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Mine Senior Electrical Engineer

Employer
Rio Tinto
Location
Salt Lake City, UT, US
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Nov 1, 2021

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Category
Engineering, Mining Production, Trade & Skilled
Work Term
Permanent
Work Load
Full Time
Language
English

Job Details

Mine Senior Electrical Engineer
  • Excellent opportunity to provide technical support for a large/complex operation
  • Work in a diverse, collaborative, and rapidly changing environment
  • Start your career with Rio Tinto today! - Salt Lake City

About the role

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

We are looking for a Mine Senior Electrical Engineer to support mining operations by working on critical electrical assets. The role may have an Electrical, Controls, power, or Instrumentation emphasis. The successful candidate will support and report to the Minerals portion of Rio Tinto Kennecott. This role will support the open pit mine which includes the underground portion, and the crushing conveying system.

This role is a great opportunity to join a truly global mining organization and be involved in the technical electrical support of mining operations. Reporting to the minerals Electrical Superintendent, you will be:
  • Providing support to electrical mining equipment by learning the systems and processes, keeping up required maintenance on those systems, troubleshooting failures, and making improvements for a more sustainable operation.
  • Planning relevant safety requirements into all activities, tasks and projects based on assessed hazards, identified critical risks and mitigating actions
  • Contributing through applying technical/professional knowledge to solve complex problems and recommend solutions
  • Leading a team of engineers and electrical systems controls specialists with yearly performance objectives, development plans, safety objectives, and hold team meetings regularly
  • Ensure technical drawings, equipment, and installation practices are within standards and code
  • Assisting in the maintenance and reliability of mining shovels, tank/fill stations, blast drills, load centers, in-pit crusher, and long conveying system
  • Undertaking engineering investigations and providing clear recommendations for management action
  • Participating in continuous improvement by identifying and implementing activities which will enable the increase in production or the decrease of downtime events
  • Ensuring site compliance with the electrical engineering standards and reviewing the standards on a regular basis

What you'll bring
To succeed in this role, you will have:
  • A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
  • A bachelor's degree in Engineering, or other relevant related technical field
  • Experience in mining, industrial, or large plant manufacturing
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience with computer system applications, including Word, Excel, MS Project
  • Previous leadership experience around technical/engineering teams

It will also be beneficial if you have:
  • Experience with Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Controls is preferable.
  • Broad understanding of electrical power distribution systems of low, medium and high voltage
  • Experience with control systems including Emerson DeltaV and Rockwell Allen Bradley PLCs
  • Experience in AC/DC motors and troubleshooting
  • Knowledge of electrical software tools and systems

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'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 LGBTQIA2 community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

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

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