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Principal Advisor, Technical Services

Employer
Rio Tinto
Location
Salt Lake City, UT, US
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
May 2, 2021

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Category
Technicians, Trade & Skilled
Work Term
Permanent
Work Load
Full Time
Language
English

Job Details

Principal Advisor, Technical Services
  • Management of multi-disciplinary technical team
  • Provide key technical deliverables in support of safety and operational excellence
  • Role based at the Bingham Canyon mine in Salt Lake City, UT

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

"¯We are looking for a"¯Principal Advisor Technical Services"¯to be responsible for managing technical aspects of the underground characterization work (UGC) for the Integrated Skarns Project (ISP) at the Bingham Canyon Mine. You will be responsible for ensuring project objectives are met in an efficient, cost-effective, safe and responsible manner.

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Reporting to the UGC Project Manager and working for the Integrated Skarns project, you will be:


  • Leading the technical services team in support of the project team and mining contractor, including coaching, mentoring and developing technical staff;
  • Direct oversight of mine designs and ventilation plans, ensuring compliance to relevant internal and statutory requirements;
  • Overseeing geotechnical, geological and diamond drilling programs to ensure adherence to technical specifications, project scope and QA/QC requirements;
  • Establishing systems and processes for tracking and reporting of underground development progress, QA/QC activities and KPI's;
  • Identifying and implementing best practices and continuous improvement initiatives related to engineering systems and procedures;
  • Working across the study team, execution team, contractor and key internal stakeholders to ensure all required technical support is available for successful project delivery; and
  • Participating in regular underground inspections to provide technical advice and safety leadership to the project team and contractor.

What you'll bring

To succeed in this role, you will have:"¯
  • A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team;
  • Undergraduate degree in mining engineering or relevant engineering discipline;
  • A minimum 10 years of site-based underground mining experience;
  • Demonstrated experience leading technical teams;
  • Experience in mine ventilation design, implementation and operation;
  • Experience in underground mine design, planning and scheduling;
  • Highly developed communications skills that enable effective interaction between the project team, contractors and engineering service providers and the ability to foster relationships with stakeholders; and
  • Demonstrated project organization and management skills.

It will also be beneficial if you have:
  • Demonstrated expertise in mine design and scheduling software;
  • Experience in mine ventilation software;
  • Experience in preparation of annual forecasts, budgets and reserve statements;
  • Working knowledge of mine electrical, pumping, compressed air and water systems;
  • An understanding of regulatory standards related to mining in the USA;
  • Professional Engineering registration;
  • Working knowledge of mine schedule optimization tools; and
  • Underground operational and/or supervisory experience.

What we offer

Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you've helped the world progress.
  • A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
  • A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees
  • Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions
  • Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs and pension plan
  • Wellbeing benefits
  • Generous Rio Tinto employee share program
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matter
  • Leave for all of life's reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

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'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.

The Underground Characterization (UGC) project at Rio Tinto Kennecott is a component of the larger Integrated Skarns Project (ISP) and is intended to collect geological, geotechnical and hydrogeological data from the North Rim Skarn (NRS) deposit beneath the Bingham Canyon open pit mine. The technical data will support the completion of a feasibility study, with the ultimate goal of moving ISP into full scale underground production. The UGC project includes lateral and vertical underground development as well as the construction of surface and underground infrastructure necessary to support the project.

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

Rio Tinto participates in E-Verify to confirm work authorization. Please visit http://www.uscis.gov/ for more information.

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.

Company

We are curious and creative, ingenious and hard-working. We are pioneers – exploring the boundaries of everything we do. The materials we produce are essential to human progress, and we see that progress driven by our people. Working at Rio Tinto means touching people’s lives: from exploring new materials to finding ways to tackle climate change. 

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. And 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. 

Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.

Company info
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Rio Tinto
Telephone
+44 20 7781 2000
Location
6 St James's Square
London
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SW1Y 4AD
Australia

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