Engineer - Mine Water Management

Engineer - Mine Water Management (MWM) – Brockman Operations - Pilbara

• Excellent scope for career progression
• Work for a collaborative and open-minded leader who encourages and supports career growth and development
• Share your technical knowledge and passion for improvement in this collaborative role

About the role

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

A truly unique opportunity exists for an experienced Water Management Engineer or Advisor to join our Mine Water Management Operations Team at Brockman 4.

This is your chance to develop and strengthen your long or short-term planning skills for Rio Tinto’s Maintenance Optimisation Projects. You will also develop and manage productivity and cost improvement initiatives for the site, while driving the implementation of the MWM plan. You will also ensure that MWM infrastructure is implemented and operated to achieve the approved standard of performance to enable safe mining, environmentally compliant, and sustainable operation.

This role is an integral part of the MWM team offering plenty of opportunities for your development. This role will allow you to expand your knowledge of all functions within an operational mining environment and gain invaluable experience to continue growing your operational engineering career.

The role will suit someone who is curious and passionate about driving continuous change, can embrace out of the box thinking and with the ability to challenge the status quo! Every day our people grow, while our rosters are designed to help you live the lifestyle that is right for you and your family.

Reporting to the Mine Water Management (MWM) Superintendent, you will:

• Adhere to all Rio Tinto Health and Safety standards, policies and procedures and report any safety hazards and risks to the appropriate channels
• Support improvement projects relating to network optimisation (pumps, pipework, metering), ‘supply’ projects and other projects within network (i.e. discharge network, metering) as the Sustaining Capital project interface
• Consistently identifies opportunities to improve and socialises these accordingly
• Able to lead initiatives and incorporate appropriate risk management frameworks
• Conformance to quarterly plans
• Up-to-date network schematic including key offtakes and infrastructure locations
• Operational water balance metered within 10% health, including main water users (plant, dust suppression, discharge points etc)
• Improvements in defect elimination, non-compliance, non-conformance from an asset performance perspective
• Demonstrated improvement in site-wide water efficiency

This position is based at our Brockman 4 site working on a fly in, fly out roster 8 days on, 6 days off.

About you

The right candidate must have demonstrated operational exposure in mine water management, mine operations or technical mining engineering roles within a large open pit mining environment.

In addition, you will have:

• A good understanding of the fundamental concepts that underpin value in the MWM and mining industry space
• Exceptional relationship building skills coupled with your ability to engage and collaborate effectively with a diverse range of business partners will also ensure your success in this role
• A manual ‘C’ class driver’s license
• A degree or tertiary qualification in mechanical or electrical engineering is desirable

What we offer

We are an open, connected international team of technical specialists using some of the most exciting data and tools on the planet. We are the world leader in automation and smart mining. We have technical development programmes that are industry-leading and recognise the unique nature of your role. These provide opportunities to grow your career through a dedicated technical path while being rewarded for your unique skills.

Be recognised for your contribution, your critical thinking, and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world advance by producing the materials essential to human progress

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A competitive salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees
• Attractive share ownership plan and extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
• 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)
• Domestic relocation assistance provided for residential applicants

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.

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.

Applications close Monday 30^th January 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)