Director – Typhoon Geophysics

About the role

The Director – Typhoon Geophysics is a senior technical leadership position within Ivanhoe Electric’s Exploration team, leading deployment of Ivanhoe Electric’s proprietary Typhoon DC-IP survey technologies and geophysics personnel across IE’s global portfolio of projects to drive exploration discoveries.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, budgeting, execution, and evaluation of Ivanhoe Electric Typhoon DC-IP surveys across the global exploration project portfolio.
• Develop and implement geophysical safety standards and procedures to meet the company’s safety goals.
• Manage multiple operational teams in multiple locations.
• Train and develop staff.
• Undertake data analysis and modelling of Typhoon DC-IP and other geophysical datasets.
• Coordinate data inversions with Computational Geosciences Inc.
• Proactively communicate with other IVNE geoscientists, local technical staff, and management on a regular basis to report and interpret geophysical results.
• Ensure that best practices are utilized across IVNE’s exploration programs.
• Keep abreast of new geophysical developments, including industry, government, and academic research and activities, to ensure that leading-edge geophysical technologies are applied to our exploration programs.
• Field visits to remote project locations are required to support Typhoon programs, including the expectation of being on-site at projects.

Requirements

• Commitment to implementing the highest operational and technical safety standards.
• Experience developing budgets and managing remote technical teams.
• Specific experience with the acquisition, processing, inversion, and interpretation of Induced Polarization and Electromagnetic datasets.
• Extensive knowledge of potential field data collection and processing methodologies, including both ground and airborne surveys.
• Demonstrated experience in the presentation of geophysical data in 2D and 3D using Oasis Montaj, Geoscience ANALYST, and other specialist software.
• Geophysical inversion experience using SimPEG Python codes is viewed favorably.
• Minimum BSc (Hons) in Geophysics or related discipline and 10-15 years industry experience. Relevant post-graduate studies may also count towards industry experience.
• Ability to be registered with the EGBC as a professional geoscientist is viewed favorably.

Benefits

The Company offers a professional, entrepreneurial office environment and the opportunity to work alongside and grow with talented colleagues. The Company offers competitive compensation and an employee benefits package.