Project Geologist
Available for exploratory interviews.
Ref: EP14100825
Company classification: Produce Commodities (mined, natural resources or grown, e.g. chemicals, gold, agriculture, energy (i.e. Eskom Generation)) Industry in: Mining Corporate Office Highest formal qualification and other: Masters Discipline: Geology Years of experience range: d. 6 to 10 years (b. 1 to 2 years management) Annual package range: South African Rand - ZAR Annual package range: 851 000 - 950 000, per annum Nationality: South African Home and other languages: Afrikaans, English, Spanish Gender: Male Ethnicity: Caucasian/White Candidate location: South Africa Location preference: I am specifically interested in opportunities in Africa.
Contribution Compass Profile: Coach
Activating: 22.88 Inspiring: 28.41 Sustaining: 23.25 Refining: 25.46
The Coach is one of the eight natural energy profiles identified by the online profiling tool Contribution Compass that Enshrine Placements have incorporated into their recruitment process to help improve employee engagement. Putting the right profiles together means deliberately structuring your team to function at its optimum.
In this video we address some questions to demonstrate how a Coach can leverage the most value for your team.
Online Interview Questionnaire
Primary purpose of current/most recent position:
To reduce the search space so that resources can be focused on the areas of interest that matter towards making a world-class discovery.
Core elements or functions that must operate effectively in order to achieve primary purpose:
1. A multi-disciplinary team that can acquire, process and serve high quality datasets in a collaborative format.
2. Input by subject matter experts to assimilate these datasets for rigorous scoring and ranking of areas of interest to reduce search space.
3. Uptake of sound generative concepts/exploration hypotheses by a bullish senior leadership team willing to spend money on "real" exploration activities and drill a few boreholes.
Description of self, along with greater purpose and passions:
Being a geologist fulfills my curiosity for wanting to know more about earth processes and geography combined with the privilege of being paid to be outdoors exploring in the field or present at an exploration site. I am a team player and make a real effort to get along with the people I work with. I hope that I leave people better off than I found them, whether it's giving them confidence or teaching them new skills as they aid me in delivering work. This being said, my natural state is one of deep care for people and how I make them feel.Balancing this out with a strong focus on delivering results under tight deadlines remains my goal.
Ideal business title:
Senior Generative Geologist
Key responsibilities and accountabilities of ideal position:
Responsibilities include generating and/or acquiring datasets for making informed decisions using exhaustive scoring templates.
Accountable for keeping teams focused on low exploration maturity and/or high residual potential work areas to ensure world-class discoveries are made
Skill area of competence:
Working at a high level of abstraction
Upskilling, empowering and leading smalls teams
General exploration field work
Career summary:
Iron Ore Exploration: 12 months
Iron Ore Production: 6 months
Porphyry Copper Exploration: 12 months
Sediment-hosted Copper: 5 years
Orthomagmatic Copper-dominated systems: 3 months
What do you absolutely love doing:
I love turning dusty old reports chock full of long forgotten data into usable datasets to drive my deep understanding of the geology of the area I'm working on. When this work involves a team that I'm leading I love watching them slowly transform into warriors churning out datasets of lasting value where they pick up skills along the way and also feel a huge sense of accomplishment.
Ideal company (culture and values):
I want to work for a company that actually makes world-class discoveries. This company should not be one where senior leadership constantly stalls teams from triggering work programs to test robust exploration hypotheses. This company should comprise mid-level management and senior leaders that can identify and truly support talented individuals who consistently deliver great results. This company should be collaborative but firm on making transparent data-driven discovery decisions that allow for rapid project turn-around because this ultimately leads to making discoveries.
If you are looking for a Project Geologist, then do get in touch.
Call the Head Office – Gauteng, SA. + 27 10 597 0862.
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