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Process Engineer-Precious Metals

Employer
Rio Tinto
Location
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Oct 13, 2022

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Category
Engineering, Mill & Metallurgy
Work Term
Permanent
Work Load
Full Time
Language
English

Job Details

Process Engineer-Precious Metals
  • Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and metals company where safety comes first
  • Work in a global company with broad opportunities
  • Competitive Salary and Benefits - Salt Lake City

About the role

We are looking for a Precious Metals Process Engineer - Technical, Metals to join the RTK Technical team and be a leader in the technical team for the Metals (Refinery - Precious Metals) portion of the value stream. This team is responsible to enable industry leading performance, to identify threats and opportunities for safe and efficient delivery of cathode -byproducts (gold, silver, PbCO3, Se and Copper telluride) and to ensure the right focus for optimization across the full value stream.

Reporting to the Refinery Principal Advisor - Technical, Metals you will:
  • Primarily, manage a suite of improvement initiatives across the Refinery Precious Metals.
  • Contribute to a team of operation, maintenance, electrical, environmental, reliability and PSM to control and improve the precious metals process.
  • Interface with Technical, Operations, Asset Management, Integration, and Environmental teams to ensure peak safety, environmental, and production performance in the Refinery.
  • Be the primary technical contacts for all day-to-day technical support needs. This includes:
    • Process Control
    • Process Monitoring
    • Troubleshooting
    • Environmental Compliance
    • Asset Integrity
    • Safety
    • Planning
    • commercial
  • Provide 24/7 technical support with Technical Team via scheduled on-site support for weekday shift and on-call support for night shift and weekends.
  • Participate in value stream planning decisions, optimizing the precious metals operation.
  • Undertake regular inspection of works to ensure that all standards, policies, and procedures comply within the operations area.
  • Aid start-up and commissioning activities to avoid plant start-up delays and/or shutdowns.
  • Support Metals Technical & Operational leaders on specific initiatives in their work areas.
  • Support environmental compliance and performance improvement of the Precious Metals.
  • Interface with relevant central teams (RT Copper Technical and RT Centre of Excellence) to maximize their support for the Kennecott business.
  • Be aware of current conditions in the rest of the value stream that will affect production and asset requirements.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders (Operations, Asset Management, Projects, Business Improvement, Financial & Commercial) to influence, prioritize and support improvements to the precious metals area.
  • Support environmental compliance and performance improvement of the Precious metals area
  • Execute short term projects to improve the operations processes
  • Support the long term and shutdown projects of the plant

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Hydrometallurgy, Metallurgy, Chemical Engineering or related Engineering Field
  • 4+ years of related process engineering work experience (preferred Hydrometallurgy, gold and silver processes)
  • Knowledge of technical, operational and financial aspects of gold and silver processes
  • Ability to understand, explain, and troubleshoot inter-related unit operations, processing systems, projects, and production strategies
  • Execution of projects for short term projects to innovate, improve or expand the life of the processes.
  • Skilled in collaboration with a broad range of stakeholders from plant personnel to organization leaders
  • Skills in statistical and data analytics
  • Project management
  • Intermediate to Advanced proficiency in MS Office and spreadsheet applications
  • Intermediate working proficiency of process data historian systems (notably OSIsoft PI), preferred Pi Vision.

It will also be beneficial if you have:
  • Exposure to Lean and Six Sigma processes
  • Experience with Process Safety Management systems
  • Experience with advanced control systems
  • Experience on production planning

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'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 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.

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
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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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