Chief Specialist, Accelerating discovery to development (Exploration & Resource Development Business Partner)

Role overview

Exploration technology leadership

• Shape the enterprise technology roadmap for automation, advanced sensing, AI-enabled targeting, and intelligent drilling.
• Select and deploy technologies based on scientific validity, readiness, field applicability, and potential business value.
• Adapt relevant technologies and practices from Oil & Gas, space exploration, OEMs, academia, and research institutions.

Data, AI, and subsurface intelligence

• Integrate geological, geophysical, geochemical, and remote-sensing information to strengthen interpretation, target ranking, and uncertainty management.
• Apply predictive modelling, deep learning, physics-informed AI, and probabilistic approaches to improve exploration insights.
• Establish confidence-based measures for uncertainty, reproducibility, and learning rate.

Field-to-lab validation and operating model

• Connect field sensing, drilling, and sampling with high-throughput analysis, automated core analysis, and digital sample traceability.
• Improve reproducible validation and reduce laboratory turnaround, rework, re-analysis, and delays to decisions.
• Design scalable workflows linking field acquisition, laboratory analysis, and AI-enabled interpretation.
• Enable productivity through automation, digital twins, sensor fusion, autonomous or remote technologies, and AI-assisted workflows.

Technology value and success measures

• Evaluate technologies for scientific robustness, readiness, field constraints, cost, risk, scalability, and practical value.
• Success includes faster validated results, less avoidable re-analysis, more confident drill-ready targets, and improved exploration efficiency.
• Demonstrate adoption and scaling of high-value technologies and cross-industry innovations.

Qualifications and experience

• Advanced degree in Geoscience, Geophysics, Mining Engineering, or a related discipline; MSc or PhD preferred.
• 20+ years of relevant experience in mineral exploration, subsurface science, or adjacent Oil & Gas exploration domains.
• Experience applying Data & AI, automation, advanced sensing, or subsurface analytics in exploration or comparable technical environments.
• Experience with advanced laboratories, mineral characterization, high-throughput testing, certified methods, or regulatory acceptance.
• Experience in AI-enabled QA/QC, anomaly detection, confidence estimation, or uncertainty analysis, with understanding of field exploration constraints.

Skills

• Mineral exploration technology, subsurface science, advanced sensing, drilling, and field technologies.
• Data, AI, predictive subsurface analytics, laboratory analytics, and mineral characterization.
• Scientific validation, QA/QC, uncertainty quantification, technology assessment, qualification, and scaling.
• Exploration workflow optimization, value realization, cross-industry technology transfer, technical advisory, and stakeholder influence.