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Manager- Mine Technical Services

Employer
Rio Tinto
Location
Boron, CA, US
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Jan 28, 2022

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

Job Details

Manager Mine Technical Services
  • Opportunity to develop your career and work for a global company on process improvement projects
  • Contribute to the success of Rio Tinto by applying your technical and professional expertise
  • A company with a world-class reputation for safety and performance.
  • The role is based in the Boron CA Area

About the role

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

We are seeking a talented Manager to lead the Mine Technical Services group at our open-pit mine in Boron, CA. You will be responsible for the leadership and direction of a staff of engineers and technicians who provide technical and systems solutions to develop the mine plan and mining strategy.

This role is a great opportunity to lead an excellent technical team and contribute to the success of Rio Tinto.

Reporting to the Mine Manager you will:
  • Manages day to day and strategic direction of mine engineering including, long-range and LOM (Life Of Mine) planning, geology, hydrogeology, and geotechnical functions
  • Creates an inclusive work environment and works with employees to ensure the work and behaviors of the team align with Company values.
  • Management and execution of mine development projects to improve safety, optimize assets, ensure the mine meets its annual production plans, and ensure the future expansion of mine operations.
  • Manages daily mine engineering functions with mine operations.
  • Plans and supervises the work of a staff of professional engineers and technicians to accomplish mine planning scenarios and analysis.
  • Reviews technical feasibility of proposed solutions to engineering problems and personally helps in solving difficult technical problems.
  • Optimizes the deployment of the technical workforce as priorities change by managing mine site and corporate requirements.
  • Oversees mine design, economic evaluation, cost estimating, productivity forecasting, equipment selection, and production scheduling on a wide range of studies from pre-scoping to feasibility studies.
  • Incorporates, investigates, and develops best practices in areas of property evaluation, mine engineering design and scheduling, and alternate mining technology.

What you'll bring

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:
  • Robust and proven HSE record.
  • Engaging and inclusive leadership skills
  • Bachelor's degree minimum, preferably in mine engineering or geoscience.
  • 10 plus years experience leading mine technical teams in a senior leadership role
  • Knowledge of the key drivers in the mining industry and should possess project management skills
  • Demonstrate skills in stakeholder management within an integrated operation
  • Ability to prepare clear communication in the form of presentations and present projects and annual production updates to senior management
  • Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills

It will also be beneficial if you have:
  • MBA or MSc in Finance
  • Mine operational experience achieved through management or supervision of a mine operations team.

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 matters
  • 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 aluminum 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

Rio Tinto Borates is a global leader in industrial mineral supply and science. We supply approximately 25% of the world's demand for refined borates, minerals essential to life and modern living. We seek to create mutual value by working closely with our investment partners and host communities. Our 20 Mule Team Borax brand pays tribute to our first borates mining operation in Death Valley in 1872.

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

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