Senior Hydrogeologist - Tailings

KCB is a multidisciplinary engineering, geoscience, and environmental consulting firm grounded in our values of Passion, Integrity
, and Excellence
. With teams across North America, South America, Australasia, and Europe, we bring together global technical knowledge, local insight, and a shared commitment to solving complex challenges that matter.

Today's challenges demand more than just technical knowledge; they require collaboration, creativity, and a deep understanding of the communities, industries, and environments that we support. At KCB, our team collaborates across regions and disciplines to bring practical thinking, technical excellence, and diverse perspectives to every project.

We are problem-solvers  teams bring passion to complex challenges, integrity to every client relationship and excellence to the solutions we deliver for communities, industries, and future generations.

Guided by our long-term ambition of Globally Connected Excellence and our purpose of Sustaining the Future, we work alongside our clients to deliver lasting solutions that strengthen resilience and benefit future generations.

We are looking for a Senior Hydrogeologist to join our Arizona-based team to work on local and international mining and resource projects. Your experience will be applied to the planning, investigation, assessment, design, and construction of tailings and water dams and waste storage for mining. Career development can be managed to support personal preferences such as niche, technical design specialists, or project participation in both technical dam engineering scopes and project management, or all-round engineering specialists.

Our focus is on the application of critical thinking to the management of mine waste and water. By continuing your career journey with us, you would be part of our Mining Environmental Group
, based out our Phoenix office. The role of Senior Hydrogeologist comes with the flexibility to work a hybrid schedule and will provide you with the opportunity to:

• Join a dynamic team of professionals committed to delivering high quality hydrogeological and environmental services.
• Further develop your knowledge and technical skills in hydrogeology through challenging projects.
• Engage in both field and office-based hydrogeology work on projects such as tailings and water storage dams, mine water management, dewatering, water supply, contaminant hydrogeology and other environmental and engineering applications.
• Conduct groundwater and hydrochemical analysis and modelling.
• Provide input and be recognized for your contributions to the team and projects.
• Broaden your professional practice by working on multi-disciplinary engineering projects while maintaining your focus in hydrogeology.

We respect the knowledge and experience you have gained to date and are willing to help you build on it. We do however require the following qualifications:

• A degree in Geology, Hydrogeology, or Geological engineering, with a track record of continued development
• At least 15 years’ experience in hydrogeology including related to tailings and water storage dams, mine water management, dewatering, water supply, contaminant hydrogeology

• Experience designing, installing and field testing of wells for water supply projects, aquifer feasibility studies, dewatering / depressurization and monitoring projects.
• Experience in implementing and undertaking groundwater and environmental monitoring and sampling programs.
• Working knowledge of industry standard software packages including: AQTESOLV, Aquifer Test, Surfer, Aqua Chem, Geochemist’s Workbench, Rock Works and GIS software.
• Eligibility to become professionally registered in Canada.
• An ability to…