Been a Technical Consultant for awhile now and wanting something a bit different, without losing the technical side of your role as a Principal.
This consultancy offers a split role. They still want to utilise your strong estimation skills for the more difficult projects as well as your understanding of geostats for mentoring the junior Resource Geologists. However, they want to add new clients and develop other areas of their business which offers you the chance to delve further in business networking and corporate marketing.
Consultancy covers almost every continent, providing you with multiple established relationships as well as the ability to form new clients. You will of course be compensated for bringing in new business and projects through their client generation bonus scheme.
Ability for inter-office International secondments available and Management potential will be discussed.
To be considered for this role you will be degree qualified, with at least 18 years experience in the industry.

Consider the following: As Principal Resource Geologist, your influence flows upwards to the corporate strategy and planning with the Resource Manager and WA Manager as well as downwards to a team of about 9 Resource Geologist Specialists who run projects under your leadership.
There is a Balance: Use your technical expertise and people management skills on some of Australia’s largest mining projects. Company wants to utilise your strong geostats skills and resource estimation expertise for the more high end projects as well as developing other areas of the business through corporate marketing and business networking.
Company and Team worth working with: Reputation wise, this Perth based consultancy is considered Tier One. The Resource team is a standalone function group within a greater network of Mining disciplines the world over. This specific team has grown by a further 3 Consultants this year and is implementing similar growth now and into the future.
Prospects clearly identified: This influential Principal position offers the ability to move into a Manager position within one of their offices located across the globe.
As you know, the Geology space is ever changing, with current political and media hype adding to this turbulence. As such, you’ll apply your commercial acumen and business savvy to deal with clients expectations and strengthen relationships locally and between Australia, Africa and South East Asia.
The perfect candidate will be degree qualified with Post Graduate qualifications, with at least 15 years exp in consulting environment and solid geostatistics understanding.

Leadership position- the amount of ownership in this role is rare. Collaborate with the other Principals and the Directors- reflect on each other's technical expertise. Genuine variety of work, not just the high end resource estimation projects. Current projects include:

Due dilligence

Valuation of assets, mergers and acquisitions

Independent geological reports
Utilise your industry contacts to elevate company awareness within the industry and increase potential client base.
Perth based boutique consultancy. Resource team looking to increase by a further 40% by Q2 2010.
Benefits include the strength of the Director's reputations providing strong global mining networks as well as the rare opportunity to buy equity into the company (and your future).

You're currently working in a mine based role as a Resource Geologist but geostatistics is where you want to specialise.
You are getting some exposure at the moment, but there is no one to learn from and there is only so much Geostats you can do for one site or mining house.
A consultancy based role is your best bet to become a Geostats expert, by working on complex estimation projects with a variety of commodities (mainly gold, iron ore and base metals).
Become more marketable and respected in the industry as a 'Technical Specialist' due to this commodity exposure and specific projects.
Post Graduate studies in Geostatistics are encouraged with time and financial allowances to accomodate.
Perth based consultancy, considered tier one for producing high quality projects and as a result, consistent repeat business.
To be considered for this role you will be based in Australia with at least 10 years exp, JORC competent and an understanding of geostats.

By this stage in your career you are have about 15-20 years under your belt with a significant amount of mining and resource estimation experience throughout your career.
You may have branched into project management type roles or even worked for financial institutions.You may already be in a Resource Geologist role working more on the due dilligence/ audit functions.
This is a technical focused role reporting directly to the WA Manager. At times you will be working quite closely with the Resource Team of 10 who have a couple of eager Seniors Geologists keen to be exposed to parts of your specialisation:

Resource auditing

Valuation of potential projects

Due dilligence reviews
As expected at your level, there is an element of corporate marketing and business networking using your own industry contacts. This will be in association with the WA Manager and Resource Manager.
Perth based consultancy considered tier one within the consultancy industry. Projects are located locally and across the globe covering most continents including Africa and Sweden. Time abroad is kept to a minimum as pretty much everyone within the team has a family and work life balance is respected.
The perfect candidate for this role will be a local, degree qualified (business management/ post grad), contacts with the banks.

Interested in further developing expertise in Geostatistics and Uranium?
Project based role located in Western Australia, but spanning transcontinental clients in China, South Africa and Indonesia.
Contribute geostatistics, narrow lode estimations, grade control systems and due diligence across iron ore, gold and uranium projects.
Post graduate studies in Geostats encouraged. Guidance from Global Geostats experts in the local Perth office. Employee owned tier one consultancy, providing 457 sponsorship and relocation assistance.
To be considered for this role you will be JORC Competent in uranium with at least 10 years exp, Surpac preferred and strong expertise in Isatis.

