"I would like to encourage students to contact us within the industry to learn more."
Malin Suup is head of a group working within hydrometallurgy and water treatment at Boliden Mineral AB.
What do you think about the program Mineral Resource Engineering?
“We at Boliden (both at mines and smelters) are in great need of people with thorough competence within the field of minerals, metallurgy, chemistry etc. and the students at Mineral Resource Engineering certainly develop those skills. Since there is a constant strive for Boliden to make all our processes more sustainable it is really positive that the program is formed with the same type of focus.”
What is your best career advice for students on this program?
“Since I have been a student myself I know that it can be quite difficult to make up your mind on what you actually want to become when you “grow up”. To have a broad platform of basic courses within the field of engineering in combination with geoscience gives you possibilities to work within several fields which is really good.”
“As an advice for the future, I would like to encourage students to contact us within the industry to learn more. There are a lot of possibilities to, for example, get an internship position, do your master thesis, or possibly get a summer job at Boliden which enables you to learn more about the company and at the same time establish valuable contacts.”
What do you do at your job and what kind of company/organisation is it?
“Boliden is a mining and smelting company and we work with the whole production chain from exploration to making final metal products. I am part of the technical staff function within Boliden Mines, that has several departments and in total employs about 120 persons.”
“I am head of a group that are part of the Process technology department and in my group we work more specifically within the field of hydrometallurgy and water treatment. We support all our five mine areas within our field of expertise, and we also conduct research and development.”
“My work consists, besides leading and supporting the team, of developing new water treatment processes, looking into problems or challenges with existing processes and facilities as well as working long term with improvements and adaptions to be able to be as sustainable as possible and to live up to future standards regarding water management.”
“In the field of hydrometallurgy the work is quite much focused on research and development where we are developing hydrometallurgical processes to be able to recover metals from waste streams in our strive towards more circular processes. For that purpose we have built our own pilot scale process plant.”
“Within the group we are also working in business development projects regarding water treatment and process design.”
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