Sergio Avendaño
Position
Business Manager and Senior Project ManagerSergio Avendaño is the Business Manager at Knight Piésold Chile. He is a civil engineer with 27 years of experience in the mining and metallurgical industry, including infrastructure, tailings storage facility, and plant areas. He has experience working on copper, gold, polymetallic, nickel, and non-metallic ore projects in different processing methods such as electrowinning, concentrator, and smelters. He has extensive expertise in engineering and project development.
He has worked on developing several projects in Chile, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, and Argentina, including scoping, pre-feasibility, and feasibility studies; EPCM projects; and support for environmental studies and permits.