Debmarine Namibias Mineral Resources Management Department requires the services of a Sea-going Production Geologist for one of the crawler vessels, as part of the Production Geology team. The primary role will be to provide hands-on production geological support to one the crawler vessels to ensure optimum extraction of the mineral resource. The incumbent will be deployed on a 28 day on 28 day off work schedule and will be required to undertake the following activities:
Specification
KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS:
- Continuous mine production geology support including detailed mapping of areas scheduled to be mined, statistical and quantitative analyses of various parameters that impacts mining, resource reconciliation and production optimization.
- Reviews both short and long term mine plans (crawler) for any resource related risks along with identifying and executing appropriate risk mitigation measures.
- Undertakes geophysical data interpretation (2D and 3D chirp seismics) to aid mining rate prediction, mineability assessment and mining efficiency monitoring through all available datasets including possibly post mining AUV datasets.
- Performs detailed reconciliation of crawler operating parameters (heat maps) that impact mining rate (number of slews, stepping distance and tramming speed) and clean-up efficiency.
- Continuously monitor, audit and perform quality control checks of various production and specific crawler operating parameters to optimize production.
- Performs detailed production reconciliation on all key mineral resource and mining parameters and pro-actively identify causes of anomalous performance.
- Contributes in identifying possible actions to maximize/optimize production and ensure that production is undertaken at maximum possible efficiency.
- Documents production related inputs, outputs, key parameters and observations in written reports and illustrate with maps, cross sections, histograms, cross-plots, dashboards and summary tables.
- Participates in short-term operational mine planning and prepares detailed monthly production reports and presentations.
- Evaluates current practices and keeps current on new developments in geology and other related fields to identify improvement opportunities on current mineral resource practices.
- Provides geological and mineral resource support as required across other departments and work collaboratively between teams to ensure that best practices, optimizations and innovations are consistently and efficiently applied on-board the vessel.
KEY COMPETENCIES REQUIRED:
- Demonstrated working knowledge and skills utilizing office applications including MS Office, and MS Access database.
- Good working knowledge in geological modelling with emphasis on sedimentology and stratigraphic interpretation skills.
- Competent in 2D and 3D seismic interpretation using Geosuite and/or SeisAVS.
- Experience and working knowledge with ArcGIS.
- Knowledge of production reconciliation and grade control practices.
- Working knowledge with spatial relational databases and able to quickly extract and merge datasets from different databases.
- Familiar with basic statistics and quantitative analyses of production or sampling datasets as well as data integration skills with demonstrable experience.
- Strong verbal, written, analytical and persuasive skills. Ability to write high quality technical reports.
- Conscientious in taking on new tasks to improve skills, and consistently willing to learn and improve skills.
- Possesses a positive attitude at all times and good organizational, teamwork and interpersonal skills.
- Able to work under pressure, exercise discretion and judgement in job performance while meeting or exceeding expectations set by management.
- Be a positive safety minded contributor to the team with a strong commitment to safety at all times.
- Smart and hard work, adaptability and agility will be key attributes required in this role.
Requirements
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
- BSc Honours degree in Geosciences/Earth Sciences (e.g. Geology/Geophysics).
- 3 - 5 years experience working as a Geological Observer in mining and exploration.
- Candidates with some Statistics and/or Mathematics academic background will be preferred and thus have a strong advantage.
- Applied computing skills and data analytics complementary qualifications or experience will be an advantage.
WOMEN ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.
Preference will be given to Namibian citizens and designated persons as prescribed by the Namibian Affirmative Action Act.
Please submit a comprehensive CV with proof of qualifications and experience to by following the application and registration process on the Sage portal via the Company website www.debmarinenamibia.com or directly at https://debmarinenamibia.jb.skillsmapafrica.com/
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted and be subjected to further assessment if necessary.