Production Geologist

Lubambe Copper Mine Limited (LCML) owns and operates the Lubambe underground Copper Mine located in Chililabombwe District of the Copperbelt Province in Zambia. The Mine which commenced operations in 2012 is situated approximately 468 kilometres North of the Capital City of Lusaka, 152 Kilometres from Ndola and approximately 40 Kilometres from Chingola.
Lubambe Copper Mine sits on an area of approximately 58.1 square kilometres and comprises an existing underground mine, characterised by two distinct limbs (the East and South Limbs) and a processing Plant with a capacity to process up to 2.4 million tonnes per annum.
LCML places the highest priority on safety with a world-class safety system in place and understands its obligations to carry out mining in a sustainable manner. Its Corporate Social Responsibility programme focuses on education, agriculture, health, and infrastructure.

At Lubambe we are committed to managing our business in line with our values. As such, we acknowledge that our People are the most important asset to Lubambe and are the key to our success. Where consistent to our business needs, Lubambe is committed to provide employment opportunities, training, and development for our People. We want our People to be successful.

JCHX owns 80% of LCML, whilst ZCCM-IH owns 20% on behalf of the Zambian Government.

LCML seeks to employ an experienced and qualified individual in the following position:

PRODUCTION GEOLOGIST (X1)

This position reports to the Senior Production Geologist.

Core Purpose of the Position

Production Geologist is responsible for geological data acquisition through diamond drilling and production stoping.

Key Performance Areas/Indicators (KPA/Is):

• Conduct rig checks for safety, adherence to safe working standards. Frequent PTO’s are a requirement.
• Ensure production daily reports are updated.
• Plan and formulate all geological production holes and issue layouts.
• Attend daily meetings with the Projects team to discuss upcoming diamond
  drilling sites and any other challenges to drilling.
• Generate geological drilling schedules and communicate the schedules to mine planning on a weekly, monthly and or annual basis.
• Monitoring all geological production drilling activities-hanging wall diamond drilling contractor on collar surveys.
• Supervise all geological drilling activities and effectively communicate with all drillers (Lubambe and Contractors).
• A plotted summary of holes is required at the end of any sequence of drilling in a diamond drill bay.
• Geological logging, sampling, and despatch to analytical lab of all diamond drilled core.
• Generate, validate and issue stop wireframes to planning.
• Attend weekly production meeting to address issues delaying diamond drilling and or highlight risks to business plan.
• Give guidance on areas ready for stoping in terms of available stope wireframes.
• Implement and conduct QA/QC on all resulting geological samples.

Academic Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Mineral Science (Geology) or equivalent.
• Member of Geoscience professional body.
• Two to four years’ experience in a Production or similar role in underground or open cast mining.
• Practical experience in diamond and or RC drilling.
• Practical experience in use of application software such as Datamine, Vulcan and or Surpac. Geological modelling in leapfrog will be added advantage.
• Practical experience in use of Excel & other related packages to manipulate data.

Applicants who meet the above requirements are invited to send their Curriculum Vitae in MS word format to recruitment@lubambe.com. The closing date for receipt of applications is Tuesday 12th November 2024.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.