Field Hydrogeologist

About the Company

KoBold Metals Zambia Limited is a Zambian-led company exploring for 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 position

Reporting to the Studies Coordinators, your role as a Hydrogeology Technician, will be to support technical field work projects for the technical and operations teams by collecting, managing and analyzing data from testing, mainly all site hydrogeological, hydrology, and geotechnical type tests. You will be responsible for both data and equipment required. You will ensure data and equipment availability at all times, collaborating with all the required parties. 

You will download, upload, report and analyze the technical data collected for hydrogeology and hydrology studies. You will be required to work in the field as well as in the office, but always on-site.

Responsibilities

• Oversee all technical field work required by technical and operations teams.
• Responsible for all hydrogeology data from tests, this includes storage, management, analysis and timely reports to all internal stakeholders
• Ensure stock is counted (all hydro equipment) and the numbers available to management (weekly)
• Daily check all the transducer units and loggers (check if operational, download and check data, confirm with benchmarks that OK)
• Collaborate with the engineering, geology, data science teams
• Daily ensure all the loggers are communicating with gateway correctly
• If required manually download all the loggers data
• Be present and assist, document and record all during transducer installations and drill stem injection tests
• Weekly measure of the groundwater level in each open hole, communicating with the drilling staff
• Be available to collect and analyze the data for the environmental impact assessments of groundwater abstraction and management activities
• Support geotechnical work on drill core, by conducting RQD logging for all engineering activities
• Work with Geotechnical consultants on all planned word
• Manage and maintain IT-related testing equipment
• Partner with Field Operations team for support

Qualifications

The candidate must have:

• Bachelor of Mineral Science in Geology, Bachelor of Engineering in Geotechnical Engineering or other related field.
• 1-3 years of experience with hydrogeological studies including tests and specific equipment usage
• Member of the EIZ

We are committed to equal employment opportunities for all people.

This position is a full-time contract role.

At this time, we are only accepting applications from Zambian nationals.

Location:    Copperbelt, Zambia.