Senior Engineer- Strategic Mine Planning
Company: Rio Tinto
Location: Salt Lake City
Posted on: April 30, 2024
Job Description:
Senior Engineer- Strategic Mine Planning
- A company with a world-class reputation for safety and
performance
- Develop and communicate mid-range mine plans to key
stakeholders for the Bingham Canyon's mineral deposit.
- Excellent opportunity to develop your career and further
develop your technical expertise - Bingham Canyon Mine- Salt Lake
City, UT About the role Finding better ways to provide the
materials the world needs. We are looking for aSenior Engineer-
Strategic Mine Planning to be a key member of the Mine Technical
team. The responsibility of this role will be to support the
development of mine plans and strategies to maximize value of the
Bingham Canyon resource and mitigate business risk. Ensure that
mine plans between the major planning horizons are integrated to
ensure no leak of value and that significant risks associated with
achieving mine plans are communicated. The role's main task is to
support the development of mine plans across the long-range
planning horizons and underlying assumptions for integrated mining
cases and business forecasting. Develop material delivery
sequences, mine fleet requirements and estimates for capital and
operating cost suitable for inclusion into mid-range and life of
mine plans. This role is a great opportunity, you will actively
work with multiple stakeholders across the value stream to
facilitate best practice and develop mine planning skills in
production scheduling and mine design. Supporting the long-range
planning teams, you will be responsible for: Long-range- Senior
Engineer planning functions including:
- Lead a small team of engineers; guiding their work and
supporting their development.
- Utilize mine planning and scheduling tools to create optimal
mine designs and schedules.
- Develop underlying assumptions for incorporation into business
plans.
- Effectively communicate the mine plans to allow management to
make the best possible decisions.
- Work with Hydrology, Geotech and Geology personnel to assure
safe and optimal mine designs.
- Communicate with management on progress of planning and design
as well as special projects.
- Work with representatives from the rest of the value chain to
properly model production and to support projects outside of the
mine that require inputs from the mine plan.
- Work with the concentrator, tailings, smelters and production
support to obtain design criteria, costs, performance objectives,
and constraints
- Develop mine plans and waste dump plans at the appropriate
level of detail to optimize long-term objectives and meet short
term commitments What you'll bring To succeed in this role, you
will have:
- Bachelors degree in Mining Engineering or equivalent
- 5+ Years Mine planning experience in large open cut mining
environments or complex poly-metallic value chains.
- Requires excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills to
effectively communicate with employees at all levels of the
organization.
- 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 management and peers across the value
stream.
- Ability to solve and communicate technical problems with
practical solutions.
- Requires strong reasoning and critical thinking.
- Must demonstrate proficiency in computer applications,
including MineSight and Excel. Must exhibit a strong understanding
of mining principles.
- Exposure to production scheduling systems and processes (COMET,
MineSight MPSO, Deswik) will be beneficial
- Training: MineSight (or equivalent mine planning software),
Excel, PowerPoint What we offer We are committed to providing our
employees witha 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 Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company.
We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper,
aluminium, critical minerals and other materials needed for the
global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations
to thrive. We have been mining for 150 years and operate with
knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose
is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs -
striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce
materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social
and governance standards. But we can't do it on our own, so we're
focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win
and meet opportunities. 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, Veterans and active-duty armed forces, 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 for more information. We
are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel
comfortable being 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.
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