Exploration - Regional Principal Geoscience Data & Analytics Lead

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and oversight for all geochemical activities across North America, including survey design, sampling strategies, QA/QC frameworks, data management, interpretation, and integration.
• Define regional objectives for the Regional Geoinformatics/Geodata team and cascade them as a basis for local goal setting.
• Direct and lead performance, leadership, and evaluation processes for direct reports.
• Oversee mid-year and end-of-year evaluations of objectives and values.
• Manage talent within the team: identify skill gaps, develop action plans, and support career development.
• Establish succession plans by identifying key positions and potential successors within or outside the team.
• Cook up and promote training initiatives.
• Data Management
• Establish and lead the Geoinformatics organization to provide tools and support for data capture, analysis, and accessibility under strict quality control standards.
• Supervise the Leader GIS, Database, Remote Sensing and Data Science roles to ensure compliance with established protocols for proper information handling and best-practice solutions.
• Drive accessibility initiatives through applications that centralize common resources and services.
• Administer regional applications used in Exploration to ensure integration, centralization, and standardization of processes.
• Maintain active participation in corporate projects to optimize processes and create synergies for new implementations.
• Oversee external consultants and supervise data acquisition to support exploration activities.
• Develop and enforce policies for information administration and management, including security and quality control.
• Budget Management
• Manage budgets, including tracking software licenses, hardware standards, and related expenses.
• Alliances
• Coordinate and standardize global information management processes with regional offices, including protocol definition and knowledge transfer.
• Continuous Improvement & Innovation
• Design, evaluate, and implement new software tools, AI solutions and data science initiatives to enhance existing processes or introduce innovative solutions.
• Preform other duties as required

Qualifications

• Degree in Geology (oriented to Information Analysis), Geophysics, Geochemistry, Geological Engineering, GIS, Data Science, Geography, or Remote Sensing required +10 years of work experience, and at least 6 years of those in functions similar to those described for the position in the Mining Sector and preferably in Mineral Exploration preferred
• Knowledge of gold and copper ore deposits, exploration techniques and technologies to better drive and create data products preferred
• Requires knowledge of: Leapfrog and Geosoft software Proficiency with acQuire (or other database interface system), SQL (or similar) and Power BI (or similar software)
• ESRI/GIS platforms such as: ArcGIS Pro, QGIS, Geoprocessing and analysis, Survey 123, Field Maps and plugins (Target, etc.) Database systems: SQL Server intermediate level would be an asset.
• Cloud computing solution (e.g. Microsoft Azure) Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence frameworks (e.g. PyTorch) Remote sensing software, interpretation and application to mining/minerals exploration Artificial Intelligence and Data Science tools (machine learning (supervised and unsupervised models) with application to mining/minerals section Programming language: Python or R (desirable)
• Strong knowledge of Business Intelligence (BI) platforms and data visualization techniques is essential preferred