Engineer Mining EIT
- Employer
- Rio Tinto
- Location
- Labrador City, NL, CA
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- Apr 20, 2021
- Closes
- Apr 22, 2021
- Ref
- 1547539095
- Category
- Engineering, Mining Production
- Work Term
- Permanent
- Work Load
- Full Time
- Language
- English
Mining Engineer Long-Range Mine Planner
About the role
We are looking for a Long-Range Mine Planner at our Labrador City operations (working Monday to Friday 40 hours per week). The successful candidate will be involved in a number of functions within the mine planning team including, budgetary, 5-year, and life-of-mine schedules, as well as mine designs, infrastructure planning, and regulatory reporting.
Reporting to the Senior Long-Range Planner at our Labrador City operations, this role is a great opportunity to be responsible for the efficient design and scheduling to optimize property value. The role includes:
What you'll bring
To succeed in this role, you will require:
It will also be beneficial if you have:
What we offer
Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you've helped the world progress.
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
We are a leading North American producer and exporter of premium iron ore pellets and high-grade concentrate with average iron grades greater than 66%. With a team of over 2,400 employees, IOC is committed to providing value and continuity for our customers, employees, communities and shareholders through our unique mine to port approach, taking advantage of our full integration and wholly owned infrastructure to deliver our high-quality concentrate and pellets to our customers across the globe.
IOC's operations include a mine with five operational pits, a concentrator and a pelletizing plant located near Labrador City in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. We also operate a wholly-owned 418 km railway, the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway (QNS&L) that links our Labrador operations to Company-owned port facilities in Sept-Iles.
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.
Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.
Closing Date: 3rd May, 2021
- Our culture is inclusive, exciting and performance-driven
- Opportunity to experience northern Canada though a small yet active town
- Contribute to the success of Rio Tinto/IOC by applying your technical and professional expertise
About the role
We are looking for a Long-Range Mine Planner at our Labrador City operations (working Monday to Friday 40 hours per week). The successful candidate will be involved in a number of functions within the mine planning team including, budgetary, 5-year, and life-of-mine schedules, as well as mine designs, infrastructure planning, and regulatory reporting.
Reporting to the Senior Long-Range Planner at our Labrador City operations, this role is a great opportunity to be responsible for the efficient design and scheduling to optimize property value. The role includes:
- Ensuring health, safety, and environment needs are given a top priority in the planning of tasks
- Ensure critical risks are identified in the planning process with appropriate controls accounted for so the work can be performed safely and effectively.
- Long-range mine schedules, including budgetary, 5-year, and/or LOM schedules
- Generation and analysis of reconciliations of actual performance to plan and between plans
- Mine design pit, dump, and road designs, other mine features as required
- Contribution to reserve and resource reporting as well as regulatory reporting
- Haulage profile and cycle time analysis
- Scoping of future pit developments.
- Infrastructure planning dewatering, power distribution, etc.
- Commissioning of engineering studies and management of contractors, consultants and vendors as required
- Participation in continuous improvement initiatives
What you'll bring
To succeed in this role, you will require:
- Been registered or eligible for a Professional Engineering designation in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in the discipline of Mining Engineering
- Experience in an industrial environment and knowledge of open pit mining techniques
- Strong computer skills including the Microsoft Office Suite
It will also be beneficial if you have:
- 3+ years of experience in mine planning, mine operations or mine projects.
- Site base mining experience
- Familiarity or experience with mine (open pit) survey techniques, drill & blast design, fleet management, dispatch systems, etc.
- Experience with mine scheduling, including knowledge of suites such as Deswik or Runge
- Knowledge of 3D mine design software, such as Vulcan
- Experience with reserve and resource reporting, including pit optimization and design
- Project management experience
- Supervisory experience
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
- An ambitious, exciting and rewarding experience
- Opportunity to build relationships with the Rio Tinto team and community
- A relocation allowance and a premium are offered for students outside the region
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
We are a leading North American producer and exporter of premium iron ore pellets and high-grade concentrate with average iron grades greater than 66%. With a team of over 2,400 employees, IOC is committed to providing value and continuity for our customers, employees, communities and shareholders through our unique mine to port approach, taking advantage of our full integration and wholly owned infrastructure to deliver our high-quality concentrate and pellets to our customers across the globe.
IOC's operations include a mine with five operational pits, a concentrator and a pelletizing plant located near Labrador City in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. We also operate a wholly-owned 418 km railway, the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway (QNS&L) that links our Labrador operations to Company-owned port facilities in Sept-Iles.
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.
Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.
Closing Date: 3rd May, 2021