Project Database Administrator (Sydney)

Project Database Administrator (Sydney)

21 Oct
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Sandfire Resources
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Sydney

21 Oct

Sandfire Resources

Sydney

Sandfire continues to make robust progress toward its goal of being a sustainable mining company and global copper producer of significance and is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: SFR).

Headquartered in Perth, Western Australia,Sandfire hasa demonstrated commitment to the highest safety standards. Our strategy is focused on both near-mine and regional opportunities as weseektoleverageour strategic position in the Iberian Pyrite Belt in Spain and the Kalahari Copper Belt inBotswana andmaterially increase the life of our modern processing hubs.
Sandfire Resources has recently entered an exciting partnership with Havilah Resources to advance the Kalkaroo Copper-Gold Project in South Australia.

Sandfire has an opening for an experienced Project Database Administrator with strong background in Geology within the mining industry, to join our talented team of professionals.

Reporting to the Senior Database Coordinator, this position is a core technical specialist responsible for the architecture, management, and continuous improvement of geological data systems supporting global exploration and mining operations. The role of Project Database Administrator is expected to exercise a high degree of technical independence in solving complex data challenges, architecting automation initiatives, and mentoring regional teams within the Innovation & Technology framework.

Sandfire continues to make strong progress toward its goal of being a sustainable mining company and global copper producer of significance and is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: SFR).

Headquartered in Perth, Western Australia,Sandfire hasa demonstrated commitment to the highest safety standards.



Our strategy is focused on both near-mine and regional opportunities as weseektoleverageour strategic position in the Iberian Pyrite Belt in Spain and the Kalahari Copper Belt inBotswana andmaterially increase the life of our modern processing hubs.
Sandfire Resources has recently entered an exciting partnership with Havilah Resources to advance the Kalkaroo Copper-Gold Project in South Australia.

Sandfire has an opening for an experienced Project Database Administrator with strong background in Geology within the mining industry, to join our talented team of professionals.

Reporting to the Senior Database Coordinator, this position is a core technical specialist responsible for the architecture, management, and continuous improvement of geological data systems supporting global exploration and mining operations. The role of Project Database Administrator is expected to exercise a high degree of technical independence in solving complex data challenges, architecting automation initiatives, and mentoring regional teams within the Innovation & Technology framework.

As a key driver of our Innovation & Technology Strategy, the Project Database Administrator helps transition Sandfire's Exploration function into a predictive, data-driven environment. You will manage complex data connections and act as the technical custodian for global geological databases by building automated data ingestion workflows. Additionally,



you will support technology enablement by maintaining our enterprise exploration software ecosystem, and champion new ways of working by mentoring global database administrators to reduce key-person dependency and uplift team capability.
Duties/ Responsibilities (include but are not limited to):

- Unified Geoscience Drillhole Database & System Ownership: Act as a technical custodian for critical geological databases globally, in particular the Sandfire’s Exploration drillhole database. Design and manage assay export and data-flattening logic to support modelling in Leapfrog, Micromine, and other related software and machine learning analytics. Manage the compilation and loading of geological, collar, survey, sampling, and assay data into SQL databases, ensuring best-practice QAQC frameworks are continuously developed and upheld. Support major database migrations and system transitions.
- Automated, End-to-End Data Pipelines: Independently identify, design, and implement advanced automation solutions including Python-based automated DH Survey, Geology Logging, and Sampling imports
- Data Architecture & Governance: Optimise queries, SQL views, and processes for system scalability and high performance. Prepare spatial data pipelines for GIS use and advanced initiatives.
- Platform-Enabled Collaboration & Data Sharing: Establish and maintain secure, robust data sharing frameworks between the various mining and projects teams, including ownership of mine data sharing processes (Mining and Exploration data).
- Consolidated Application Ecosystem: Maintain, integrate, and continuously improve software configurations (Geobank, Geobank For Field Teams, Datashed, Tower, IMAGO, SQL Se

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