Senior Geologist

Company Description
-NB - this role can be based in Santiago, Chile or Lima, Peru.

With headquarters in London, UK, and operations located throughout the world, we employ more than 60,000 colleagues worldwide and run mining operations across Southern Africa and North and South America. Within Anglo American, Group Technical represents and drives this future of mining, as industry and world leading technical experts and innovators. Group Technical colleagues around the world work in partnership with Business Units and other Group functions to re-imagine mining.

Group Discovery and Geosciences (GDG) is a competitive differentiator for Anglo American. GDG contributes to achieving Anglo American’s Purpose of re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives in two important ways - Creation of transformative value through the safe and effective discovery of two or more superior-value mineral deposits every decade; and maximising value realisation from Anglo American’s portfolio of assets by integrated LoAP planning incorporating leading operational geoscience, mining and processing best practice, mine closure and ESG leading practices.

Job Description
-We are seeking a Senior Generative Geologist – Opportunity Mapping. The core purpose of this role is to deliver actionable opportunities for superior value discovery; through systematic search space reduction within prioritised search space. This will be in collaboration with the Americas Generative and regional Discovery teams through mapping of technical quality, exploration maturity, explorability, above ground opportunities and risks (AGORA) and land access.

Key role requirements:

• Deliver actionable portfolio opportunities for investment and/or staking on an annual basis.
• Focused search space reduction and opportunity mapping within prioritized provinces and segments.
• Work collaboratively to support holistic mapping of opportunity space and drive project entry into actionable superior value discovery opportunities.
• Drive understanding of controls to development of superior value deposits at the district to prospect scale.
• Actively monitor and implement appropriate technology and innovation with application to search space reduction and opportunity space generation.
• Actively monitor commercial opportunities in prioritised search space and support further development of intelligence systems for tracking the commercial opportunity space.
• Develop and maintain relationships with 3rd parties holding land positions within prioritised search space.

Qualifications
-Formal Qualifications

• BSc in Geology.
• Advantageous – Post grad degree in Economic Geology.

Role-specific technical skills & knowledge:

• 5-10+ years' experience with a focus on project generation, with specific experience across the Andes region.
• A demonstrated ability to apply leading edge systems thinking to define new search space for superior value discoveries and deliver actionable exploration opportunities.
• A strong understanding of geologically defined exploration scales and relevant geoscience techniques as applied to the exploration of the magmatic-hydrothermal, basin-hosted Cu, and orthomagmatic mineral systems for scale reduction and project generation.
• A proven working knowledge of geophysical methods and datasets for use in geologic and structural interpretations.
• Experience in working in difficult jurisdictions with respect to land, permitting, and communities across the Andes regions.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively within cross-discipline teams to address critical questions.
• Spanish and English capabilities – written and oral.
• In depth experience applying geochemistry to search space reduction and targeting across scales.
• Experience integrating multidisciplinary datasets including geology (e.g., surface mapping, drilling), geophysics (e.g. magnetics, gravity, electro-magnetics), remote sensing (e.g. topography, spectral) and geochemistry (e.g., geochronology, surface anomalies).
• Greenfield exploration skills including adaptation of generative and evaluation skills (desktop and practical) from District to Prospect scales.

Additional Information
-What We Offer

When you join Anglo American, you can expect to enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package. But more than this, you’ll find yourself in an environment where the opportunities for learning and growth are second to none. From technical training to leadership programs, we bring out the best in our people. There are plenty of opportunities to move ahead and upwards too. We’re a large, successful multinational company – and we’re still growing all the time.

How We Are Committed To Your Safety
Nothing is more important to us than ensuring you return home safely after a day’s work. To make that happen, we have the most meticulous safety standards in the industry. Not only that, we’re also constantly investing in innovative technologies that are helping to make mining safer.

Inclusion and Diversity
We are committed to promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace where we value and respect every colleague for who they are. We provide equality of opportunity to enable everyone to fulfil their potential.