General Manager, Oyu Tolgoi Technical & Strategic Mine Planning

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• High profile, broad accountability and critical leadership
• Brisbane based location

About the role

We are currently looking for a General Manager, Oyu Tolgoi Technical & Strategic Mine Planning to lead the Brisbane based mine technical services teams supporting the Oyu Tolgoi mine site in Mongolia, for Rio Tinto Copper.

The Brisbane technical team provides critical operations support to the Oyu Tolgoi mine, including:

• To provide Statement of Works (SoW) services to OT LLC as sanctioned by the OT Board
• To ensure the principles and behaviours of the Copper Technical Operating model are applied in the services provided to OT LLC
• Provision of optimized plans, robust mine designs and specialist technical support, technology & innovation to OTLLC
• Underground and Open Pit mine design and medium (quarterly) to life of mine scheduling, including reconciliation and improvement projects
• Underground cave health management, including planning, reconciliation and optimisation
• Open pit, Underground and Processing integrated production scheduling
• Underground and Open Pit life of mine extension studies
• Resource and Reserve development, reconciliation and reporting
• Rigorous reconciliation of all models, plans and performance outcomes
• Development of new systems and processes to continually improve performance

Oyu Tolgoi is one of the most exciting developments in copper and gold mining for several decades. It contains reserves and resources that make it one of the world's largest known copper and gold deposits. The project is expected to be a significant contributor to Mongolia's development.

Situated in the southern Gobi desert of Mongolia, approximately 550 kilometres south of the capital, Ulaanbaatar and 80 kilometres north of the Mongolia-China border, Oyu Tolgoi is jointly owned by the Government of Mongolia (34 per cent) and Turquoise Hill Resources (66 per cent, of which Rio Tinto owns 51 per cent). Since 2010, Rio Tinto has also been the manager of the Oyu Tolgoi project.

As part of the Rio Tinto Copper Oyu Tolgoi team, you have the ability to contribute to something significant and learn and develop both personally and professionally. We offer a collaborative, high performing environment where success is achieved by working together.

This is a great opportunity for a passionate and engaging leader with significant mine management and/or mine planning/ studies experience.

Being a Rio Tinto senior leader means helping to run a company that drives human progress. You are writing the next chapter of our story. You lead some of the industry's best and brightest minds, working to solve the challenges of the 21st century. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop are broad and exciting.

Reporting to the Copper Technical Director and working in a challenging and exciting environment within Copper Technical Services you will actively drive an injury free workplace through the ongoing engagement of teams on the correct use of equipment and procedures whilst enforcing HSE and Sustainable Development. Finally, you will identify and unlock opportunities for growth and value creation through your extensive business and stakeholder engagement knowledge.

What you'll bring

• Strong commitment towards safety

• Engaging and passionate leader with strong focus on collaboration
• Highly effective communicator with the ability to influence

• Loves developing capability within the team

• Seasoned leader and a strategic thinker
• Degree qualifications in mining engineering or related discipline.

• Mine planning and studies experience preferably with underground mining experience but most importantly the ability to manage delivery of mine plans and the reconciliation and improvement process.

What we offer

Work with a world class team who are highly capable and driven to succeed together.

Where you'll be working

Rio Tinto Copper in Brisbane, with travel to Oyu Tolgoi Mine in Mongolia

Every Voice Matters

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.

Applications closes on Monday, 23rd May 2021 (Australian Time Zone)