Senior Mineralogist

This position is accountable for the successful and profitable management of projects and for clear concise verbal and written communication with colleagues and clients. This position may schedule supervise and coordinate project activities and have other professionals technologists and technicians reporting to it.

• Manages mineralogical projects to optimize client satisfaction and project profitability.
• Plans organizes and coordinates laboratory projects.
• May monitor production to ensure optimum staff levels / shifts to achieve superior standards for production quality and financial performance.
• Establishes methods to meet work schedules and coordinates work activities with other Professionals and Project Managers.
• Ensures the proper use of all facilities instruments and equipment used during a project.
• Peer review colleagues mineralogical reports for technical content readability and grammatical structure.
• Provides process mineralogical context to output from optical and automated (QEMSCAN TIMA-X SEM-EDS and XRD) mineralogical studies and provides Quality Control on the output through mineralogical balances and assay reconciliation checks and validation and using parallel mineralogical tools for validation purposes.
• Responsible for quality and timely completion of technical reports and related invoicing.
• Develops new business by maintaining good relationships with clients and identifying and addressing in a timely fashion their needs.
• Develops proposals from direction provided by the leader of the Mineralogy group in Canada.
• Writes technical articles for public presentation or publishing.
• Promotes the capabilities facilities personnel and experience of SGS and SGS Minerals in Canada and elsewhere.
• Constructively resolves work problems where they arise and recommends work measures to improve productivity and the quality of results.
• Mentoring of junior staff both technical and professional on both technical content and processes and report writing.

Qualifications :

Additional Information :

Salary :  $82500 to $120000 per year / 40 hours per week.

Some benefit highlights :

GS is an Equal Opportunity Employer and as such we recruit hire train and promote persons in all job classifications without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability age marital status sexual orientation gender identity or expression and Indigenous status or any other characteristics protected by law.

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodations. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge skills and / or abilities required.

This job description should not be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties responsibilities or requirements but a general description of the job. Nothing contained herein restricts the companys rights to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Accommodations are available on request for qualified candidates during each stage of the recruitment process.

Please note that candidates applying for Canadian job openings should be authorized to work in Canada.

Remote Work : No

Employment Type : Full-time

Key Skills

Graduate Engineering,Accounts Administration,Building Materials,Customer Support,Horticulture

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1