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Owns production data systems end to end, including data models, ETL and API integrations, applications, platform maintenance, data quality, governance, and technical debt. Supports OPSDB and exploration operations, improves reliability and alerting, documents systems, collaborates with cross-functional and nontechnical stakeholders, and mentors junior analysts. The role also supports procurement and inventory initiatives, works with geologists, and requires occasional international travel to exploration sites.

Leads engineering design authority and integration for a major copper mining project through FEED, construction, and handover. Directs EPCM performance, establishes design standards, manages technical risks, approves key engineering deliverables, and leads constructability, operability, value engineering, process safety, stage-gate, change control, quality, and technical assurance activities. Builds the owner’s engineering team and ensures designs are safe, operable, maintainable, cost-effective, and ready for operations.

Leads commercial strategy for a multibillion-dollar copper mining project in Zambia. Owns delivery model, contracting, procurement, tendering, negotiations, contract administration, contractor performance, supply chain, logistics, local content, cost forecasting, claims, risk transfer, insurance, and commercial closeout. Builds and directs multidisciplinary commercial, contracting, procurement, and supply chain teams while ensuring governance, ethical sourcing, schedule adherence, cost control, audit readiness, and transition to operations.

Develop and deploy mineral exploration instruments, sensor systems, data acquisition methods, and proprietary software. Integrate geospatial, geophysical, geochemical, geological, and geographic data; build statistically rigorous and physics-based models; identify ore-forming anomalies; and generate 2D and 3D exploration predictions. Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, geoscientists, vendors, and external partners to design field programs, deploy sensors, reduce uncertainty, and guide exploration decisions.

Lead business development to secure exploration, development, and mining assets. Manage and execute deals, coordinate technical underwriting and due diligence, build commercial offers and term sheets, negotiate commercial contract terms with legal, and cultivate long-term counterparty relationships while overseeing a BD team and preparing internal investment memoranda.

Develop and enhance software solutions for mineral exploration, collaborating with geologists and data scientists, and driving insights from data systems.

Build and maintain intuitive frontend web applications for data upload, search, visualization, and interactive 2D/3D geospatial tools. Collaborate with scientists to design complex visualizations, modernize the frontend stack, mentor junior developers, and implement automated UI testing and deployment pipelines.

The role involves building decision science libraries and tools for mineral exploration, collaborating with teams to improve decision-making processes.

Design, implement, and own KoBold's global HSE management system, digital HSE stack, analytics, AI strategy, training/LMS, and document library. Partner with regional HSE and field teams, lead vendor selection/configuration, build role-based curriculum and dashboards, and support field campaigns with occasional global travel.

Lead Workday configuration and HR systems architecture, manage HR integrations, administer review cycles and security roles, build HR reporting and automation, support employee data entry and system users, and partner with teams for HR data use.