Principal Structural Generative Geologist - Porphyry Copper | BHP Chile

About the role

The role of Principal Generative Structural Geologist will be responsible for supporting the identification and advancing the exploration of New Concepts for porphyry copper deposits, with the objective of reducing the search space and delivering high-quality exploration options to the Discovery team. The role ensures high-quality data capture, analysis, and interpretation to support informed business decisions, with strong Mineral Systems foundation. It also contributes to project evaluation, provides technical guidance, and supports the development and maintenance of a robust and healthy portfolio.

By promoting technical rigor and high standards of work, the Principal Generative Structural Geologist collaborates with stakeholders from the Discovery, Commercial and Operations teams to ensure alignment with overall plans and successful delivery of critical work programs.

This is a senior technical global position and reports directly to the Manager Generative Porphyry Copper Global and will be part of a team of eleven geoscientists based in multiple locations across the globe. This role can be based in Australia, Chile or North America (Perth, Santiago or Toronto preferred).

Main Responsabilities

• Act as a core member of a highly specialized team of experts responsible for identifying, assessing, and recommending new exploration opportunities for Porphyry Copper deposits globally.
• Accountable for carrying out high-quality field structural data capture, analysis, and interpretation leading to the creation of structural and architectural models for all projects in the Generative portfolio.
• To deliver on the long-term Exploration Strategy (2-5 years), contributing to building and maintaining a high-quality and healthy portfolio of porphyry projects for the global exploration pipeline.
• With understanding of key geological controls for porphyry systems, accountable to recommend, generate and progress new exploration concepts from large-scale reconnaissance to high-quality porphyry prospects within a 1-2 year time frame.
• To apply Mineral Systems thinking to design critical work programs for the assessment of prospectivity, efficient area reduction, and prediction of favorable areas for the formation of large-scale, high-quality porphyry systems.
• Promote a professional, vigorous, and safe working environment to ensure adherence to all regulatory and industry-standard working practices.
• To collaborate and work closely with multiple stakeholders and teams across the globe.
• Champion the use of integrated geoscience data across a range of scales to enhance understanding of structural evolution through geological time. Includes continuous development of the application of structural geology in exploration (data collection/interpretation).
• Contribute to the identification, evaluation and capture of opportunities inside approved country focus areas.
• Produce working geological models at regional and camp scale for exploration concept and reconnaissance through integration of multiple datasets (geological, geochemical and geophysical) and rigorous application of the Mineral System framework.
• Lead and/or participate in global technical reviews based on deep knowledge of porphyry copper systems.
• Provide expert and specialist geological skills, experience and capability to support Exploration projects and activities.
• Mentor and develop exploration teams through sharing geological skills, experience and capabilities.
• Provide timely, accurate, comprehensive, and credible technical reports and motivation documents for core Generative programs to assist and support high-quality decision-making.

About You

As the successful candidate you will have:

• University Degree majoring in Geology. Post-graduate degrees in structural, geochemistry or economic geology will be highly regarded (master’s or PhD).
• Sound understanding of structural geology and its application to ore deposit models and different mineral systems, and how they can be used to support decision-making in exploration.
• Extensive professional experience in geosciences (+12y) and solid understanding of generative workflows as applied to porphyry copper exploration with a demonstrable track record of success.
• Field experience, regional geological mapping, combined with ability to integrate multiple datasets at different scales to build defendable geological models and interpretations.
• Understanding and field experience in identifying critical processes necessary to form a porphyry copper mineral system.
• Project evaluation experience will be highly regarded.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish is highly desirable.

Location: Santiago.