Fourmile - Drill Services Lead

Drill Services Lead – NGM Exploration

We are looking for a Drill Services Lead to provide leadership, technical authority, and strategic direction for Drilling Services across NGM Exploration to increase production and/or reduce costs at drilling operations. The successful candidate will work in a collaborative, diverse, and dynamic mining company committed to a safe work environment.

• Identifying, assessing and proposing/recommending technical solutions for drilling programs to be carried out in the Region, driving consistent application of standards, proactive risk management, and continuous improvement in Drilling performance.
• Provides oversight regional priorities and services execution and promote and participate in testing new technologies (tools, Equipment, and drilling fluids), while ensuring alignment with corporate frameworks and local regulatory requirements to protect Company’s LTO across NA Region
• Assist Project Managers and Contract administrators with Contractor pre-qualification and certification processes.
• Strong communication with Health and Safety Managers.
• Run pre-start up safety inspections of drilling and support equipment.
• Training sessions
• Proposing new exploration programs to the Explorations Managers, based on the construction of robust exploration models.
• Executing and overseeing in the field the development of exploration programs, ensuring and requiring the application of good practices in the capturing and management of geological data;
• Overseeing with a strong technical focus the implementation of works and programs in compliance with the budget approved.
• Contributing and collaborating with the development of exploration models and geological criteria to generate exploration targets at local, district and regional scale by the application of innovative concepts and other cutting‑edge exploration tools.
• Regularly reviewing the technical progress of exploration projects, collaborating with the Explorations Managers in the preparation and critical review of work programs presented by senior and project geologists.
• Preparing high quality technical written reports on exploration progress.
• Participating in the annual explorations budget preparation process being responsible for compliance thereof and for the financial management of the projects overseen by him in order to execute them in the Budget.
• Promote a strong culture of responsible exploration, ethical conduct, and sustainability leadership.
• Ensure alignment with Barrick’s social performance standards, human rights commitments, and responsible mining principles.
• Strengthen and protect Barrick’s social license to operate across all exploration jurisdictions.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and knowledge sharing across the Exploration organization.
• Propose and update the documents related to the SGA related to the areas of its competence.
• Participate in the identification or update of environmental aspects and impacts, as well as comply with the monitoring of environmental controls, measurement and verification mechanisms associated with environmental management that correspond to them.
• Participate in the identification of opportunities for improvement in activities related to the SGA.
• Ensure that the operational procedures in their charge are correctly applied.
• Provide information derived from the environmental management that falls on the position.
• Participate in environmental training activities when required, in coordination with their hierarchical supervisors.
• Communicate to the environmental area those events that constitute environmental incidents according to the current procedures, as well as participate in the investigation of them, contributing to the formulation of action plans.
• Carry out the tasks and works in accordance with the Environmental Policy and the guidelines of the Environmental Management System.
• Report environmental incidents and formulate corrective, preventive or mitigating measures, as appropriate.
• Participate in the corresponding environmental training activities.
• Cooperate and contribute to the overall success of the Environmental Management System by actively participating in its…