Data Scientist

• Diverse & challenging global projects with our team
• Utilise your hands-on coding skills in Python and/or R
• Work in a flexible work environment where we prioritise a healthy work / life balance

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We have an opportunity for a Data Scientist to work on challenging and exciting analytics problems and make a positive impact to the business, while working closely with the data science community of excellence in developing the Data Science specialisation within Rio Tinto and our team.

You will be regularly challenged and given support to drive innovation and embed best practice!

Reporting to the Principal PRiME Product Owner you will support the PRiME data analytics team to design and continually improve solutions that solve business problems and provide insight to making improved decisions for our business. The role will entail the below responsibilities:

• Provide expertise on statistical, mathematical, and machine learning concepts and conduct research, design, implement and validate cutting-edge algorithms and predictive statistical models in order to extract information from diverse data sources
• Utilise statistics and introductory machine learning methods to identify key data features
• Engineer data pipelines from source systems to predictive models
• Develop interfaces that visualise information for business users
• Ensure best in class processes and techniques to develop and deploy industrialised data analytic solutions
• Ensure the quality assurance and quality control of all data analytics products released to the business
• Engage with clients and key stakeholders to understand how data analytics can be used to solve business problems
• Foster an innovative and 'disruptive' technology culture to identify and drive value creating opportunities
• Support other data science teams to use PRiME datasets and mining data in a sustainable and governed manner
• Use your technical knowledge to determine the complexity of identified opportunities
• Provide training and knowledge transfer to support the deployment and continuity of the analytics products developed

What you will bring

Ideally you will have a postgraduate qualification in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science or related field, combined with several years' experience in data science projects, preferably using agile methodologies across the mining industry.

You should also have experience with some or all of the below:

• Commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Implementation of data science projects, including familiarity with machine learning libraries, and frameworks
• Proven analytical skills
• An ability to translate data into meaningful questions and insights
• Software engineering experience (desirable)
• Cloud experience (desirable)
• Experience in parallel processing architectures, inclusive of the use Hadoop and/ or Spark (desirable)

What we offer

Be recognised 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 permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Company provided insurance cover
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
• Leave for all of life's reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)

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

The PRiME Data Analytics team based in Perth is focused on building value chain insight models, grounded in Theory of Constraints (System Value Theory), with the goal of using data analytics to inform discussion around where to focus priorities to unlock value.

We are in the pioneering stage of our analytics journey and so this is an opportunity to establish best practices and help setup the team and product roadmap for success.

By partnering with Rio Tinto product groups and functions, our team is developing innovative ideas to solve problems and enable better decisions through data analytics.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ 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.