Rio Tinto
Job title:
Principal Advisor Estimating
Company
Rio Tinto
Job description
Principal Advisor – Estimating
- Exciting opportunity to join a global organization at the forefront of mining projects
- Opportunity to expand your underground mining experience
- Excellent work environment where people are valued and respected
- Permanent opportunity based in Salt Lake City, Utah
About the role
Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.
We are looking for a Principal Advisor Estimating to enhance our estimating capability within Rio Tinto Projects. This is a unique opportunity for a person who has previous estimating experience, preferably in mining, coupled with project controls experience.
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.
Reporting to the Principal Advisor Estimating and Planning, and working in a collaborative and exciting environment within Rio Tinto Projects, you will:
- Foster a relationship of trust and respect with key product group stakeholders, engineering service providers, contractors and project and services teams
- Drive the quality of cost estimating across projects in Rio Tinto’s Copper and Diamonds Global portfolio and other underground mining estimates produced by the group
- Review estimates provided by others at various stages of maturity including Conceptual, Order of Magnitude, Pre-Feasibility Study, Feasibility Study and Definitive Estimates and schedules, as required
- Prepare first principles estimate for mining and construction projects
- Provide expert advice and support where the size and complexity of project(s) is significant enough to warrant strategic leadership of the function within the owner’s team
- Develop and improve Rio Tinto Project’s approach to estimating
- Lead Conceptual, Order of Magnitude, Pre-Feasibility Study, Feasibility Study and Definitive Estimates and schedules, as required.
What you will bring
- A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
- Underground mining exposure in a Project Controls Engineering, Estimating, Mining Engineering position is preferred
- A degree in Engineering or Quantity surveying or equivalent
- Advanced knowledge of estimating software, such as Expert Estimator, InEight Estimate is desirable
- Analytical skills, attention to detail, problem-solving and ability to work to tight deadlines
- Proven ability to research, compare and analyse voluminous and complex management and financial information
- Outstanding stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
- Excellent written and spoken verbal communication and presentation skills
- Ability to effectively lead small groups of people for defined periods across geographically dispersed areas
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 favorable 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’ll 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 being 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
Tue, 16 Jan 2024 23:59:04 GMT
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