Project Geoscientist

Project Geoscientist

• Join a winning team with an enviable track record of making key discoveries
• Inclusive and collegiate work environment where knowledge is freely shared
• Permanent Perth based opportunity with frequent field work

About the role

We are looking for a committed and enthusiastic Project Geoscientist to become a valued member of our Western Australia Greenfields team based in Belmont, Perth.

Our teams are tasked with discovery in Greenfield and Brownfield environments across a range of commodities and styles of mineralisation. You will have the opportunity to work on projects from very early-stage target testing through to more advanced stages of exploration. If you are a qualified geologist with relevant experience in the field and desire to travel extensively to regional and remote locations in Western Australia, this could be the role for you.

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.

Rio Tinto Exploration is committed to ensuring our staff are appropriately equipped to do the work we ask of them through comprehensive formal and on the job training. This is an excellent opportunity to build a career with Rio Tinto.

Reporting to the Principal Geologist and working in a collaborative community within the WA Greenfields Team, you will be:

• Supervising Greenfields exploration drilling programs ensuring activities are carried out safely and according to project requirements
• Ensuring that core and chip logging is done to the agreed standard and that logs are captured onto relevant geological database.
• Analysing, validating and interpreting geological data sets collected during field programs
• Assisting with the development of dynamic field (geological) models
• Setting and ensuring compliance with QAQC standards for geological data collection, analysis and interpretation
• Assisting with project planning, interpretation and reporting of exploration results
• Undertaking technical project work as required
• Demonstrate the Rio Tinto values of courage, care, and curiosity

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the Safety of yourself and the team
• Be a highly motivated geologist as evidenced by excellent tertiary qualifications in aspects of economic geology.
• Strong team-work skills and a positive energy to field work
• Be able to demonstrate that your strong technical strengths have developed and are/were utilised to benefit exploration activities in the years following university.
• At least two years relevant industry experience, including significant field time. Experience in working remotely is essential.
• Multi-commodity experience would be viewed favorably
• Experience in RC logging and rig supervision
• Strong skills in using GIS, Leapfrog and ioGas
• Demonstrated experience in interpreting geochemical data from drilling and sampling programmes
• Demonstrate your ability to quickly adopt and become fluent in work procedures and safety systems
• Strong communication skills and experience running pre-start meetings and contributing to tool-box safety meetings

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 competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees
• Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions
• Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs and pension plan
• Wellbeing benefits
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matter
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

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.

Where you’ll be working

Rio Tinto's Exploration group seeks to create value for the business by discovering or acquiring new mineral resources. Organised into three regional teams (Americas, Australasia, and Africa-Europe-Eurasia), the Exploration group provides both a global reach and a local presence across a range of commodities.

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 and respectful work 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 December 2^nd, 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

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