Director, Exploration

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Coeur Mining attracts and hires highly skilled individuals. By joining our team, you can look forward to:

• A stimulating values-based work environment
• A culture of collaboration and inclusion
• Inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• Career development opportunities
• A deeply rooted commitment to responsible mining, health and safety and community engagement
• A competitive total compensation program
• A comprehensive benefits package including a retirement savings plan

About Coeur Mining:

Coeur Mining is a growing, all-North American precious metals producer with seven operations: the Las Chispas silver-gold mine and Palmarejo gold-silver complex in Mexico, the Rochester silver gold mine in Nevada, the Kensington gold mine in Alaska, the Wharf gold mine in South Dakota, the Rainy River gold mine in Ontario, Canada, and the New Afton copper-gold mine in British Columbia, Canada.

In addition, Coeur owns the Silvertip silver-zinc-lead exploration project in British Columbia.

Coeur offers a flexible, hybrid work model and a culture built on safety, collaboration, and real opportunities to develop your career for those who want to grow alongside a company that is doing the same.

Position Overview

* This role can be remote USA or Canada

Reporting to the Senior Director of Exploration, this position will be remote with regular travel to sites and head office in Chicago. The Director, Exploration will oversee the Company’s greenfields and brownfields exploration programs in two of Coeur’s exploration sites in the US & Canada

Key Responsibilities

• Mentor, coach, and develop exploration teams through an inclusive leadership style that fosters technical rigor, geological curiosity, and a high-performing, team-oriented culture. Build capability across teams and ensure consistent leadership and performance standards across sites.
• Accountable for the successful delivery of greenfields and brownfields exploration programs across sites, ensuring programs are effectively designed, prioritized, and executed to advance orebody knowledge, generate high-quality targets, and deliver exploration value.
• Drive the design and continuous improvement of exploration strategies, including advanced modeling and conceptual targeting, ensuring teams integrate diverse datasets to generate and rank robust drill targets aligned with company priorities.
• Ensure exploration programs are executed in alignment with company objectives, standards, and timelines, maintaining strong oversight of program performance, budget discipline, and capital efficiency to maximize return on exploration investment.
• Establish and maintain high-quality geological models by ensuring teams effectively interpret and integrate drilling, geological, and geotechnical data, and apply sound mineralization theories to support resource growth and decision-making.
• Identify performance, data, or interpretation gaps across projects and drive timely corrective actions, ensuring continuous improvement in geological understanding, targeting effectiveness, and program execution.
• Ensure the consistent application of industry best practices across all exploration activities (including drilling, sampling, mapping, QAQC, and modeling), driving standardization, quality, and knowledge transfer across sites.
• Analyze exploration performance against targets and ensure insights are translated into actionable improvements, guiding teams to resolve technical challenges and maintain program momentum.
• Ensure compliance with all legal, regulatory, and company requirements, while reinforcing a strong culture of accountability, safety, and operational discipline across exploration activities.
• Drive a high-performing and aligned team culture by setting clear expectations for communication, collaboration, and accountability across exploration teams and with cross-functional partners, proactively resolving friction points to maintain a solutions-focused and performance-oriented environment.
• Act as a key interface between exploration and broader business stakeholders, including General…