Manager, Exploration

Overview

Key Accountabilities:

In this role, the individual will be an active safety leader. Establish, lead, and drive exploration work programs to achieve the exploration strategy, targets, KPIs. Develop drilling strategies, plans, and budgets in collaboration with the Director of Exploration and other stakeholders, emphasizing the identification and delineation of new mineral resources near existing mine sites. Provide the technical framework, guidance, and peer review of exploration targets to the site-based team in achieving exploration objectives.

Lead continuous improvement in understanding of the economic geology of identified target areas. Interpret drilling results and provide geological insights and recommendations to support resource estimation, optimization, and development planning decisions. Support creation of a 5-year overview of exploration work, inventory delivery forecast, budget, and project pipeline advancement for Greenfields & Brownfields projects aligned to Maaden’s growth strategy and business plan.

Create and budget a detailed 2-year exploration work program to deliver business commitments. Collaborate with stakeholders to confirm exploration plans are socially and environmentally responsible and Lands management through application of governance standards. Track exploration performance against established KPIs, provide regular updates and analysis. Ensure collaboration between technical teams, study and supporting cross functional teams, and business partners to solve execution challenges and leverage synergies.

Update and validate exploration programs in response to new data and economic, social, and environmental conditions. Apply and govern the exploration systems and technical standards to confirm safe operations, productivity and drive standard methodology. Support the ME group in desktop and field review of potential target areas, exploration properties and early-stage projects aligned with the Company’s long-term goals. Ensure an owner’s mind-set is applied to all elements of exploration to deliver efficient, smart & faster delivery of exploration programs and assessment of targets.

Explain the purpose of the work of your team and how it adds value to the business. Encourage your team members to identify critical issues which will affect the work. Listen when issues are raised. Allocate work to your team to contribute to achieving the team goals. Review of how team members perform with their work. Recognize and reward good work, including through feedback and coaching.

Work with your Director to build and develop your team, including recruiting and performance management. Work with your Director to help develop the people on your team. Review the decisions of Superintendents & Leads on your team and correct the course when needed. Design roles for team members who work for the Superintendents / Leads on your team. Foster a climate that is inclusive where team members feel safe to contribute and collaborate, receive feedback and coaching.

Listen, understand, and ask questions about the purpose of the team and how it adds value. Speak up when you see critical issues/problems which will affect the work. Contribute ideas about improving how things get done. Check if you are unclear about the work you have been given, ask questions and make sure you understand. Ask for feedback from your leader so your work continuously improves.

Stop all unsafe work.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Professional Degree in Geological Science or related degree

Minimum Experience:

• Over 13 years of industry experience, including a minimum of 8 years with a major mining company and experience of operating at a management level.

Skills:

• Develops and refines existing systems, and develops new systems, by understanding trends within a single field of knowledge
• Recognizes the interconnections of data from a flow of real events within a system (or knowledge field, or discipline)
• Thinks about alternative means to achieve a goal by forming chains of hypothetical activities (if this, then that; if that, then the other)
• G…