Geologist - Project Resource

The Project Geologist leads geological programs that directly support safe, cost-effective, and value-driven mining across production, growth, and discovery activities in open pit and underground environments. The role integrates data acquisition, interpretation, modelling, and operational feedback to optimize ore definition, production performance, and longer-term geological understanding of the deposit. Through sound geological judgment, the Project Geologist converts field observations into defensible three-dimensional interpretations that inform development planning, stope and pit design, grade control strategies, and resource growth.

The role owns the design, sequencing, and execution of drilling, mapping, and sampling programs aligned with geological strategy, production priorities, and cost targets. Responsibilities include preparing and reviewing drill designs, refining geological targets, assessing blast movement impacts, and adjusting programs to balance knowledge gain with operational efficiency. Data acquisition standards are enforced across drilling and face sampling programs, with accountability for nomenclature, QAQC, and ensuring that all datasets are suitable for modelling, estimation, and decision-making.

Operationally, the Project Geologist supervises drilling and field teams, manages contractors, validates daily drilling and production data, and resolves geological or operational issues in real time. The role identifies and corrects production tracking errors, ore and waste misallocations, and sampling or data quality issues, and provides technical direction when development or mining deviates from geological expectations. Close coordination with mining, engineering, survey, geotechnical, and metallurgy teams ensures alignment between geological interpretation and execution, reducing geological and production risk.

Technically, the Project Geologist builds and updates geological and mineralization models using industry-standard software, integrates drilling and mapping datasets, establishes domaining rules, and applies statistical and geostatistical methods to evaluate data quality and geological continuity. Models are validated visually and statistically, and interpretations are peer-reviewed, defended with data, and communicated through maps, sections, models, and formal presentations.

The role contributes to drill program proposals, completion reports, end-of-month reporting, and life-of-asset planning inputs, and supports environmental, land access, heritage, and OHS requirements associated with geological programs. A key function of the role is technical leadership and coaching of junior geologists and operators, embedding continuous improvement through QAQC, reconciliation, and modelling performance feedback. Strong communication and collaboration are essential to maximize geological confidence and value delivery across the mine lifecycle.