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About the role

Are you passionate about exploring and evaluating mineral resources, ensuring adherence to safety and environmental standards, and managing drilling operations and geo-data? This is your chance to help grow your career.

Core Responsibilities

• Safety, Health, and Environmental Compliance
  • Adhere to all safety, health, and environmental practices and requirements.
  • Follow SHE policies and procedures, escalating unsafe practices or risks to the direct supervisor/manager.
  • Support good housekeeping practices on-site to ensure compliance.
  • Actively participate in VFLs, risk assessments, and close-out of safety actions.
• Performance and Delivery
  • Plan drill borehole positions, execute drilling, maintain a geological log, and capture geo-data, serving as an advisory authority.
  • Ensure compliance with standards, policies, and procedures, including core and final depth blocks management, survey and chip samples, and borehole area rehabilitation.
  • Ensure core and chip logging meets agreed standards and logs are accurately captured in the geological database.
  • Verify drill hole data for accuracy before it is made available to Geo-data.
  • Ensure proper sampling and numbering of drill holes per QA/QC protocols for chemical analyses.
  • Verify analytical data upon receipt to ensure data integrity and that geological descriptions match analytical results.
  • Validate data in the relevant database to ensure its integrity and availability for other sections.
  • Oversee safe record keeping of borehole information post-sign-off, monitoring authority.
  • Import information into relevant storage and modeling software, updating models to identify further exploration areas.
  • Ensure accuracy and integrity of geo-data through surveying, sampling, and interpretation.
  • Use updated geological models to identify further exploration opportunities, ensuring all interpretations are verified before specialist sign-off.
• Management and Coordination
  • Supervise drilling contractors to ensure compliance with exploration plans and contracts.
  • Coordinate and verify drilling information and samples received from contractors daily.
  • Review and verify drilling meters on monthly invoices, recommending payments.
  • Compile summaries of drilling metrics and deviations for monthly reports.
  • Allocate work, measure performance, train direct reports, and maintain discipline.
  • Optimize human resources to maximize section output, ensuring continuous performance improvement.
  • Manage section expenditure within the approved budget to ensure effective cost control and savings.
  • Maintain a safe and healthy work environment, ensuring compliance with statutory environmental requirements.

Minimum qualifications and Experience

• Minimum Requirements
  • Grade 12/N3 Technical
  • NQF6 National Diploma in Geology
  • SA Driver’s License
• Advantageous
  • B.Sc. in Geology (NQF7)
  • Relevant Advanced Certificate in Geology
  • SACNASP Membership

Experience

• 3-5 years of operational experience in Geology within an exploration environment.
• Supervisory experience is recommended.
• Understanding of processes, working culture, and pressures impacting exploration, projects, and mining operations.

Technical Skills

• Proficiency in geological software and tools
• Knowledge of drilling operations and geo-data management
• Experience with safety, environmental, and regulatory compliance in mining operations

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Disclaimer

At Sci Engineering, we will ensure that no job applicant receives less favourable treatment because of their gender, marital or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, colour, race, ethnic origin, religion, disability, or age; nor be disadvantaged by any other conditions or requirements which are irrelevant.