Exploration Geologist at Anglo American

Job Description:

As our Exploration Geologistof your responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Adhere to all safety, health and environmental practices and requirements.
• SHE policies and procedures:
• Escalate all unsafe practices or risks to the direct supervisor/manager.
• Support good housekeeping in the department and on-site to ensure compliance.
• Active participation in VFLs, Risk Assessments and close-out of Safet Actions.
• Performance and Delivery
• Plan drill borehole positions, execute drilling, maintain a geological log, and capture geo-data – an advisory authority.
• Ensure compliance with standards, policies, and procedures, e.g., core and final depth blocks management, survey and chips samples, and rehabilitation of borehole areas—advisory authority.
• Ensure that core and chip logging is done to the agreed standard and that logs are captured onto the relevant geological database.
• Verify drill hole data before it is made available to Geo-data to ensure its accuracy upon a drill hole's completion.
• Ensure drill holes are sampled and numbered per the QA/QC protocol for chemical analyses.
• Verify analytical data once received to ensure data integrity.
• Verify that geological descriptions correspond with analytical results.
• Validate data in the relevant database to ensure data integrity and availability for utilisation by other sections.
• Ensure safe record keeping of borehole information after sign-off – monitoring authority.
• Ensure the importation of information into relevant storage and modelling software and update the model to identify areas of further exploration – advisory authority.
• Ensure accuracy and integrity of geo-data through surveying, sampling, and interpretation – monitoring/advisory authority.
• Use an updated geological model to identify areas of further exploration (position and depth of boreholes)
• Ensure all interpretations are verified before the Specialist Exploration Geologist is signed off to be approved and sent to Geo-data for wireframing.
• Supervise drilling contractors to ensure compliance with exploration plan and contract – management authority.
• Coordinate the drilling information received from the contractor of the previous day’s work, which is verified against the samples daily.
• Verify the drilling metres on the monthly invoice received from the contractor, which is to be recommended for payment.
• Compile a summary including drilling metres with justified deviations to be used for reporting within the monthly report.
• Allocate work, measure performance, train direct reports and maintain discipline – management/service authority.
• Optimise human resources in a manner that the section as a whole delivers maximum output.
• Ensure work ethics is of such a nature that workers continuously strive towards improving their performance
• Manage the section's expenditure within the approved budget to ensure effective cost control and savings.
• Maintain a safe and healthy work environment where stakeholders can deliver their outputs within a controlled risk environment – advisory authority.
• Keep environmental impact within statutory requirements to ensure compliance with statutory requirements is met.

This role is in Geology, Exploration and Geo-metallurgy  department on a band 6.10 level reporting to the Section Manager Exploration and Geo-metallurgy , Geology Department.

Qualifications:

• Grade 12/N3 Technical
• NQF6 National Diploma in Geology
• B.Sc. in Geology (NQF7) – Advantageous
• Relevant Advanced Certificate in Geology
• Sacnasp membership - Advantageous
• SA Drivers Licence

Technical

• 3-5 years of operational experience in Geology in an Exploration environment.
• Supervisory exposure is recommended.
• Understand the processes, working culture and pressures that impact exploration, projects, and mining operations.
• Guides maximum productivity, efficiency, and quality by effectively incorporating geoscientific information along the life of project and mine cycles.
• Recognise Geoscience skill sets and techniques as critical contributors to project and operational success.
• Proactively manages the relationship with the cross-functional teams.
• Understand how and where geoscientific information is used to drive decision-making.