Director, Exploration

Socket.dev; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement savings plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Life & accident insurance

Discretionary bonus program

Job summary

Coeur Mining, a growing North American precious metals producer, is seeking a seasoned exploration leader. This role can be remote in the USA or Canada with regular travel to sites and the Chicago head office.

You will oversee greenfields and brownfields exploration programs across multiple US and Canadian sites in alignment with company priorities. Reporting to the Senior Director of Exploration, you will mentor teams, design exploration strategies, manage budgets, ensure QA/QC, and collaborate

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Geology required.
• Advanced degree in mineral economics or geology would be beneficial.
• Highly field oriented with hands-on approach and mentorship to improve team capability.
• Strong execution discipline and ownership; collaborative across departments.

Responsibilities

• Mentor, coach, and develop exploration teams with an inclusive leadership style.
• Deliver greenfields and brownfields exploration programs across sites.
• Drive design and improvement of exploration strategies with robust targets.
• Ensure programs align with objectives, standards, budgets, and timelines.
• Maintain high-quality geological models by integrating drilling, geological, and geotechnical data.
• Identify gaps and drive timely corrective actions to improve understanding.
• Apply industry best practices in exploration activities across sites.
• Communicate program context, risks, and opportunities to stakeholders.
• Coordinate with permitting, environmental, specialists, and partners.

Skills

Geology

Leadership

Budget management

Mentorship

Cross-functional collaboration

Data interpretation

Team development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Geology

Advanced degree in mineral economics or geology

Job description

Make an impact at all-North American precious metals producer. New Gold is now part of Coeur Mining. Visit www.coeur.com to learn more.

Coeur Mining attracts and hires highly skilled individuals. By joining our team, you can look forward to:

• A stimulating values-based work environment
• A culture of collaboration and inclusion
• Inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• Career development opportunities
• A deeply rooted commitment to responsible mining, health and safety and community engagement
• A competitive total compensation program
• A comprehensive benefits package including a retirement savings plan

About Coeur Mining:

Coeur Mining is a growing, all-North American precious metals producer with seven operations: the Las Chispas silver-gold mine and Palmarejo gold-silver complex in Mexico, the Rochester silver gold mine in Nevada, the Kensington gold mine in Alaska, the Wharf gold mine in South Dakota, the Rainy River gold mine in Ontario, Canada, and the New Afton copper-gold mine in British Columbia, Canada. In addition, Coeur owns the Silvertip silver-zinc-lead exploration project in British Columbia.

Coeur offers a flexible, hybrid work model and a culture built on safety, collaboration, and real opportunities to develop your career for those who want to grow alongside a company that is doing the same.

Position Overview

*This role can be remote USA or Canada

Reporting to the Senior Director of Exploration, this position will be remote with regular travel to sites and head office in Chicago. The Director, Exploration will oversee the Company’s greenfields and brownfields exploration programs in two of Coeur’s exploration sites in the US & Canada

Key Responsibilities

• Mentor, coach, and develop exploration teams through an inclusive leadership style that fosters technical rigor, geological curiosity, and a high-performing, team-oriented culture. Build capability across teams and ensure consistent leadership and performance standards across sites.
• Accountable for the successful delivery of greenfields and brownfields exploration programs across sites, ensuring programs are effectively designed, prioritized, and executed to advance orebody knowledge, generate high-quality targets, and deliver exploration value.
• Drive the design and continuous improvement of exploration strategies, including advanced modeling and conceptual targeting, ensuring teams integrate diverse datasets to generate and rank robust drill targets aligned with company priorities.
• Ensure exploration programs are executed in alignment with company objectives, standards, and timelines, maintaining strong oversight of program performance, budget discipline, and capital efficiency to maximize return on exploration investment.
• Establish and maintain high-quality geological models by ensuring teams effectively interpret and integrate drilling, geological, and geotechnical data, and apply sound mineralization theories to support resource growth and decision-making.
• Identify performance, data, or interpretation gaps across projects and drive timely corrective actions, ensuring continuous improvement in geological understanding, targeting effectiveness, and program execution.
• Ensure the consistent application of industry best practices across all exploration activities (including drilling, sampling, mapping, QAQC, and modeling), driving standardization, quality, and knowledge transfer across sites.
• Analyze exploration performance against targets and ensure insights are translated into actionable improvements, guiding teams to resolve technical challenges and maintain program momentum.
• Ensure compliance with all legal, regulatory, and company requirements, while reinforcing a strong culture of accountability, safety, and operational discipline across exploration activities.
• Drive a high-performing and aligned team culture by setting clear expectations for communication, collaboration, and accountability across exploration teams and with cross-functional partners, proactively resolving friction points to maintain a solutions-focused and performance-oriented environment.
• Act as a key interface between exploration and broader business stakeholders, including General Managers and peer Director-level leaders across departments, effectively communicating program context, risks, dependencies, and opportunities to enable alignment, timely decisions, and successful program advancement.
• Strengthen coordination with internal and external stakeholders, including permitting, environmental, technical specialists, consultants, contractors, and strategic partners, ensuring exploration programs are aligned with broader operational and business requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Geology.
• Advanced degree in mineral economics or geology would be beneficial
• Highly field oriented and hand-on approach and known for improving team capability through mentorship
• Demonstrates strong execution discipline and ownership
• Collaborative and able to work effectively across exploration, operations, technical services and corporate leadership
• 15+ years global exploration experience including brownfields and greenfields.
• At least 5 years in a management position.
• A proven track record of cost-effective exploration & discovery and a passion for geology and a desire to find world class orebodies.
• An excellent understanding of geological environments, deposit models, and ore-forming processes as pertains to the latest concepts of gold deposit environments.
• An ability to think across-scales and to integrate diverse, large datasets for robust target generation and ranking.
• In-depth knowledge of epithermal deposit models and styles of mineral occurrences and an in-depth knowledge of exploration techniques, in particular geophysics and geochemistry.
• Focused and dedicated with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to manage difficult situations. The successful candidate must have excellent communication skills as well as the ability to work with multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent report writing and presentation skills.

The salary range offered for this role is USD $210,000 - $215,000 range. The salary range is a good-faith estimate. The salary offer to the successful candidate will be based on job-related education, training, and/or experience. The salary offer will not be based on a candidate’s salary history at other jobs, and by law, Coeur Mining will not seek information about salary history, and candidates should not share such information with Coeur Mining. Coeur Mining provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits, health benefits, paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Coeur Mining also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.