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Overview Artemis Gold is a well-financed, growth-oriented gold development company with strong financials aimed at creating shareholder value through the identification, acquisition, and development of gold properties in mining friendly jurisdictions. The Company's current focus is the Blackwater Mine in central British Columbia approximately 160km southwest of Prince George and 450km northeast of Vancouver. The first gold and silver pour at Blackwater was achieved in 2025 and commercial production was declared on May 1, 2025. Artemis Gold trades on TSX-V under the symbol ARTG. For more information visit www.artemisgoldinc.com. The Senior Mill Projects Engineer is responsible for developing and delivering mill improvement and sustaining capital projects from initial concept through engineering, construction, commissioning, and operational handover. The role will directly manage assigned projects, with primary responsibility for more complex, higher-risk, or operationally critical work. The position will also provide technical direction, project oversight, and day-to-day support to the Mill Projects Engineer. Both positions will work on the same general project portfolio, with work assigned based on project complexity, risk, workload, and experience. The Senior Mill Projects Engineer will work closely with Mill Operations, Metallurgy, Maintenance, Reliability, E&I, Supply Chain, Major Projects, and external engineering and construction groups. The primary objective is to ensure projects are safe, technically sound, maintainable, and properly integrated into the operating plant. Projects must deliver the intended improvement in safety, throughput, recovery, reliability, operating cost, or environmental performance without creating unacceptable risk to production. Location: Blackwater Mine Site Schedule: Two (2) Weeks On - Two (2) Weeks Off Rotation Responsibilities • Maintain a strong field presence and ensure all assigned work complies with company requirements and applicable health, safety, environmental, and regulatory standards.• Provide technical direction, work priorities, project oversight, and day-to-day support to the Mill Projects Engineer.• Review the progress of assigned projects and ensure emerging technical, commercial, schedule, and production risks are identified and addressed early.• Lead the development of project concepts and evaluate technical options, constructability, maintainability, operating risk, cost, schedule, and expected benefits.• Prepare and review business cases, capital requests, cost estimates, execution plans, and supporting technical documentation for proposed projects.• Develop and review scopes of work, design criteria, equipment specifications, work breakdown structures, schedules, budgets, and tender packages.• Coordinate process, mechanical, piping, civil, structural, electrical, instrumentation, and control-system requirements across project disciplines.• Serve as the primary mill representative for major capital and expansion projects, ensuring operating, maintenance, metallurgical, commissioning, and tie-in requirements are identified early and incorporated into the design.• Lead the review of engineering deliverables, including process flow diagrams, P&IDs, layouts, equipment specifications, control narratives, cause-and-effect matrices, design calculations, vendor drawings, and construction packages.• Lead or participate in design reviews, constructability reviews, risk assessments, HAZOPs, operability and maintainability reviews, and commissioning readiness assessments.• Ensure designs consider safe access, equipment isolation, lifting requirements, maintainability, critical spares, process performance, control-system requirements, and future plant needs.• Ensure the Management of Change process is completed for modifications to plant equipment, process conditions, control systems, operating procedures, or original plant design.• Identify project interfaces and brownfield risks, including shutdown requirements, tie-ins, access limitations, isolation requirements, lifting plans, temporary services, and potential impacts on plant production.• Coordinate project activities with the mill operating plan, planned shutdowns, maintenance schedules, production priorities, and other site projects.• Facilitate site visits, bid walks, technical clarifications, and tender evaluations. Work with Supply Chain to evaluate and select suitable contractors, consultants, and equipment suppliers.• Manage consultants, contractors, and vendors to ensure work is completed safely and in accordance with the approved scope, design, quality requirements, budget, and schedule.• Review contractor proposals, technical deviations, scope changes, claims, and change orders. Approve matters within delegated authority and provide recommendations to the Manager - Processing for material changes.• Maintain project risk registers and actively manage technical, safety, environmental, commercial, schedule, commissioning, and production risks throughout the project lifecycle.• Monitor project commitments, forecasts, actual costs, progress, change orders, contingency use, and schedule performance. Identify emerging variances early and develop practical recovery plans.• Review project work completed by the Mill Projects Engineer and provide guidance where additional technical review, risk assessment, or management support is required.• Provide regular project reporting to the Manager - Processing covering safety, scope, cost, schedule, risks, decisions required, and forecast completion.• Coordinate quality assurance and quality control activities, including inspections, testing, deficiency management, and verification that equipment and construction meet design requirements.• Lead the development of commissioning and operational readiness plans with Operations, Metallurgy, Maintenance, Reliability, and E&I.• Coordinate pre-commissioning, commissioning, performance testing, ramp-up, and