Process Operator for Converter and Anode

Boliden Mineral ABVästerbottens länEURESpublished 06/10/2026
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We are looking for someone who is responsible, meticulous, and self-reliant. You should have good planning skills, take responsibility for your tasks, be quality-conscious, and have good collaborative abilities. In addition to the right theoretical background, a practical mindset and the ability to effectively prioritize among different tasks are required.

To be eligible for the position, you need: Process operator training or operations technician/machinist training, alternatively a high school education or equivalent with a technical/scientific/industrial focus.

  • Basic IT skills
  • Basic knowledge of English
  • A few years of relevant work experience
  • B-driver's license

Experience from the process industry, as well as experience in forklift or overhead crane operation, is meritorious. The Process Operator plans, controls, and monitors processes and equipment within their area of responsibility so that the best possible production results are achieved in terms of quantity, quality, and environment.

Work tasks include, among other things, contact within and with other departments, production reporting, performing rounds and scheduled inspections, initiating and in some cases performing maintenance efforts, as well as reporting deviations and facility deficiencies. Great importance is placed on protection and safety work.

In the work tasks for Converter and Anode, overhead crane operation is included, and in the Anode Foundry, forklift driving is also included.

Work is carried out in shift teams of different sizes, and specific tasks occur in the various operating departments. Shift work as well as daytime work occurs.

For the right person, we offer varied tasks in a different and exciting industry. Our way of working, which we call improvement groups, means that you are given the opportunity to influence working conditions and develop our way of working.

We assume that you share our basic values of enthusiasm, responsibility, and commitment. We strive for diversity among our employees with regard to gender, age, ethnicity, etc. Rönnskärsverken in Skelleftehamn is one of the world's most efficient smelters, extracting metals from raw materials from mines and various types of recycling materials. Above all, copper, gold, silver, lead, and zinc clinker are produced. Rönnskär currently has approximately 890 employees.

Converter and Anode is the central part of the copper production where we receive material from the smelting units and cold works. In the converters, the materials are refined in several steps, increasing the copper content from approx. 57% up to 98%. Then, the 98% copper content blister copper is transported to the Anode where the oxygen is reduced to a suitable level before it is cast into anodes in large copper molds.