Principal Production Engineer (Rio Tinto Cooper Oyu Tolgoi)

Principal Production Engineer (Rio Tinto Copper Oyu Tolgoi)

• Dynamic work culture and great exposure to multicultural teams 
• Be part of one the largest underground block cave projects globally
• Fantastic opportunity to apply Geoscience expertise in Mine Design and Studies

About the role:

We are looking for a Principal Production Engineer for our Rio Tinto Cooper technical and strategic mine planning function. Get involved in key projects for the world’s largest underground block cave mine, Oyu Tolgoi in Mongolia. You will play a key leadership role in the team focused on production forecasting, reconciliation, mid-range coordination and production governance and assurance.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry's best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

Reporting to the Manager Geoscience Studies, you will:

• Participate in establishing design constraints
• Anticipate internal and/or external business challenges and/or regulatory issues
• Recommend process, product, or service improvements
• Ensure the optimality and quality of company mine plans and forecasts through development of effective guidelines, coaching and quality assessment/quality control processes
• Provide careful and well thought-through assessments and communication of mining risks
• Work closely with the Finance team to provide accurate information for operational and business decision making
• Analyse business plans and identifies mining improvement and innovation areas
• Provide technical support to making decisions
• Balance key safety, business, operational, and geotechnical constraints to deliver value
• Determine root cause of bottlenecks in execution, caving, and/or resource/reserve in collaboration with the value chain
• Resolve complex problems for the underground Oyu Tolgoi Caving operation
• Responsible for carrying out engineering tasks and providing technical advice, in one or more of the following areas: materials handling, reserve calculations, ventilation, project engineering, and regulatory compliance
• Develops and applies engineering standards and procedures and provides advice on issues, including problem solving and the assessment of new technologies

What you will bring

Minimum Requirements:

• Mining Engineering Degree
• Demonstrated specialist skills through:
  • Operational, Study, and Execution experience for Underground Caving Operations
  • Experience in multiple caving operations to compare orebody characteristics with key design and risk parameters
    • Preferably multiple sites with long histories of demonstrated caving performance
  • Experience supporting robust risk management practices
  • Experience in large capital projects with high quantities of stakeholders
  • Experience in annual resource and reserves reporting

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, you’re 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
• 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)
• Relocation assistance where necessary

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 Rio Tinto Copper group is a global organisation with operations and projects in the U.S. (Kennecott Utah Copper, "RTKC", and Resolution Copper Project), Mongolia (Oyu Tolgoi), Simandou (Guinea) and Western Australia (Winu Cu-Au project). The portfolio also includes interests in a non-managed joint venture in Chile, in addition to exploration & evaluation interests and other minor investments. 

This role is based in Brisbane. We offer a flexible working arrangement with a balance of office-based and work from home. You will have the opportunity to travel on a periodic basis to Mongolia to visit the Oyu Tolgoi site. 

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 on Friday 28^th October 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)

Please note, to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.