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Council for Geoscience Careers

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The Council for Geoscience (CGS) is a Market Leader in the Delivery of Expert Earth Science Solutions, and has an acclaimed track record of over 100 years both locally and globally. Its Head Office is situated in Silverton Pretoria and has regional offices in the country. The CGS prides itself on having a winning team of specialist scientists within the various fields of Geology.

If you are interested in a career in the field of geoscience, and possess the relevant experience, with a keen interest and drive for scientific research and innovation and you are in possession of a BSc Honours, MSc and PhD in any of the fields mentioned below, please forward your CV to the relevant email address for future contact.

The Human Resources Department shall be in touch with you as and when suitable positions arise in the future, should you possess the required competencies, experience and qualifications.

Our various fields of speciality are listed below:

SEISMOLOGY

Core Focus Areas:

  • Seismic hazard and risk assessment of sensitive structures
  • Engineering Seismology
  • Research into seismic safety of mines
  • Seismic risk assessment
  • Operation and maintenance of seismological stations of the South African National Seismograph Network (SANSN)
  • Participation in the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Core Competencies:

  • In depth knowledge on seismic monitoring of earthquakes and wave propagation
  • Analysis and interpretation of digital seismographs (including infrasound traces) recorded from earthquakes and other seismic disturbances
  • Operation and maintenance of seismic instrumentation
  • Analysis of earthquake source processes
  • Structural geology
  • Project management
  • Quality control on projects
  • Mentoring

ENGINEERING GEOSCIENCE

Core Focus Areas:

  • Engineering: geological and geotechnical expertise
  • Engineering: geological site investigations aimed at dams and dam safety, tunnels, pump stations and reservoirs
  • Construction material investigations
  • Slope-stability investigations
  • Structure or Urban Development plans
  • Engineering geological Database (ENGEODE)
  • Regional engineering geotechnical mapping
  • Research, focusing on understanding the dolomitic environment and its stability risk

Core Competencies:

  • Thematic research
  • Engineering geological site investigations
  • Scientific research
  • Projects management
  • Quality control on projects
  • Mentoring

WATER GEOSCIENCE

Core Focus Areas:

  • Planning and assessment of rural water-supply systems
  • Ground water resource assessments (quantification, flow determination and water quality studies)
  • Ground water sustainability studies for both resources and water supply schemes
  • Management of ground water resources, including exploration
  • Ground water and contaminant transport modeling
  • Management of ground water contamination (e.g. impact on mining, as well as waste and sanitation facilities)
  • Hydrogeological mapping
  • Environmental management programme reports (EMPRs)
  • Specialist environmental drilling services (direct push methods, as well as gas and water sampling)
  • Geohydrological research

Core Competencies:

  • Hydro-geochemical modelling of hydrogeological systems
  • Groundwater flow conceptual and numerical modeling
  • Geospatial analytical techniques
  • Knowledge in applied ground water studies
  • Project management
  • Scientific research
  • Quality control on projects
  • Mentoring

GEOPHYSICS

Core Focus Areas:

  • Airborne surveys (high density)
  • Modeling and interpretation
  • Ground surveys (all techniques)
  • Determination of physical properties of rocks
  • Palaeomagnetic measurement
  • Reconstruction of analogue data
  • Geophysical research

Core Competencies:

  • Modeling and interpretation
  • Geophysical ground surveys (all techniques)
  • Scientific research
  • Interpretation of magnetics, seismics and radiometrics
  • Project management
  • Quality control on projects
  • Mentoring

MARINE GEOSCIENCE

Core Focus Areas:

  • Marine geophysical surveying
  • Near shore and continental shelf mapping
  • Resource surveys of heavy minerals, marine placer diamonds, potash and phosphate
  • Environmental impact assessments (EIAs)
  • Marine geoscience database
  • Wreck surveys
  • Marine engineering site surveys
  • Coastal and estuarine sediment dynamics
  • Scientific diving surveys
  • Research in the offshore environment

Core Competencies:

  • Marine engineering – site surveys
  • Project Management
  • Quality control on projects
  • Marine Geophysical surveying and data processing
  • Mapping
  • Sediment dynamics
  • GIS capability
  • Mentoring

GEOLOGICAL MAPPING

Core Focus Areas:

  • Regional lithostratigraphic geological mapping at various scales, nationally and internationally
  • Site specific geological mapping to assist applied geosciences
  • Sedimentological studies and basin analysis
  • Soil and palaeosol classification and mapping
  • Structural, metamorphic and igneous investigations in complex geological terrains
  • Compiling national and international thematic maps
  • Remote sensing of geological terrains
  • Research and publication at international level

Core Competencies:

  • Research capability
  • Field mapping experience
  • Geological and structural mapping
  • 3 D mapping
  • Project Management of large national and international mapping projects
  • Quality control on projects
  • Age dating, geochemistry, microprobe and other related analytical techniques
  • Remote sensing experience especially in respect of use and interpretation in geological mapping.
  • Mentoring

ENVIRONMENTAL GEOSCIENCE

Core Focus Areas:

  • Environmental investigations
  • Environmental impact assessment
  • Mine environmental management plans
  • Pollution investigations
  • Risk assessments
  • Laboratory services
  • Batch and Kinetic leach testing
  • Environmental geoscience related research

Core Competencies:

  • Environmental investigations
  • Environmental impact assessments and remediation
  • Scientific research
  • Mapping
  • Project management
  • Quality control on projects
  • Mentoring

MINERALS RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

Core Focus Areas:

  • Mineral commodity reports and maps for specific purposes
  • Assistance to small scale miners
  • Mapping and sampling of ore deposits
  • Industrial minerals
  • Maintenance of COREDATA and COAL databases
  • Maintenance of the SAMINDABA mineral – deposits database
  • Mineralogical and physical characterization of mineral deposits

Core Competencies:

  • Metallogenic mapping and other site-specific investigations
  • Map compilation and commodity reports
  • Thematic geoscience research
  • Industrial minerals and coal geology
  • Database maintenance and ore deposits data archiving
  • Mineral target generation and prioritization
  • Application of modern data mining techniques for geological applications
  • Project management
  • Quality control on projects
  • Mentoring

SPATIAL DATA MANAGEMENT

Core Focus Areas:

  • Standard or customized GIS products and data sets
  • Cartographic production of maps as well as cutomised products for clients
  • Managing the GEODE corporate database, which is used to curate spatial referenced geoscientific data

Core Competencies:

  • Cartography
  • Remote sensing
  • GIS
  • Database (e.g. Orale, SDE, SQL, Sever) development and maintenance
  • Quality management
  • Project management
  • Quality control on projects
  • Mentoring

LABORATORY

Core Focus Areas:

  • Mineralogy and petrology
  • Basic and detailed petrographic descriptions
  • Scanning electron microscope (SEM) and electron microprobe analysis
  • X-Ray Diffractometry (XRD)
  • Qualitative and quantitative mineral composition of all types of rocks and soils
  • Reflection and transmission methods
  • X – Ray fluorescence (XRF)
  • Rare earth element analysis
  • Water analysis
  • Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP – MS) analysis
  • Regional geochemical mapping

Core Competencies:

  • Regional geochemical soil/ stream sediment sampling
  • Compilation of geochemical data sets and maps
  • Geochemical interpretation
  • Scientific research
  • Mineralogy
  • Petrology
  • Project management
  • Quality control on projects
  • Mentoring

For future positions in either of the above fields post your CV to: careers@geoscience.org.za

Current Vacancies

The CGS offers different career opportunities either in sciences or in a support function. New positions are made available from time to time and prospective employees are urged to contact us for vacant positions, which are advertised HERE. .

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