Mine Scheduling Engineer

• A company with a world-class reputation for safety and performance

• Develop and communicate short-range mine plans to key stakeholders for the Bingham Canyon's mineral deposit.

• Excellent opportunity to develop your career and further develop your technical expertise at Bingham Canyon Mine Based in- Salt Lake City, Utah

About the role

We are looking for a Mine Scheduling 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.

This role is a great opportunity, you will actively work with multiple stakeholders across the value stream to facilitate best practice and develop mine planning skills in production scheduling. Reporting to the Manager Mine scheduling and projects, your functions will include:

• 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 personnel 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 communication.

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• B.S. Degree in Mining Engineering or equivalent
• 2+ years' experience working in a large open pit mine environment as a mine planner or similar role
• Experience working in mine technical teams
• Experience leading technical mining projects
• Intermediate to Advanced proficiency in MS Office

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Experience with Minesight or similar mine design program
• Mine Operations Experience
• Experience in an open pit mine control room
• Experience with RTVis
• Experience with lean, six-sigma, management of change, and safety system programs

What we offer

Here is just a glimpse of our industry leading rewards package:

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees
• Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions
• Access to top tier family-friendly health and medical programs
• Excellent retirement plan including 6% defined company contribution
• Generous 401k matching program
• A comprehensive leave policy that covers all moments that matter in life (vacation/annual, paid parental leave, short term sick leave, paid holidays)
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matter
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls 'progress' begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress.

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium the world's first to be certified "responsible" helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world and explore the universe. Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

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. 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, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

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