Senior Engineer Strategic Mine Planning

Rio Tinto
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Competitive
Jul 18, 2022
Aug 15, 2022
21536233
Permanent
Full Time
English
Senior Engineer - Strategic Mine Planning
  • Excellent career opportunity to provide technical leadership and strategy for a large and complex mining project
  • Make a tangible impact, delivering real value to the business
  • Work in a diverse, collaborative and fast paced environment based in -Salt Lake City, UT

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Mine Planning Engineer -Long Range to drive the development of life of mine plans and strategies to maximize value of the Bingham Canyon resource and mitigate business risk.

The role's main task is to design and plan integrated mining cases that optimize the balance between value and risk and develop material delivery sequences, mine fleet requirements and estimates for capital and operating cost suitable for inclusion into mining studies and life of mine plans.

Reporting to the Principal engineer- Strategic Mine Planning in this role you will ensure mine plans have technical assurance and risks are identified and quantified to support investment proposals. Long Range and Strategic Mine Planning functions include:
  • Development and communication of mine plans and strategies to support evaluation and senior management decision-making regarding risk and value profiles of life of mine plans.
  • Communication and management of significant risk involved in development and implementation of the mine plan including geotechnical risk.
  • Application of mining economic evaluation techniques including cut-off grade analysis, risk assessment, and value optimization.
  • Ownership and custodian of key mining systems and processes including pit slope design and production scheduling.

About you

To succeed in this role, you will have:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Mining engineering or other relevant discipline.
  • At least 5 years of Mine planning experience in large open cut mining environments or complex poly-metallic value chains.
  • Strong capability in mine design and production scheduling software (MineSight, COMET and Whittle or equivalent).
  • Ability to work in cross-functional and multi-disciplinary teams to ensure mine plans are integrated across ore body knowledge and the business.
  • Strong communication skills including preparation of technical reports and presentations to senior management.
  • Ability to solve and communicate technical problems with practical solutions.

It will also be beneficial if you have:
  • Exposure to mining studies and development of project evaluations for funding and investment proposals.
  • Knowledge of financial drivers and financial evaluation techniques.

What we offer

Here is just a glimpse of our industry leading rewards package:
  • A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
  • A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees
  • Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions
  • Access to top tier family-friendly health and medical programs
  • Excellent retirement plan including 6% defined company contribution
  • Generous 401k matching program
  • A comprehensive leave policy that covers all moments that matter in life (vacation/annual, paid parental leave, short term sick leave, paid holidays)
  • Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matter
  • Generous Rio Tinto employee share program

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 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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