About the Company
KoBold Metals Zambia Limited is a Zambian-led company exploring for the ore deposits that will become the next generation of new mines in Zambia.
KoBold Metals Zambia is the Zambian affiliate of KoBold Metals, a U.S.-based company exploring around the world for battery metals using proprietary AI to guide exploration decisions. Our business is discovering, defining, expanding, and developing mineral resources, and our objective is to achieve a step-change improvement in exploration success resulting in more tier 1 resources discovered faster, with fewer failures, and with far less exploration capital.
KoBold is privately held, and its investors include institutional asset managers T. Rowe Price and Canada Pension Plan Investments; technology venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz, Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BOND Capital, Standard Investments, and Sam Altman’s Apollo Projects; and leading natural resources companies Equinor, Mitsubishi, and BHP.
KoBold Metals Zambia is building a rapidly growing team of Zambian geologists, operators, and executives to identify, acquire, explore, and develop exploration opportunities and mineral resources drawing upon KoBold’s technology and the expertise of colleagues worldwide.
About The Role:
The Shaft Sinking Engineer will be responsible for the management and coordination of all engineering activities associated with the entire mine shaft infrastructure for the Mingomba Mine Project. You will be responsible for input into the prefeasibility and feasibility stages of the project through to construction and commissioning. You will also be responsible for monitoring the performance of shaft sinking contractors and reviewing variations where applicable. You will be responsible for building and fostering a collaborative relationship with all stakeholders including consultants, peer reviewers, and suppliers. You must have knowledge of hard rock mining, shaft sinking and equipping activities, drilling and blasting and shaft systems. You must advise the Company on emerging shaft technologies and collaborate with other engineering disciplines to achieve the success of Mingomba Mine.
You will join an outstanding team of geoscientists, data scientists, and software engineers. You will be a core part of the project teams, advancing the science and practice of exploration. You will help develop novel data collection and monitoring programs.
Reporting to the Project Controls Manager, the responsibilities of this position include:
- Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team covering electrical, mechanical and civil engineering disciplines.
- Recommend the purchase of shaft equipment necessary to achieve the mine plan.
- Oversee Shaft Sinking Contractors’ work and ensure alignment to overall company objectives
- Coordinate active quality management; concrete pre-pour inspections, verticality surveys, as built surveys.
- Estimate and Lead projects to completion in a timely manner.
- Management of site mobile and fixed plant for Shaft Operations
- Ensure compliance with engineering legal requirements
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement of productivity and reliability
- Compliance with Health, Environment and Safety rules and procedures.
- Provide effective and accurate reporting.
- The ability to lead others by setting direction and building alignment.
Qualifications
Our ideal candidate will have
- A Master’s degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering or related field
- Atleast 15 years of experience in the management and maintenance of winders and vertical shafts including extensive knowledge of shaft maintenance and hoisting plant operation
- Held a central role on large Shaft Sinking Projects
- Qualifications or Certification in Shaft Sinking
- Detailed understanding of shaft sinking operations and demonstrate vast knowledge on support methods and basic strata control
- Detailed mining engineering skills including ventilation, rock mechanics, explosives, cost evaluation, mining methods, etc.
- Proficiency in mining software and technology
- Excellent communication and leadership skills
- Strong workshop management, maintenance and administration
- Strong knowledge of mining regulations
- Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
In addition to the above, you will have:
- Registered with the Engineering Institute of Zambia (EIZ) or a recognized engineering body
- Ability to work in a multicultural environment
- Possess the ability to analyze and understand complex technical information
- Good leadership and motivational skills, with the ability to get work done through others
- Good knowledge of construction techniques, requirements, and shaft operations.
- Good understanding of field requirements and conditions
We are committed to equal employment opportunities for all people.
This position is a full-time contract role.
Currently, we are only accepting applications from Zambian nationals.
Location: Chililabombwe, Zambia.
