Reporting to: Growth and Partnership Director. ■ JOB PURPOSE Provide the Growth function with embedded technical and commercial expertise to to proactively scout, screen, and evaluate global mining opportunities. Challenge external technical assumptions, build preliminary economics, and serve as the technical anchor inside every Growth deal team - from first screening through to investment-decision support. ■ KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES Opportunity Scouting, Screening, and Prioritization • Proactively scout and identify potential mining and exploration opportunities globally, including off-market and early-stage assets. • Issue an initial technical and economic view on both sourced and inbound opportunities within a defined turnaround time. • Maintain a live technical pipeline of evaluated targets, ranked by quality, risk, strategic fit, and capital intensity. • Work closely with the Business Development Manager to co-develop origination themes, target assets, and focus geographies. Technical Review and Challenge • Conduct desktop reviews covering geology, resource and reserve, mining method, processing route, infrastructure, logistics, HSE, and ESG. • Critically review external technical reports - JORC, NI 43-101, SK-1300, scoping, PFS, and DFS studies - and articulate, in writing, where assumptions are defensible, optimistic, or weakly supported. Preliminary Economics • Build first-pass economic models at FEL-1 / scoping precision - basic mine plan, capex and opex benchmarks, by-product credits, transport, royalties, NPV, and IRR. • Identify the small number of value-driver assumptions on which each investment thesis depends, and stress-test them. Due Diligence Leadership - Technical Workstream • Act as the primary technical contributor from the Growth side during transaction due diligence, working with the Investments and M&A Manager and external technical advisors. • Coordinate with MDO's operations, exploration, and technical services teams for deeper diligence beyond the screening stage. Investor and Counterparty Engagement • Represent MDO credibly in technical discussions with miners, joint-venture partners, sovereign counterparts, and investors - both as a listener and a challenger. • Author the technical sections of Investment Committee papers, Board submissions, and OIA decks to a standard that is rigorous, concise, and decision-oriented. ■ KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS • Number and quality of proactively identified opportunities. • Number of opportunities screened per quarter against pipeline volume. • Turnaround time from opportunity intake to initial technical view (target: ten working days). • Tolerance of preliminary economics versus subsequent fuller due diligence outputs. • Reduction in MDO's reliance on external technical advisors for the screening stage. • Quality rating of technical inputs into Board and Investment Committee papers. ■ WORKING RELATIONSHIPS INTERNAL Growth & Partnership Director, Investments and M&A Manager, Business Development Manager, Technical Services, Operations, Exploration, Finance, HSE & ESG. EXTERNAL Counterparty technical teams, Competent Persons, mining consultants, JORC / NI 43-101 authors, JV partners, equity research analysts. ■ DECISION-MAKING AUTHORITY • Provide independent technical recommendations (go / no-go / further work) to support decision-making by the Growth & Partnership Director. • Commission external technical advisor input within scope and budget pre-approved by the Growth & Partnership Director. • Escalate to the Growth & Partnership Director any opportunity where technical risk materially diverges from the counterparty's stated position, or where MDO's internal capability is insufficient to validate critical claims. ■ QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE • Bachelor's degree in mining engineering, geology, metallurgy, or mineral processing. • A master's degree in mineral economics, mining engineering, or an MBA is preferred. • Minimum 7 years of combined operations and commercial experience, with credibility on both sides of the mine gate. • Career path drawn from one or more of: mining operations followed by corporate development or technical services; mining consulting (SRK, WSP, AMC, RPM, ERM, Behre Dolbear or equivalents); equity research analyst coverage of the mining sector; technical M&A diligence inside a mining major or mid-tier. • Hands-on exposure to one or more of MDO's priority commodities - copper, gold, chromite, industrial minerals - preferred. • Working familiarity with JORC, NI 43-101, or SK-1300 reporting. Competent Person status, or a clear pathway to it, is a distinct advantage. • Africa, Central Asia, or MENA project experience is highly valued. ■ KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & COMPETENCIES Technical • Resource and reserve interpretation - block models, classification, conversion, depletion, dilution, and recovery. • Mine planning fundamentals across open-pit and underground; strip ratio, cut-off grade strategy, and schedule double-checking. • Process flowsheet understanding - recovery, by-product economics, concentrate specifications, deleterious elements. • Commercial fluency - capex / opex benchmarking, royalty and tax regimes, transport, port and concentrate logistics, payability, and treatment/refining charges. • Preliminary economic modeling and sensitivity analysis. Behavioural • Business insight - connects geology and engineering with cash flow. • Decision quality under conditions of incomplete information. • Curious and proactive. Actively seeks out opportunities rather than relying solely on inbound flow. • Manages ambiguity in early-stage exploration and farm-in opportunities. • Communicates effectively - translates technical complexity into decision-oriented language for Boards and shareholders. • Intellectually rigorous; willing to challenge consultants and counterparties - in writing and in the room - with composure.
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