Senior Engineer Strategic Production Planning

SENIOR ENGINEER - STRATEGIC PRODUCTION PLANNING

• Rare opportunity to contribute to the long-term strategic direction of Rio Tinto’s Copper business
• Global, collaborative, and inclusive working environment
• Permanent full-time role – Brisbane Base preferred

About the role

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

We are looking for a Senior Engineer - Strategic Production Planning to work collaboratively within the Rio Tinto Copper business to provide analysis and production modelling to support the strategic production planning process including resource development studies.

This is a great opportunity for a professional to work within a supportive team with a high value global portfolio. You will gain exposure to senior leadership showcasing the strategic options available to develop and grow the Copper group’s asset base. This role will draw on your strong technical capability, creative thinking, and experience to further enhance the long-term value of our business.

Reporting to the Principal Engineer Strategic Production Planning, you will be:

• Using industry leading software to define strategic pathways across various mining methods and processing pathways.
• Sourcing, validating, and interpreting data across all areas of the value chain.
• Developing and reconciling mining production models, producing schedules for strategic production planning analysis.
• Collaborating and engaging with a broad range of stakeholders.
• Using your knowledge and experience to develop inputs and assumptions to quantitatively define problem sets.
• Working within a connected international team of technical specialists.

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.

What you will bring

• Direct experience in the mining industry is preferred.
• Experience and understanding of open cut mine design and long-term planning.
• Familiarity and ability to use a mining software package.
• Ability to use Lerch-Grossman, psuedoflow, COMET, or another linear programming optimisation tool.
• Bachelor’s degree in Mining, Processing, Geology, Optimisation, or a similar technical discipline.
• Exposure to resource development studies, business improvement, or transformation projects.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and any other data analysis packages.

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.
• Flexible approach to work catering for individual needs.
• 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).
• Possible domestic relocation assistance.

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 on Wednesday 26^th of April 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).