Project Engineer - Production Support

• Be part of the world's leading mining organization
• Commitment to a safe working environment
• Work with a diverse and challenging team - Salt Lake City,UT

About the role

We are looking for an Project Engineer - Production Support focused on supporting Mine Operations. The successful applicant will ensure that safe practices are followed, build business case justification for capital projects, manage contractors, budgets, and inventory..

This role is a great opportunity to interact with vendors, contractors, and operational leaders to help the Mine deliver to plan and budget. Reporting to the Manager - Mine Scheduling and Projects, you will be:

• Implementing best practices for contractor management, ensuring external vendors are safe and compliant in all safety systems
• Identifying and solving complex problems and risks that have the potential to impact the Mine plan and budget
• Building justification for capital expenditures and presenting to Senior Leadership for approval
• Fostering external relationships to strengthen and sustain competitive advantage
• Maintaining billing and budget for Mine consumables
• Delivering KPI's and reporting showing usage and spend
• Engaging with varied stakeholder while leading commissioning of rental and purchased equipment
• Interfacing with Operational Leaders to identify new and unique solutions to complex problems

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• Bachelor's Degree in related field
• Experience in Mining, Asset Management, and cost strategies and best practices
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including ability to work and communicate with leaders, peers, vendors, employees, and shared services
• Ability to adapt to changing business conditions and communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels
• Initiate and implement change with commitment and drive
• Safety conscious approach to work and be self-motivated to deliver results
• Computer skills, knowledge of Microsoft Office, Excel & SAP

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Experience in the Mining Industry
• Knowledge of tire strategies and best practices

What we offer

We are committed to providing our employees with a generous benefits package. Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking, your hard work, and go home knowing you've helped the world progress, we provide:

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• Advantageous salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees
• Access to top-tier family-friendly health programs including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life insurance coverage, and various voluntary benefits.
• Excellent retirement plan including up to 6% defined company contribution; Generous 401k matching program
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program, which allows you to purchase Rio Tinto Company shares.
• Comprehensive leave policies which cover all moments that matter in life: PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave.
• A favorable child-caregiver leave program (Up to 100% salary top-up)
• Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing
• Ongoing Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family; to help in addressing educational opportunities, addiction treatment, depression, stress, domestic issues, financial management, and legal concerns.
• Our team and industry experts are here to support and work with you to explore your learning potential and career goals

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. 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 LGBTQ+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

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