Junior Geologist, Exploration

**Description**:
Reporting to the Senior Geologist and Exploration Manager, the Junior Geologist will contribute to drill programs across NexGen’s land claims with the objective of economic uranium discovery. The incumbent will participate and contribute as part of a multi-disciplinary team to plan and execute drill program(s) with a strong focus on health and safety.

**Location**

This position will be based in the Saskatoon office along with a regular rotation to the Project site during drilling campaigns.

**Key Responsibilities (including but not limited to)**:

- Engage in and supervise geological work including core logging, sample collection, and QA/QC to ensure exploration best practices.
- Interpretation and reporting of geological data, developing geological models, and working with the Exploration Team to advance project understanding.
- Planning drill hole locations and to effectively test targets as directed.
- Completing required weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports.
- Complete field work to ensure drill programs are conducted to high standards.
- Other duties as assigned.

**Skills, Knowledge and Expertise**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Geology is required.
- Experience in mineral exploration preferred.
- Strong understanding of geological software and databases (Leapfrog, ArcGIS, Geosoft, acQuire).
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with experience in working with a broad range of people.
- Comfortable working field rotations to support drill programs in remote locations.
- Proven commitment to workplace safety and demonstrates safety leadership.
- Valid Class 5 Drivers License.

**Core Competencies**:
**Communication**:

- Communicates with impact to inform, enroll, coach and inspire. Effectively builds rapport and appropriately delivers information in a timely, well organized, thoughtful and engaging manner so it is understood using speech or in writing. Communicates in an open, candid and consistent manner.

**Team Effectiveness**:

- Works collaboratively across functional teams that embraces unique talents and diverse perspectives to achieve common goals. Actively participates as a prepared team member, demonstrating flexibility and respect for different workstyles. Pro-active approach to building relationships.

**Work Management**:

- Plans, manages, and follows through to ensure the flow and timely completion of activities that deliver successful work results. Maintains quality and safety standards to ensure work is completed according to standards. Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability.

**Personal Accountability**:

- Takes responsibility for own actions and outcomes. Maintains effective work behavior in the face of setbacks or pressure; remains calm, stable, and in control of emotions; and demonstrates resilience in the face of adversity.

**Analytical/Critical Thinking**:

- Identifies underlying issues in complex situations. Able to easily explain complex ideas. Provides clear and useful explanations. Provides information required to make effective decisions in line with company objectives. Builds a logical approach to problem solving and anticipates possible consequences of decisions. Uses creative, conceptual, and/or inductive reasoning.

**Functional & Technical Skills**:

- Applies specialized knowledge in own area of expertise and openly shares information, knowledge and expertise with others.

**About NexGen Energy**:
NexGen Energy is a Canadian company focused on optimally developing the Rook I Project into the largest, low-cost producing uranium mine globally, incorporating the highest levels of environmental and social governance. The Company has a strong portfolio of highly prospective projects, including the Company's 100% owned Rook I property that is host to the high-grade Arrow Deposit (discovered February, 2014), South Arrow (discovered July, 2017), Harpoon (discovered August, 2016), Bow (discovered March, 2015), and the Cannon area (discovered April, 2016).

NexGen is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol NXE and on the Australian Securities Exchange under the ticker symbol NXG, and is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, with an operations office in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.