Location: Perth, WA or Brisbane, QLD

Time type: Full time

About Imvelo

Imvelo is building the next generation of strategic mine planning software. blueprint, our cloud-based optimisation platform, changes how mining companies plan their operations and unlock value. We’re a small, specialist team working with some of the industry’s leading miners, and we’re growing.

The role

We’re looking for an operational geologist to lead client work using blueprint. You’ll run engagements end to end, owning the scope, the analysis and the client relationship. On larger engagements, you’ll be the geology subject matter expert in a multidisciplinary team, shaping the outcome alongside mining engineers and other technical specialists.

Key duties

- Lead client engagements using blueprint, from scoping through to delivery
- Provide geology SME expertise on larger engagements and to the broader team
- Turn orebody knowledge, grade control and mineral economics into optimisation models and practical recommendations
- Contribute geological input to blueprint’s development
- Present findings to client technical and leadership teams

Experience: essential

- 5 to 10 years as an operational geologist, with time on underground operations
- Gold and/or copper experience preferred
- Hands-on grade control, ore definition and reconciliation
- A clear understanding of mineral economics: how cut-off grade, dilution,



recovery and metal price drive value
- A track record of geological work that changed mining decisions, not just informed reports

Experience: desirable

- Exposure to mine planning, scheduling or resource estimation (Deswik, Datamine, Vulcan, Leapfrog or similar)
- Technical services, corporate or consulting experience
- Solid data skills in Excel, Python, SQL or similar
- Experience presenting to senior site or corporate leadership
- Some exploration geology experience would be desirable
- Intrinsically numerate/quantitative skills and interest
- Studies experience – taking a project through exploration to PFS

Essential qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Geology

You’ll thrive here if you

- Think beyond the next stope to the whole life of mine
- Want to see how your geology drives value across the full mining chain
- Like the pace and ownership of a small business

Why join us

- A small business where your work is visible and your input shapes the product
- Learn from industry technical experts in other areas of mining
- Real room to grow your skills and career beyond a traditional site role

How to apply

- Apply through LinkedIn with your CV and a short note (half a page is plenty) answering: Tell us about a time your geological work changed a mining or investment decision.

Applications close 1st December 2026.

📌 Operational Geologist (Underground) (Perth)
🏢 Imvelo
📍 Perth