Chief Mining Engineer - Underground

Chief Mining Engineer - Underground

• Lead Copper’s central technical team for Underground mining
• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
• Brisbane or Salt Lake City locations

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

Rio Tinto Copper is seeking a Chief Mining Engineer - Underground to join our Central Technical group and provide technical leadership across our underground portfolio consisting of world class operating mines, development projects and future prospects. The central technical teams, reporting through to Copper’s Technical Director, exist in a matrixed structure to provide high level subject matter expertise to the assets, as well as governance and assurance processes, life of asset planning and major risk/hazard management.

Rio Tinto Copper’s portfolio comprises some of the world’s most technologically advanced underground mines and projects including Oyu Tolgoi, Resolution, Kennecott and La Granja. As the product group’s most experienced underground SME, this role will be a key advisor on industry best practice when it comes to the various mining methods and relaying this expertise through influence and collaboration with the Operations and the Centre of Expertise (CoE).

Reporting to the Technical Director, and leading a team of highly capable and experienced underground mining professionals, your key responsibilities will include:

• Championing leading practice underground safety in design, construction and operations
• Providing world class expertise in tactical and strategic mine planning and design
• Providing mining technical leadership and direction to all underground studies, projects and operations, evaluating and delivering best for business outcomes
• Contributing to the development of functional strategies, across medium to long term asset planning horizons
• Leading continuous improvement and innovation initiatives and programs
• Building organisational capability across all aspects of underground mining with a focus on caving and stoping
• Improving the underground mining process and the way that Rio Tinto manages underground technical risks
• Enabling initiatives to drive integration of risk into core decision making processes
• Managing key stakeholder relationships where there are strong site and group wide interfaces with the work
• Ensuring all Group initiatives (Standards & Guidelines) are incorporated into the work of Technical & Studies including project reviews
• Ensuring appropriate governance structures are established to provide assurance over technical decisions that can materially impact the business

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• A track record of leading directly and through influence as a well regarded people leader
• Extensive mining engineering experience in complex underground mining environments
• Demonstrated ability working collaboratively in a global, multidisciplinary environment
• Demonstrated success with leading and managing technical personnel
• A high-level of complex problem solving skills, including continuous improvement and providing innovative solutions
• Demonstrated effective stakeholder engagement, influencing and management skills

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
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical programs, pension and savings plans
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts

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 almost 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.

Every Voice Matters

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.

Applications close on Wednesday 2^nd August (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)