Interested in further developing expertise in Geostatistics and Uranium?
Project based role located in Western Australia, but spanning transcontinental clients in China, South Africa and Indonesia.
Contribute geostatistics, narrow lode estimations, grade control systems and due diligence across iron ore, gold and uranium projects.
Post graduate studies in Geostats encouraged. Guidance from Global Geostats experts in the local Perth office. Employee owned tier one consultancy, providing 457 sponsorship and relocation assistance.
To be considered for this role you will be JORC Competent in uranium with at least 10 years exp, Surpac preferred and strong expertise in Isatis.

Joining an already growing team of 15, most of your work will be with gold, iron ore and uranium and you will support the Principals who have over 25 years experience each. The Principals are renown for their expertise in resource estimation and geostatistics and they actually want to train you to become an expert in this field also.
Perth based consultancy. Supportive culture and a flat structure tends to bring about greater collaboration within the team as well as more individual responsibility to help with internal promotion. Their vision is to develop you into a Principal Resource Geologist within the next 12-18 months.
10-15 years experience (operational background), Surpac and Datamine user with some exposure to business development.

Not happy with the way things are run at the moment? Difference in opinion and lack of communication from the top end?
All of these things have been frustrating you for awhile. Now is the time to do something about it and make sure you enjoy your job!

Flat management structure makes sure you will steer clear of any bureaucracy and enables you to be given the recognition you deserve.

Managers have a clear vision of what is happening within the company now and the future direction. Management will keep you in the loop with open communication.

Company prides themselves on high staff morale in addition to its sociable working environment and Friday arvo drinks.

Respected company within the WA market with active gold, copper and coal exploration projects Australia wide.

Recent acquisitions has secured multiple tenements for future exploration and development.

Residential role in Kalgoorlie
To be successful in this role you will have a Bachelor of Science (Geology), at least 10 years Australian exp, solid resource modeling and estimation skills + geostats.

Majority of the Consultants within this team are at the Principal level. They want to add a more Junior Resource Consultant to the team to run resource estimations and mould into a Technical Specialist.
Purely technical role with no business development which is not normally on offer. My client has said, "that is not their problem, it's mine." Business development doesn't seem to be a big issue at the moment though, with clients located all over the place both locally, nationally and overseas.
You are in a fortunate position to be working directly with each of the Principals who are well respected within the industry.
Each of the Principals will be your Team Lead for the various projects, allowing you the variety of all of the Principal's technical expertise and managerial experience.This opportunity is genuinely a once-in-a-life time.
Company is considered to be "the cream of the crop" offering career progression through to a Principal level with the right amount of skills and experience and further education is encouraged within the next 3 years.
This role is based within WA with some international travel- max. 2-3 weeks at a time, generally shorter. The Consultants are a pretty social bunch and they are looking for someone with a solid work ethic that enjoys what they do.
Ideally you will have 3 years+ resource estimation experience, operational background and solid technical report writing skills.

Waiting for an internal promotion into a Principal role? If you are working in operations you will more than likely be waiting for someone else to leave, move up or sideways before this will happen. This can hold your career advancement back by 1- 5 years.
You can either wait it out or move into a consultancy where there are no limitations as to how many Principal Resource Geologists they can have. With about a 42% growth in the last financial year they are forecasting 65% for 2010/11 positioning you well - you dont need to wait the pre-requisite eighteen years to get there.
As a Principal, manage the higher end projects (audits, due dilligence, reconciliation studies) as well as contributing to business strategy, technical development and staff management.
This experience across commodities and clients will prepare you well for either a Principal role in a mining house with a variety of commodities or you could stay within a consultancy environment progressing towards Resource Management roles or Corporate areas.
Degree qualified with at least 12 yrs exp (exposure to OP and UG) with solid resource estimation and modeling skills.

• Besides company strengths and reputation, there is financial backing, resources, international marketing initiatives....
• Collaborate with another Principal also an expert in coal to build team
• Audits and due diligence studies
• Generation and review of resources and reserves
• Modelling of deposits, participation in mining feasibility studies 
JORC compliant resource assessment
• Geological and coal quality modelling

An autonomous role that lets you buy equity into the company (and your future) with an international Engineering firm.

• Practice and teach: conditional simulation and risk, resource estimation,
• Geometallurgical modelling, variography, strategic resource consulting
• Reconciliations, audits and reviews in Mongolia, PNG, Australia & North America

Team of Resource Geologists each boasting 12-20yrs exp supports a company focus on purely high-end assignments & provides an enviable pool of ideas