What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Geologist position at SSR Mining?
Who Are We?
SSR Mining Inc. is an intermediate gold company with assets located in the four jurisdictions including the USA, Türkiye, Canada, and Argentina, combined with a global pipeline of high-quality development and exploration assets in the USA, Türkiye, and Canada.
SSR Mining is committed to delivering excellence through the contributions of our dedicated employees. With an industry-leading pipeline of projects, strong financial positioning, and talented employees, we aim to continue building on our strong foundation – we have high expectations for the future!
Job Description:
Reporting directly to the Senior Exploration Geologist and under direction from the Exploration Manager, the Project Geologist is responsible for working with project teams to discover economic deposits within the assigned area. As required, the Project Geologist will plan, implement, and execute safe, cost-effective exploration programs and conduct project-level target generation, logging and sampling, mapping, 3D modelling and interpretation.
The Day to Day:
Project Exploration:
- Experience in Carlin and Epithermal advantageous.
- Strong commitment to safety and SSR values.
- Deliver exploration programs through contractor management, technical data acquisition, and interpretation.
- Manage project budgets and timelines.
- Undertake geological, geochemical, structural and geophysical interpretation of exploration data.
- Develop and manage working 3D models of exploration areas.
- Ensure data management and validation for all US exploration programs are completed in line with SSR procedures.
- Collect geological data including geological mapping, stream, soil, auger, rock chip samples, and describe samples as required to enable integration into geological interpretations.
- Systematic core and chip logging.
- Communicate project status and progress on a regular basis. This includes weekly and monthly technical reporting.
- Ensure reporting requirements are completed in agreed time frames.
Target Generation:
- Develop innovative data analysis techniques and methodologies to improve project targeting and project management.
Safety, Health, Environment, Community:
- Ensure SSR policies and processes are followed in all work programs while leading by example.
- Ability to recognize and stop any exploration activity deemed to be unsafe or likely to have an environmental impact due to inadequate management.
- Implement SSR safety management systems and tools to manage safety risk.
- Ensure legal duty of care associated with exploration is well understood.
- Coach and influence SSR employees, partners and contractors on safety and health procedures.
- Work with team members to ensure practical and proactive solutions are achieved for safety risks identified and ensure identified actions are implemented and closed out.
- Ensure environmental management requirements are implemented in all programs to manage environmental compliance.
- As appropriate and required, complete basic stakeholder engagement (e.g. local community liaison) and contractor management (e.g. drill supervision, soil sample supervision, geophysical contractor supervision).
Is this you?
- Residing in Winnemucca, Reno, or Elko, NV.
- B.Sc. in Geology
- >5 years of related experience in the mining/exploration industry
- Good understanding of ore deposit geology with a desire for discovery
- Enthusiasm, drive and a proactive team player
- Demonstrated experience utilizing exploration data and drill core logging.
- Strong problem-solving and 3-dimensional thinking skills.
- Ability to work both independently and within a team, in a rapidly changing environment.
- Ability and willingness to travel to and work at SSR Mining’s exploration properties for extended periods of time (3 to 4 weeks duration).
- Exposure to project exploration targeting.
- Excellent skills in industry standard software (ArcGIS, Leapfrog etc.).
Benefits: 401(k); medical/dental/vision insurance; employee share purchase plan, PTO, and STI.
SSR Mining Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
