Job title : Principal Exploration
Job Location : Gauteng, Centurion
Deadline : January 05, 2025
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Position Overview:
As the Principal Exploration, you will: Lead and Strategize: Guide functional leaders in the execution of Exxaro's Exploration Strategy within developed frameworks, ensuring technical, legal, and safety compliance. Technical Expert: Act as the functional exploration authority, conducting reviews, evaluations, and providing recommendations for asset opportunities aligned with strategic goals. Execute Scientifically: Employ advanced technologies, skills, and methodologies to deliver credible and precise exploration data. Evaluate and Optimize: Perform techno-economic evaluations of exploration assets and drive data-driven decisions that shape the organization's growth. Collaborate and Innovate: Represent Exxaro in strategic technical relationships, applying expertise in diverse geoscience disciplines, including geophysics, geochemistry, geology, and more. Team Leadership: Direct integrated exploration teams to ensure seamless execution of drilling, sampling, and survey campaigns.
Minimum Requirements QUALIFICATIONS: BSc (Hons) Geology (Essential/Minimum or) BSc (Hons) Mining Engineering (Essential/Minimum or) BSc (Hons) Metallurgy (Essential/Minimum or) B Degree (Hons) (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum) Management Development Programme (Essential/Minimum) Master's Degree (Relevant) (Recommended/Desirable)
EXPERIENCE: 8-10 years Proven track record of leadership in exploration management roles in the mining / resource industry. Demonstrable track record of leading techno-economic evaluations, project management, due diligence exercises and business integration activities. Subject matter expert in exploration theory, geoscientific approaches and techniques, and project execution, preferably across diverse jurisdictions. Manage / Guide multi-functional technical teams. (Essential/Minimum) (Management)
REQUIREMENTS: Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro) Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro) Geological Society of SA (GSSA) (Recommended/Desirable) SA Council for Natural Scientific Prof (Recommended/Desirable) Engineering Council of SA (PrEng) (Recommended/Desirable) SA Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (Recommended/Desirable)
Duties & Responsibilities
Ideal Candidate Profile (Includes but not limited to): Ability to: Be accountable for guiding functional leads in the execution of Exxaro's Exploration strategy. Execute exploration campaigns within developed frameworks aligned with set procedures and technical, legal and safety requirements. Assist the Manager Exploration the technical scanning and evaluation of global mineral asset opportunities. Act as functional exploration expert leading teams during technical reviews and evaluations to establish technical, commercial, and strategic fit. Take active lead and advisory role in guiding exploration activities to best industry practices, ensuring compliance with applicable reporting codes. Execute exploration activities scientifically through the application of the appropriate skills, technology, and methodologies to ensure accumulation of accurate credible information. Conduct techno-economic evaluations of exploration mineral assets. Act as Exxaro technical lead in strategic relationships guiding towards best technical applications in geophysical, geochemical, geological, structural, estimation, hydrogeology, geo-metallurgical applications. Direct integrated exploration team towards effective execution of drilling, sampling and survey campaigns.
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