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 colleague鈥檚 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.