Senior Mine Database Geologist

The Kinross Corporate Head Office is located in downtown Toronto and supports Kinross' operations and projects worldwide. Corporate functions include Finance, Procurement, Health & Safety, Human Resources, IT, Investor Relations, Exploration, Geology and Mine Planning, among others.

Job Description

• Be part of the Kinross Corporate Geological Database Team assisting on the different tasks related to the management and maintenance of the company's exploration and ore control data systems
• Support mine reconciliation data collection, compilation, and reporting systems
• Support different sites on their database and ore control needs and traveling to sites when the assigned task requires it

Job Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to all sites on the maintenance of geological data in acQuire
• Develop, implement and maintain quality assurance/quality control protocol and systems in the database for geological data
• Perform routine health check of geological data in acQuire to ensure the validation of the data stored in the database
• Work closely with other members of the Corporate Database Team and site Database Administrators to support KTS Resource Geologists providing validated data when required.
• Assist with the training of users in the different software used in exploration and ore control, showing the correct procedures in data manipulation, import and exports, as well as in the management of geological data and map creation.
• Assist on the generation of analyses, reports on the Qa/Qc data in acQuire or Arena
• Support all sites on reconciliation of ore production and maintain the corporate reconciliation data compilation and reporting system
• Involved in resolving any issues with sites in ore control and related database

Education and Experience

• Undergraduate degree in Geology or Geoscience
• 5-8 years experience in the mining Industry in Mine Geology and Exploration
• Proficiency in Relational Database Management Systems (acQuire experience is desired)
• Knowledge of SQL and/or GIS is a plus

Travel Requirements

Ability and willingness to travel

Ability to travel internationally

Frequent travel required, including internationally

Require travel to operational site(s)

Kinross is a Canadian-based gold mining company with mines and projects in Canada, the United States, Brazil, Chile, Russia, Ghana and Mauritania, employing approximately 9,300 people worldwide. Our core purpose is to lead the world in generating value through responsible mining.