Rio Tinto
Job title:
Mine Planning Engineer
Company
Rio Tinto
Job description
Mine Planning Engineer
- Be part of the world’s leading mining organization
- Work with a diverse and challenging team
- Commitment to a safe working environment – Salt Lake City, Utah
About the role
Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.
We are looking for a Mine Planning Engineer to be a key member of the Mine Scheduling and Projects team. The responsibility of this role will be to support the development of short-range mine plans and strategies to maximize value of the Bingham Canyon resource and mitigate business risk.
We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.
This is a great opportunity; you will actively work with multiple stakeholders across the value stream to facilitate best practice and develop mine planning skills focusing on production scheduling.
Reporting to the Senior Scheduler – Minerals, and working withing a diverse team you will be:
- Utilize mine planning and scheduling tools to create optimal mine designs and schedules.
- Evaluate the success of mining plans through effective reconciliation.
- Working with the Concentrator schedulers, Ore Body knowledge, and Integrated Operations teams to optimize the ore delivery and processing strategies.
- Work with Geotechnical and Geology teams to assure safe and optimal mine designs and plans.
- Effectively communicate mine plans to several groups at varying level of detail via presentations, written methods, and face to face conversations.
What you’ll bring
- A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
- S. Degree in Mining Engineering or 3+ years’ experience working in a large open pit mine environment as a mine planner or similar role.
- Experience working in mining operational or technical teams, leading the development or implementation of mine plans.
- Safety conscious approach to work and be self-motivated to deliver results.
- Desire to coach and mentor Graduate Engineers
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with employees at all levels of the organization.
- Experience with Minesight or similar mine design program
- Experience with lean, six-sigma, management of change, safety system programs, intermediate to Advanced proficiency in MS Office
What we offer
We are committed to providing our employees with a generous benefits package. Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking, your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress, we provide:
- A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
- Advantageous salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees
- Access to top-tier family-friendly health programs including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life insurance coverage, and various voluntary benefits.
- Excellent retirement plan including up to 6% defined company contribution; Generous 401k matching program.
- Generous Rio Tinto employee share program, which allows you to purchase Rio Tinto Company shares.
- Comprehensive leave policies which cover all moments that matter in life: PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave.
- A favourable child-caregiver leave program (Up to 100% salary top-up)
- Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing.
- Ongoing Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family; to help in addressing educational opportunities, addiction treatment, depression, stress, domestic issues, financial management, and legal concerns.
- Our team and industry experts are here to support and work with you to explore your learning potential and career goals.
About Rio Tinto
Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.
We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win and meet opportunities.
Where you will be working
Our Kennecott mine is a world-class, fully integrated copper mining operation, including a concentrator, smelter, and refinery, located just outside Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States. We produce copper, precious metals including gold and silver, molybdenum, and sulfuric acid. Kennecott has been mining and processing minerals from the rich ore body of the Bingham Canyon Mine since 1903 and is one of the top producing mines in the world, comprising approximately 11 percent of U.S. annual copper production.
Every Voice Matters
At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQ+ community, mature workers, Veterans and active-duty armed forces, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.
Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V
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We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, or anything else that makes us different.
Expected salary
Location
Salt Lake City, UT
Job date
Sat, 03 Feb 2024 23:37:12 GMT
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