
51 - 200 employees
Founded 2019
🤖 Artificial Intelligence
🔬 Science
⚡ Energy
Artificial Intelligence • Science • Energy
KoBold Metals is a company specializing in advanced mineral exploration. By investing over $100 million annually across 60+ projects on five continents, KoBold is at the forefront of using artificial intelligence and novel hardware to transform mineral exploration into a repeatable science. The company aggregates comprehensive data on the Earth's crust and utilizes proprietary AI tools, including the Machine Prospector® system, to minimize uncertainties in exploration. KoBold Metals is committed to ethical exploration practices and is backed by world-class investors dedicated to discovering and developing new battery metal resources. Their innovative approach leverages AI to build the world's largest geoscience information collection and model subsurface data statistically.
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51 - 200 employees
Founded 2019
🤖 Artificial Intelligence
🔬 Science
⚡ Energy
Artificial Intelligence • Science • Energy
KoBold Metals is a company specializing in advanced mineral exploration. By investing over $100 million annually across 60+ projects on five continents, KoBold is at the forefront of using artificial intelligence and novel hardware to transform mineral exploration into a repeatable science. The company aggregates comprehensive data on the Earth's crust and utilizes proprietary AI tools, including the Machine Prospector® system, to minimize uncertainties in exploration. KoBold Metals is committed to ethical exploration practices and is backed by world-class investors dedicated to discovering and developing new battery metal resources. Their innovative approach leverages AI to build the world's largest geoscience information collection and model subsurface data statistically.
• Serve as the primary technical authority for the Mingomba copper project through design and construction • Hold end-to-end accountability for engineering quality, integrity, and integration across the owner's team, EPCM, and specialist contractors • Report to the Project Director and make binding technical decisions across disciplines • Establish and enforce the basis of design, engineering standards, and design criteria • Own and drive resolution of the technical risk register • Approve key engineering deliverables, including P&IDs, design criteria, equipment datasheets, and technical specifications • Direct scope freeze and prevent scope growth after sanction • Direct EPCM and specialist contractor technical performance and monitor progress using earned value metrics • Lead constructability, operability, maintainability, and value engineering reviews • Own engineering integration, resolve inter-discipline conflicts, and manage shared interfaces • Prepare and present engineering cases for stage-gate reviews • Oversee project change control and manage technical, cost, and schedule impacts • Integrate lessons learned from comparable projects • Manage engineering interfaces with stakeholders, regulators, infrastructure providers, and Zambian technical authorities • Own the engineering dimension of process safety, including HAZOPs, HAZIDs, SIL assessments, and process safety reviews • Act as design authority for safety-critical systems and provide engineering input to safety cases and regulatory submissions • Establish engineering data management, version control, handover protocols, and deliverables registers • Direct engineering quality plans, hold points, witness points, and independent reviews • Build and lead the KoBold engineering team, define resourcing, recruit or second staff, and mentor senior engineers • Embed operational readiness requirements into design
• 18+ years of professional engineering experience in major capital projects in mining, minerals processing, oil and gas, or equivalent heavy industry • Significant experience as the lead engineering authority on the owner's side • Track record delivering projects through the full lifecycle from FEED to mechanical completion • At least one project above $700M total capital cost • Deep experience managing and directing EPCM contractors • Strong multi-discipline technical foundation across civil/structural, mechanical, process, electrical, and instrumentation disciplines • Capability in constructability reviews, operability reviews, value engineering, and HAZOP/HAZID facilitation • Experience developing and executing engineering management plans, technical risk registers, design basis documents, and stage-gate technical submissions • Exposure to earned value management, engineering progress measurement, and performance reporting in an owner's team context • Strong communication and influencing skills • Bachelor's degree (or higher) in an engineering discipline • Ability and willingness to travel internationally to Zambia, with anticipated travel of 90+ days per year • Chartered Engineer status or equivalent professional registration strongly preferred • Experience with Mine Processing and Infrastructure is an advantage • Experience in African or similarly complex operating environments is an advantage
• Equal opportunity workplace and affirmative-action employer • International travel to Zambia, anticipated 90+ days per year
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