Process Engineer

Rio Tinto
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Competitive
Nov 25, 2022
Dec 22, 2022
876682760
Permanent
Full Time
English
Process Engineer
  • Opportunity to work with as a process engineer in a world class smelting and refining operation
  • Exposure to multiple groups within Rio Tinto Kennecott Utah Copper
  • Process engineering opportunities in multiple unit operations (acid plant, flash smelting and converting, filtration, floatation and crushing, hydrometallurgy and electro refining)

About the role

We are looking for a Process Engineer to join the Rio Tinto Kennecott Metals Technical Team to support the Metals Group day-to-day process control, process improvements, risk mitigation, safety improvements, and technologically innovative solutions.

This role is a great opportunity to apply and develop your process engineering skills. This role reports to the Principal Advisor (Hot Metals). Responsibilities include:
  • Providing process support including monitoring, trouble shooting, and optimization, providing technical support for the 24/7 operation, on an as needed basis.
  • Identifying gaps between past performance and production plans and implementing solutions to close those gaps.
  • Implement Process Safety Management practices in Metals Group
  • Reporting of data for process control, production planning, and process optimization
  • Initiates, develops and implements projects to improve process efficiency, capacity and control.
  • Be a Safety Leader by identifying and implementing safety improvements and risk mitigation
  • Work in cross functional Teams to provide best possible solutions to Plant issues.
  • Provide training and guidance to team members (Operations, Asset Management, etc.) to accomplish production goals
  • Capital projects, initiation, execution and support.

What you will bring

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:
  • A minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in Metallurgical or Chemical Engineering. Other engineering disciplines with applicable processing experience may also be considered.
  • Experience working in processing ot smelting. Position commensurate with level of experience.
  • Experience in process control logic and distributed control systems
  • Skills in statistical and data analysis.
  • Experience working in technical teams and leading projects.
  • Intermediate to Advanced proficiency in MS Office and spreadsheet application

It will also be beneficial if you have:
  • Knowledge of copper processing principles
  • Knowledge of high temperature processes
  • Knowledge of electrochemical processes
  • Knowledge of processing equipment
  • Knowledge of project management and execution
  • Team working skills

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.

Rio Tinto Kennecott Copper

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.

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