Job description
About the company:
The mining industry has steadily become worse at finding new ore deposits, requiring >10X more capital to make discoveries compared to 30 years ago. The easy-to-find, near-surface deposits have largely been found, and the industry has chronically under-invested in new exploration technology, relying on the manual techniques of yesteryear – even as demand accelerates for copper, lithium, and other metals to build electric vehicles, renewable energy, and data centers.
KoBold builds AI models for mineral exploration and deploys those models—alongside our novel sensors—to guide decisions on KoBold-owned-and-operated exploration programs. In the six years since founding, KoBold has become by far both the largest independent mineral exploration company and the largest exploration technology developer. Our data scientists and software engineers, who come from leading technology companies, jointly lead exploration programs with our renowned exploration geologists.
KoBold has proven its first discovery with materially less capital than the industry average and found one of the best copper deposits ever discovered: the copper is far more concentrated than the global average of copper mines, and this asset alone is expected to generate meaningful revenue for decades. KoBold has a portfolio of more than 60 other projects, each of which has the potential for another high-quality discovery.
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, and Standard Investments; and natural resources companies Equinor, BHP, and Mitsubishi.
We are hiring a Director, Geology (DRC) to help accelerate our mission, drawing upon KoBold’s technology and the expertise of colleagues worldwide.
About the position
KoBold ® is looking for a highly motivated and experienced Geologist who will be part of our multidisciplinary exploration team, reporting to the Global VP of Geology. In this role, you will be part of the core team responsible for planning and conducting exploration programs on our properties in Democratic Republic of Congo. You will help develop new targets and plans to test them and will oversee drilling, data collection on drill core, and other field activities from soil sampling to geophysical surveys. You will work closely with both geologists and data scientists in Democratic Republic of Congo and around the world to help design and implement our proprietary software tools to get insights from geoscience data and to guide exploration programs in real time. You will be a key part of the team that puts these insights into practice in making exploration decisions in the field.
Work Location: Remote, Democratic Republic of Congo based.
Responsibilities
The Director of Geology will:
- Have expertise in sediment-hosted copper deposits or felsic igneous systems
- Help plan and oversee early-stage exploration programes
- Oversee and ensure the highest standards in geological drill core logging
- Be responsible for management of geologic staff in DRC
- Handle management of drilling campaigns alongside Drilling Manager
- Meet company objectives in discovery of new deposits
- Perform a range of geological analyses to generate and refine targets and geologic models resulting from the data collection programs
- Work collaboratively with data scientists and provide mentorship to geology team members
- Drive the individual and collective talent development of KoBold Metal’s DRC’s Geology team
- Offer leadership and mentorship to local Geologists and Data Scientists
- Lead due diligence reviews of advanced and complex projects
- Generate opportunities and exploration strategies at regional and district scales, integrating all types of geoscientific information
- Have advanced capability in using diverse datasets for generative purposes and hypothesis development
- Guide documents and presentations of colleagues to the highest standard
- Track record of training and mentoring staff members at varying levels in all aspects project generation, reconnaissance, and resource development
Qualifications
A great Director of Geology candidate will have:
- At least 15 years of experience in exploration or production environments, with experience in sediment-hosted copper mineral systems advantageous
- Significant advanced project experience with exposure to resource development and technical studies requirements
- Strong leadership skills including the ability to motivate and inspire others, to share ownership and responsibility for project outcomes, and to work effectively in collaborative, interdisciplinary teams
- Familiarity with international reporting standards
- Professional registration with an internationally recognized body
- Excellent communication, management, and reporting skills
- Ability to use geoscience data to think predictively and insightfully about exploration targeting
- Experience planning and supervising multiple exploration programs
- Insatiable intellectual curiosity
- Good computer skills including working knowledge of QGIS and Leapfrog Geo
We are committed to equal employment opportunities for all people.
This position is a permanent position.
Location: Candidates must be Democratic Republic of Congo based and must be legally eligible to work in Democratic Republic of Congo and have a valid Driver’s license
At this time we are only accepting applications from DRC nationals.
