Senior Engineer Metals Planning

• Global company with a world class reputation for safety and performance
• Collaborative work environment
• Position based 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 Senior Engineer Metals Planning to own and maintain the process of planning for all time horizons; continued development and improvement of tools, models, and collaboration for all Metals; and be the touch point for all interested parties with regards to all Metals plans.

This role is a great opportunity to be part of the technical team for the Metals portion of RTKC. Reporting to the Manager Metals Technical, you will:

• Lead and coordinate work for metals planning in the 14-day, 3 month, annual, and Life of Mine periods for the metals side of RTKC (smelter and refinery)
• Work with integrated planning to update metals portion of the planning model when necessary
• Run planning model for smelter and refinery
• Interface and collaborate with other teams such as Metals Operations, Metals Asset Management, Marketing, Finance, Group Risk, Mine and Concentrator Planning, and Integrated Planning
• Facilitate metals planning meetings to engage stakeholder for both planning inputs and outputs
• Perform as a credible technical resource for the smelter and refinery
• Work closely with metals Met Accounting to align plans as accurately as possible with plant conditions
• Lead or participate in project teams to solve process or planning problems in order to optimize value for RTKC
• Utilize problem solving/project leading tools and soft skills to facilitate working sessions / training to develop and implement new tools to optimize value for the value stream

What you'll bring

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• B.S. degree in Mining, Metallurgical, or Chemical Engineering or relevant work experience
• Understanding of planning processes
• 5+ year of experience in mining or processing
• Strong commitment to driving safety culture

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Experience with process modelling
• Project management skills

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 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

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.

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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