Global HSE Director

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.

About The Role:

This role will provide corporate health and safety program leadership and direct HSE guidance to field projects. The HSE Director will have primary responsibility to design, adapt, implement, and maintain the company’s health and safety management systems. The HSE Director will be responsible to understand the HSE compliance requirements in the jurisdictions where the company operates, build and manage the complementary HSE programs, and advise project teams on HSE specific standards and reporting. The HSE Director will provide coaching and leadership to build HSE capacity and capability within the company, project teams and the contractor workforce. The HSE Director will have direct supervisory responsibility for North America- and Zambia-based HSE team members.

This position will report to the VP of Operations.

Responsibilities of this position include:

• Exemplify culturally-sensitive HSE leadership across the company.
• Help design and cultivate a behavior-based HSE culture in the company.
• Design, implement and maintain the company HSE management system. 
• Ensure that HSE protection compliant standard work procedures and systems are developed, implemented, understood and monitored.  
• Ensure that incidents are reported, recorded, and translated into system or behavioral improvements.
• Ensure that all team members are adequately trained in HSE standards and requirements to properly complete work.
• Attend safety/toolbox meetings and communicate expectations with a focus of continued improvement of the HSE management system and to address team member concerns.
• Provide a high level of safety expertise, coaching and leadership to project leaders and contracted work force leaders.
• Lead HSE initiatives and continuous improvement plans, including transparent HSE KPIs and statistics in a dashboard or similar format.
• Develop reports on compliance, improvement, and workforce engagement.
• Participate in operational and major hazard risk assessments and audit activities.
• Lead incident investigation teams and ensure that reporting is completed.
• Travel to remote work sites as required.

 Qualifications

Our ideal candidate will have a minimum of 15 years of recent, related experience, supplemented by a diploma in occupational health and safety or relevant university degree; or equivalent combination of training and experience. You will also have a designation or eligibility as a Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP) or equivalent.

Strong preference will be given to candidates with demonstrated experience working in a young organization engaged in hazardous operations where development of HSE systems from an immature state was required, regardless of industry.

Our candidate should be able to demonstrate understanding of HSE issues and risks and have a knowledge of health and safety legislation, regulations, policies and practices.

In addition to the above, you will have:

• Experience working in the developing world, with preference for experience in the African continent.
• Demonstrated ability to lead implementation of corporate standards in diverse cultural settings.
• Considerable experience implementing and supporting safety programs, workplace inspections, audits and incident investigations.Prior experience with DATS, Forwood CRM, and Everywhere Communication platforms.
• Ability to guide supervisory staff on safety matters through active listening and transparent communication. 
• Strong analytical and research skills and a high degree of integrity and professionalism.
• Demonstrated ability to  facilitate in-house safety training. (WHIMIS, TDG, Bear Aware). 
• Sound knowledge and ability to interpret and apply relevant regulations and legislation such as workers compensation, occupational health, emergency response, and environmental protection. 
• Ability and availability to travel to remote work sites as required. Multiple trips of a week or more are expected during each calendar year. 

KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.

Salary range for this position is $185,000 - $230,000.

Location: Remote, Candidates can be located anywhere in the United States or Canada. All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada.