Exploration Geologist - #231156

Who Are We?

SSR Mining Inc. is an intermediate gold company with four producing assets located in the USA, Canada, and Argentina, combined with a global pipeline of high-quality development and exploration assets in the USA, Turkey, and Canada.

SSR’s commitment to safety, collaboration, and excellence allows us to continue building upon our already strong foundation. With an industry-leading pipeline of projects, strong financial positioning, and talented employees, we look forward to our bright future!

Job Description

Reporting to the Manager, Canada Exploration, the Exploration Geologist is part of SSR’s Au-Cu exploration programs and collaborates with other departments of the company. The exploration geologist plays an important role in terms of planning, follow-up, target generation, logging and sampling, mapping, interpretation of the models, compliance with SSR’s best practices (including highest HSEC standards), QA/QC, and reporting.

The Day-to-Day

• Help implement drilling programs and work with technicians
• Ensure and plan field activities in a safe manner
• Conduct geological field mapping as required
• Conduct geological and geotechnical logging of drill core
• Interpret assay results and produce a report
• Assist and participate in weekly and monthly safety meetings/presentations,
• Implement procedures for exploration department
• Verify that the QA/QC is properly respected in the field sampling and drilling processes,
• Examine the exploration activities to ensure that they're safe,
• Create and update maps using ESRI ArcPRO software and maintain a GIS database.
• Completion and filing of Assessment reports
• Participate in targeting exercises in support of exploration in prospective areas.
• Use GPS navigation to locate and mark sampling and data points while hiking in the field carrying sampling equipment and sample
• Enter logging/assay information in Leapfrog in support of geologic model generation
  
  

Work Schedule: This position has a varied schedule. During active drilling and field programs, a 14x14 rotation based out of our remote exploration camps. You will be required to fly in fly out of Saskatoon. During off seasons, a Monday to Friday schedule is in effect.

Is This You?

• Bachelor’s Degree in Geology
• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in exploration
• Strong commitment to safety
• Strong ability to effectively communicate in English (oral and written)
• Experience working in a multicultural environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team
• Physical capability and skills for field work, including camping
• Travel extensively during field season
• Travel internationally when required
• Excellent working knowledge of all Microsoft Office software, especially Outlook, Excel, Word & PowerPoint
• Software expertise in Leapfrog, ArcPRO, ioGAS is an asset
  
  

SSR Mining Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Employment Equity

At SSR Mining – Seabee Gold Operation, we are dedicated to developing a talented and diverse workforce that reflects the communities where we operate. We actively promote employment equity and invite applicants to voluntarily indicate if they belong to a designated group during the hiring process. Employment equity is not about quotas or hiring individuals who are not qualified. Rather, it aims to broaden the pool of qualified candidates — including women, Indigenous peoples, visible minorities, and individuals with disabilities — and to eliminate barriers that may hinder their full participation in the workforce.

Women

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Aboriginal People

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Persons With Disabilities

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• Blindness or visual impairment (unable to see or having difficulty seeing, glaucoma; however, this does not include persons who can see well with glasses or contact lenses)
• Co-ordination or dexterity impairment (difficulty using hands or arms, for example, grasping or handling tools or using a keyboard)
• Deafness or hearing impairment (unable to hear or having difficulty hearing)
• Mobility impairment (difficulty moving around, walking long distances or difficulty moving using stairs)
• Speech impairment (unable to speak or difficulty speaking and being understood)
• Other disabilities (e.g., learning disabilities, developmental disabilities and all other types of disabilities)
  
  

Members Of Visible Minorities

Examples include, but are not limited to:

• Non-white Latin American (including Indigenous people from Central and South America)
• Black
• East Asian (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, Korean)
• South Asian/East Indian (e.g., Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, or East Indian from Guyana, Trinidad or East Africa)
• Southeast Asian (e.g., Burmese, Cambodian, Filipino, Laotian, Thai, Vietnamese)
• Non-white West Asian, North African or Arab (e.g., Iranian, Lebanese, Egyptian, Libyan)
• People of mixed origin (e.g. with one parent member of a visible minority group)
  
  

The information you are asked to provide is essential for Seabee Gold Operation to comply with the requirements of the Federal Contractors Legislation, and in helping Seabee Gold Operation identify and address workplace barriers by developing employment equity programs and policies. Although participation in completing this survey is voluntary, it is important for us to obtain the most accurate representation of our current workforce.

The information you provide will be kept CONFIDENTIAL and will be used to compile an overview of Seabee Gold Operation's workforce for government compliance purposes. In addition, the summarized results will be used to determine the distribution of designated group members in our workforce, analyze the current results, and track future progress in achieving a representative workforce. This information will not be placed in your employee files.