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Proven Principal Geologist with a track record of achieving zero fatalities and superior data quality. Expertise in drilling operations, cost estimating, and safety compliance drives successful project outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Managed and supervised multi-purpose drilling programs, including resource definition, geotechnical, and hydrogeological drilling, from planning through execution. Ensured compliance with HSE standards and drilling procedures across multiple contractors and drilling operations. Planned and supervised conventional and wedge drilling programs, ensuring alignment with exploration and project development objectives. Monitored drilling performance, core recovery, data quality, and productivity to ensure achievement of defined KPIs. Developed annual drilling budgets, controlling operational expenditures and ensuring contractor performance met project standards. Coordinated with geology, geotechnical, hydrogeology, and mining teams to deliver high-quality drilling data for resource evaluation and project studies. (promoted from Senior Geologist I June 2022-August 2024)
Key Achievements
-Achieved zero fatalities and no Lost Time Injuries (LTI) through strong safety leadership and strict HSE compliance.
Successfully delivered approximately 75,000 meters of core drilling across resource, geotechnical, and hydrogeological assessment programs.
-Consistently met drilling targets while maintaining high standards of data quality, safety, and operational efficiency.
Effectively managed drilling contractors and their subcontractors, ensuring safe, cost-effective, and timely delivery of drilling programs while maintaining high standards of operational performance and HSE compliance
-Provided technical leadership and mentoring to geology team members, facilitating skill development and career progression within the team.
Supervised exploration drilling operations across five rigs and multiple drilling contractors, ensuring safe and efficient field execution. Ensuring safe and efficient field execution. Validated, correlated, and reconciled exploration data to enhance accuracy and reliability. Developed and interpreted 2D and 3D geological fault models to support structural analysis and resource estimation. Planned drill holes based on geological models and integrated drilling and geological data to improve exploration accuracy and resource evaluation
Coal exploration including wellsite geologist and supervision drilling operation. Validated, correlated, and reconciled exploration data to ensure accuracy and consistency, supported geological modeling, and assisted with drill hole planning to optimize exploration programs and evaluate resources
Conducted coal exploration through field checks and surface geological mapping, supervised drilling operations, performed chip, core, and coal logging, and interpreted geophysical logs to identify and correlate coal seams for resource assessment
Drilling operations
Report preparation
Cost estimating
Teamwork and collaboration
Safety inspections
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ArcGIS
Introduction to Geothermal Drilling