Senior Engineering & Integration Manager

KoBold Metals · Remote

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • Posted 2026-09-01
  • Confirmed live on 25 September 2026

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Job description

Senior Engineering & Integration Manager

About the company:

In the coming decades, our world needs far more critical minerals including 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 the leading scientific mineral exploration, mine development, and technology development company. Our goal is to turn mineral exploration into a repeatable science to discover the minerals the world needs—by integrating artificial intelligence, human intelligence, and new technology. Our multidisciplinary teams of data scientists, engineers, and geologists work together to build data systems, design new sensors, and establish industry-leading workflows to develop and test subsurface predictions on our exploration projects.

Our first discovery, Mingomba, is a high-grade copper deposit in Zambia, found after spending materially less than industry average. We are developing Mingomba with the same technical rigor that we apply to exploration. The Mingomba team brings together mine and processing engineers, geologists, data scientists, software engineers, and community, health & safety, construction, and operations specialists. By combining industry knowledge and cutting edge technology, we are developing Mingomba into a world class project that has safer and more predictable outcomes for ourselves, partners, and communities. It is expected to create thousands of good jobs for generations.

KoBold runs exploration programs in eight countries, all with the potential for another 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, 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.

The successful candidate will be judged on:

• Engineering delivered on time, within sanction cost, and to the standard required for safe, operable, and maintainable facilities.

• A design that has been constructability-reviewed, value-engineered, and operability-tested before it is frozen.

• An EPCM that is technically directed, not just administered, with KoBold holding design authority.

• A project that passes independent technical assurance reviews and stage-gate approvals without material qualification.

• A technical risk register that is live, owned, and actively driven down.

Key responsibilities

Technical authority and design governance

• Hold and exercise design authority on behalf of KoBold. Making and recording binding technical decisions across all disciplines, with a clear escalation path to the Project Director for issues that affect schedule, cost, or safety.

• Establish the basis of design, engineering standards, and design criteria for the project, and enforce them with both the owner's team and the EPCM.

• Own the technical risk register: identify, quantify, and drive the resolution of engineering risks before they become scope changes or construction rework.

• Approve key engineering deliverables including P&IDs, design criteria, equipment datasheets, and technical specifications.

• Direct the scope freeze process: define what decisions must be made to freeze design at each stage, own the timeline for th

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