Principal Advisor Mining Engineer

• Great opportunity to join a global mining organization
• Outstanding personal development & career opportunities
• Competitive salary and benefits Phoenix, Arizona

About the role

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

We are looking for a Principal Mining Engineer for Resolution Copper Project. This multi-billion dollar project is entering Feasibility Study (FS) phase in January 2022. The project comprises the establishment of the underground mine, an ore concentrator, tailings storage facilities and other process and off site infrastructure.

Part of the Project scope on critical path is going into construction in May 2022 by starting the Underground Characterization and Mine Access programs. The two scopes jointly incorporate the upgrade of the No.9 and No10 shafts, creating a mine access levels at 5,800ft below collar and develop 18,000ft of twin exploration drifts in order to complete various tests feeding into the Life of Mine FS.

Using your knowledge and experience in mining engineering, operation and mining project development, you will solve complex technical problems within a multidisciplinary project execution team, ensure design consistency across the different areas of the mine, interface with different internal and external stakeholders, oversee the development of engineering design and execution, while maintaining a strong focus on quality management and ensure that the design meets the company functional requirements, corporate, state and federal standards. You will foster an equal opportunity, collaborative, safety and efficiency focused culture at the work-place, coach and train staff.

This role is a great opportunity to join a world class multi disciplinary engineering and project team in charge of project and study execution. Support and coordinate discipline engineering to enable the delivery of feasibility level engineering designs, detailed engineering, contribute to project execution planning and interfacing with internal and external stake holders, both engineering and execution support of the project scopes in construction.

Reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager, you will be:

• Supporting engineering, review and evaluate progress reporting, and troubleshooting. This includes engineering to enable procurement support for delivery of the plan. Take ownership of procurement packages and scopes of work forming the basis of contracts.
• Assessing lateral development and construction proposals and methodologies,
• Undertaking cycle analysis and optimization to support mine development contractor proposal evaluation.
• Mine planning for lateral development including layout, infrastructure, mobile fleet, sequencing of construction phases of project execution.
• Interprets internal or external project delivery issues to recommend courses of action designed to eliminate potential execution problems and to improve construction efficiency and control construction costs.
• Consider and recommend technologies to be deployed to enhance lateral development productivity, and Life of Mine planning activities.
• Prepare business cases, assess trade-offs and make recommendations, document findings in support of project studies.
• Contributes to successful project completion by participating hands-on in the resolution of issues such as conflicting design requirements, unsuitability of standard materials, and complex coordination requirements.
• Transfers the knowledge obtained during project execution to operation planning tasks.
• Maintaining relationships with stakeholders to support a culture of inclusion and collaboration, participation and improvement and addresses issues with impact beyond own team based on knowledge of related disciplines.
• Actively participate and demonstrate leadership for a strong safety-culture based project and study execution.

What youll bring

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• College/University Education: University degree in Mining Engineering
• 15 years of mine design, planning and/or operational experience in an underground mining environment.
• Broad understanding of project management, engineering management, multi-discipline engineering practices, and construction practices.
• Interface with operations and maintenance staff on site and fulfill statutory reporting obligations.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office tools, mining focused design software (e.g. AutoCAD, Vulcan, Deswik) understanding of development schedule and cost control tools and reporting, good communication and collaboration with a multinational project execution team.
• Exposure to and understanding of the Lean in Construction principle.
• Demonstrated strong HSE focused work practices.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to foster and inclusive, collaborative work environment.

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Licenses/Certifications: Project management certification or advanced project management training is highly valued.
• Experience in underground mining construction.
• Experience in shaft systems, engineering and construction.

What we offer

Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing youve 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 lifes 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 worlds 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 youll be working

The Resolution Copper project is a proposed underground mine 60 miles east of Phoenix, Arizona, near the town of Superior. The project is a joint venture owned by Rio Tinto (55%) and BHP (45%). The ore deposit lies nearly 7,000 feet below the earth's surface. It represents one of the most significant untapped copper deposits today, with an estimated copper resource of 1.787 billion metric tonnes at an average grade of 1.5% copper. The mine has the potential to supply nearly 25% of US copper demand.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we value diversity and inclusiveness at our workplaces. We welcome 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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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.