating sustainable solutions for generations to come.
Making Future
Job Description
The Global Division Industry provides engineering and consulting services across industrial sectors, with a focus on mining and metals, pulp and paper, life sciences, biorefining and chemicals, food, and automotive. With 8,000 experts in over 20 countries, the division delivers solutions worldwide and supports the global green industrial transformation. We offer technical consulting, engineering, and project management services.
AFRY provides end-to-end expertise for the mining and metals industry, from early exploration and feasibility studies to mine design, processing, smelting, refining, and recycling. AFRY’s offering includes a wide range of engineering, consulting, and project services, including feasibility studies, EPCM, project management, procurement, and implementation services, ensuring the safe, efficient, and timely execution of mining and metals projects. AFRY’s metallurgical expertise covers minerals processing, hydrometallurgical and pyrometallurgical processes, materials technology, and decarbonisation strategies.
Notable projects include various greenfield and brownfield mines and concentrator plants, ferroalloy smelters, green steel mills, non-ferrous production plants, and battery metals production plants globally.
Job Description
We are looking for a Mining Engineer Expert to strengthen our team serving a wide range of clients in the mining and metals industries.
In this role, you will act as a mining expert and/or project manager during the project development and execution phases of clients’ investment projects. Ideally, you would hold Qualified Person status under JORC, NI 43-101, PERC, or a similar reporting code, and be able to act as a QP in mining feasibility study projects.
Depending on your experience and skills profile, your tasks may include sales management, proposal development, project management, lead mining engineering tasks, and the development of working methods and client offerings. You will be fully supported by multi-skilled colleagues, and our international project base provides opportunities for further professional growth. We are committed to ensuring your well-being at work and providing a thorough induction into our Industry Division.
Qualifications
Ideally, the person we are looking for has:
- An M.Sc. degree or higher in a relevant field.
- A minimum of 7 years of hands-on experience in mining feasibility studies, mining engineering, conceptual and basic engineering, and project execution. Junior positions are also available.
- The ability to act as a leading expert in mining projects.
- Deep knowledge of the field and the ability to provide practical solutions for clients.
- The ability to develop life-of-mine schedules for open-pit and underground projects.
- Experience in open-pit and stope optimisation workflows
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- The ability to develop new solutions, projects, and approaches in a client-oriented manner.
- Fluent communication skills in English.
The following are considered advantages:
- Understanding of economically and technically based scoping, pre-feasibility, and feasibility studies in the mining industry under JORC, NI 43-101, PERC Code, or similar reporting standards.
- Qualified Person status, including membership in a professional organisation recognised by the international mining community as a reputable professional association. Under NI 43-101, qualifying foreign associations and the appropriate membership designations are set out in the companion policy to NI 43-101.
- Rock engineering know-how.
Additional Information
Why AFRY?
As a stable and growing company, we provide you with a variety of opportunities to develop yourself. At AFRY you will have an opportunity to deepen your knowledge with the support of experiences colleagues and get to work together with the top experts in dynamic and international project environment.
At AFRY we build sustainable future together and develop sustainable solutions that serve not only our clients but also society. The work at AFRY is versatile, interesting and challenging but at the same flexible, allowing you to take care of your work–life balance. We apply flexible working in a hybrid model where possible, taking into account project needs.
We strive to include all new employees to our work community from the first day at AFRY. We are brave, devoted team players, and we wish that you have the same mindset.
Would you like to read more about your future colleagues’ careers? Get to know them on our web page: https://afry.com/en/join-us/get-know-us
Benefits at AFRY
All AFRY employees are supported with lunch, exercise, culture, wellness and commuting benefit. AFRY employees are insured by private accident insurance when working remotely and in spare time. Employees have the possibility to receive help with taking care of a sick child at home. The team player spirit strengthens also in hobby clubs, in which employees spend time together. Depending on the office location there are crossfit classes, golf clubs and board game clubs.
Sustainability at AFRY
Sustainability and creating sustainable solutions are at the core of AFRY’s business strategy and all of our operations. By combining the latest technologies and the top expertise of our employees, we create sustainable business to our clients. Read more about sustainability at AFRY: https://afry.com/en/insights/sustainability
Interested?
You can ask for more detailed information from Head of Mining & Minerals Processing Ville-Matti Seppä, +358 40 667 1619 either on 15.6.2026 at 10.00-11.00 UTC+3 or on 22.6.2026 10.00-11.00 UTC+3 or [email protected]
Please send your application and CV with salary request by 31.7.2026. We will start interviews as applications arrive but latest in early August and will select suitable candidate when found.
At AFRY, we engineer change in everything we do. Change happens when brave ideas come together. When we collaborate, innovate technology, and embrace challenging points of view. That’s how we’re making future. We are actively looking for qualified candidates to join our inclusive and diverse teams across the globe. Join us in accelerating the transition towards a sustainable future.
