Senior Engineering & Integration Manager
About the company:
In the coming decades, our world needs substantially more critical minerals such as copper, lithium, and cobalt, to build electric infrastructure, vehicles, data centers, and electronics. The mining industry is making 10x fewer discoveries per dollar spent on exploration compared to 30 years ago, because the easy-to-find, near surface deposits have largely been discovered.
KoBold is a leading scientific mineral exploration, mine development, and technology development company. Our goal is to turn mineral exploration into a repeatable science to make discoveries faster—by integrating artificial intelligence, human intelligence, and new technology. We made our first discovery—Mingomba, one of the world’s largest undeveloped high-grade copper deposits—after spending materially less than the industry average. This asset is expected to operate for decades, and be a leading global copper supplier. KoBold is actively running exploration programs in 8 countries worldwide, all with the potential for another high-quality discovery.
We are developing Mingomba by applying the same technical rigor to resource development and mine planning as we do to exploration. Mingomba is also a scientific laboratory where we prototype new technology and workflows, combined with the expertise of veteran engineers. Our multidisciplinary team consists of mine and processing engineers, geologists, data scientists, software engineers, community, health & safety, construction, and operations specialists. We want to develop world-class mining projects that are safer and have more predictable outcomes for ourselves, partners, and communities.
KoBold is privately held; investors include institutional asset managers T. Rowe Price and Canada Pension Plan Investments; technology venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BOND Capital, Durable Capital, StepStone, and Standard Investments; and strategic natural resources companies BHP and Mitsubishi.
About the role
This is a senior Engineering leadership role for the development of a significant Copper mining complex in Zambia. The Mingomba deposit contains over 10 million tonnes of copper more than half of which exceeds 6% grade. This role will help turn that world class deposit into a world class mine.
The Senior Engineering & Integration Manager is the primary technical authority for the Mingomba copper project through its design and construction phase. Reporting to the Project Director, this role carries end-to-end accountability for the quality, integrity, and integration of all engineering across the owner's team, the EPCM and specialist contractors. The role is the technical decision-maker and design authority for the project, responsible for safeguarding Kobold’s interests through stage gates, design reviews, and construction handover to operations. The Senior Engineering & Integration Manager sets the direction for engineering delivery, resolves complex cross-discipline technical issues, and directly influences how the Mingomba project is designed and built.
What this role is accountable for delivering
This role exists to ensure against common failure modes on major capital projects, with particular emphasis on scope creep driven by unresolved technical decisions, design quality that does not survive construction, and an owner's team that cannot effectively challenge or govern its engineering service providers.
Key responsibilities
Technical authority and design governance
EPCM direction and performance management
Constructability, operability, and value engineering
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