Geologist (Senior)

Company Description
- Anglo American is a leading global mining company and our products are essential ingredients in almost every aspect of modern life. Our portfolio of world-class competitive operations, with a wide range of future development options, provides many of the metals and minerals that make a cleaner, greener, more sustainable world possible and meet the growing daily demands of billions of consumers. With our people at the heart of our business, we use innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and safely and sustainably extract, process, move and market our products to our customers.

The Group Discovery and Geosciences (GDG) Team 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;
- Maximizing value realization from Anglo American’s portfolio of assets by implementing leading operational geoscience effectiveness.

**Job Description
- The Work**

Geoscientist and key member of the Chile exploration team, collaborating to safely drive a balanced portfolio of superior value opportunities towards discovery. This role forms a key function of the exploration team, fostering the team's technical excellence, ensuring a Zero Harm culture, and adherence to SHEC requirements and AA values.

**Key Outputs and Accountabilities**

**Safety, Health, Environment & Community (SHEC)**
- Ensure all activities are conducted according to the Discovery SHE Way and Social Way (see below).

**Performance & Delivery**
- Working as a close member of the Chile Discovery team, support the progression of quality opportunities through a balanced discovery portfolio. This includes responsibilities (including elements of leadership) within the following phases:

- Ensure the professional development of their direct reports, defining clear performance and development objectives.
- Execute designated project components to plan and within budget.

**People & Teams**
- Actively contribute to the purpose-led, high-performing culture that is aligned with the company values, is inclusive and promotes diversity and an environment in which each person has the opportunity to reach their potential.
- Drive excellence and innovation in exploration of porphyry (and associated) systems: develop a local, regional (and global) support network including collaborating with geoscientific technical experts in-house and externally; multiply new and existing skills and experience within the local (and regional) team. Pursue two-way mentoring and learning with exploration team members. Foster a culture of open communication, respect and inclusion.
- Ensure the professional development of any direct reports, defining clear performance and development objectives.
- Collaborate in the development and improvement of multidisciplinary geoscience data management, including compilation, analysis and innovative interpretation of multiple geoscience datasets at a district, prospect and target scale.
- Identify deficiencies in processes and help to implement corrective actions.

**Qualifications
- Qualifications**
- Degree in geology or geosciences. Desirable: further study or development in relevant topics such as economic geology, geochemistry, structural geology, geophysics, remote sensing.

**Technical knowledge**
- Operations: A minimum of 10 years’ experience in mineral exploration (required). In-depth understanding of different hydrothermal systems and commodities, with a focus on copper porphyries. New technologies and their impact on operational activities within scope of the role. Safety, Health and Environmental management.
- Commercial: Up-to-date understanding of the competitor environment (proficient). Basic financial metrics and budgeting tools. Business principles and ethics, with strong connections within the mining exploration community in Chile (and the Andes - desired) and associated stakeholders.
- Management:Exploration project management (proficient) including strategic planning of exploration, budgeting and project prioritisation; leadership tools for creating a culture of purpose-led, high performance and change (developing); risk management and critical controls. Management of community relations (developing) - Compliance: Internal and external compliance E.g. SHEC, ethics & integrity (proficient), relevant Chilean statutory and regulatory requirements (proficient)

**Technical skills**
- Advanced: Spanish language. Understanding of the mineral systems approach and characteristics of mineral deposits. Exploration scales and relevant geoscience techniques as applied to the exploration of porphyry copper deposits. Greenfield exploration skills including adaptation of generative and evaluation skills (desktop and practical) to distr