Knowledge Analyst - Underground Mining at McKinsey & Company

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• You will support our consultants and clients by collecting, summarizing, analyzing and synthetizing information that helps solve specific business problems in the basic materials industry.
• In this role, you will perform a wide range of analytics tasks on various basic materials industries and more specifically mining operations, developing perspectives that are relevant to clients. You will collaborate with our global Basic Materials Insights network to share and build knowledge, best practices and relevant new ideas. In project work and in exchanges with colleagues, you will deal with new intellectual challenges daily as well as build your industry and functional knowledge on an ongoing basis.
• The problems will often be of operational nature and you will use your knowledge, combined with McKinsey’s tools and frameworks, to solve these problems.
• When not directly supporting clients, you will be refining and developing our offerings and assisting in the growth of the basic materials solutions and practice.
• The versatility and nature of our work gives lots of opportunity for you to grow professionally and intellectually over time.
• There is flexibility to hire at the Knowledge Analyst or Senior Knowledge Analyst level, depending on your experience.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's degree in geology or mining operations
• 3+ years of work experience in underground mining operations
• Superior problem-solving and analytical skills
• Significant understanding of the industry dynamics of the mining sector
• Passion for analytics and interest in developing new approaches to mining data analysis and application to operational improvement