Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, November 06 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
This position reports to the Senior Production Geologist.
Core Purpose of the Position
Production Geologist is responsible for geological data acquisition through diamond drilling and production stoping.

Key Performance Areas/Indicators (KPA/Is):
• Conduct rig checks for safety, adherence to safe working standards. Frequent PTO’s are a requirement.
• Ensure production daily reports are updated.
• Plan and formulate all geological production holes and issue layouts.
• Attend daily meetings with the Projects team to discuss upcoming diamond
drilling sites and any other challenges to drilling.
• Generate geological drilling schedules and communicate the schedules to mine planning on a weekly, monthly and or annual basis.
• Monitoring all geological production drilling activities-hanging wall diamond drilling contractor on collar surveys.
• Supervise all geological drilling activities and effectively communicate with all drillers (Lubambe and Contractors).
• A plotted summary of holes is required at the end of any sequence of drilling in a diamond drill bay.
• Geological logging, sampling, and despatch to analytical lab of all diamond drilled core.
• Generate, validate and issue stop wireframes to planning.
• Attend weekly production meeting to address issues delaying diamond drilling and or highlight risks to business plan.
• Give guidance on areas ready for stoping in terms of available stope wireframes.
• Implement and conduct QA/QC on all resulting geological samples.

Academic Qualifications and Experience
• Bachelor of Science Degree in Mineral Science (Geology) or equivalent.
• Member of Geoscience professional body.
• Two to four years’ experience in a Production or similar role in underground or open cast mining.
• Practical experience in diamond and or RC drilling.
• Practical experience in use of application software such as Datamine, Vulcan and or Surpac. Geological modelling in leapfrog will be added advantage.
• Practical experience in use of Excel & other related packages to manipulate data.

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months:

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
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• Applicants who meet the above requirements are invited to send their Curriculum Vitae in MS word format . The closing date for receipt of applications is Tuesday 12th November 2024.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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