Senior Metallurgist

Process Engineers / Metallurgists – Processing Studies - Perth based

• Join our Process Engineering Division providing technical support to studies teams

• Extend your technical or operational experience and contribute to the future of iron ore processing

• Enjoy flexible and agile working arrangements and other unique family benefits

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs. 

We are currently looking for a Senior Process Engineer / Senior Metallurgist to join our Processing Studies team. The role is technically focussed, applying best practice wet and dry processing knowledge into studies from concept through to feasibility stages. This role is Perth based with occasional site travel.

We are a high-performing, engaged team of technical specialists working within a structure that supports collaborative problem solving with the operating business. Our RTIO Process Engineering Division is dedicated to providing technical support to improve performance of our current and future operations, including our green steel pathway. Opportunities exist for technically focussed process engineers with career pathways to senior levels.

Reporting to the Principal Ore Processing Studies and working in a collaborative, diverse team, you will be:

• Providing processing leadership for inputs into studies from conceptual to feasibility stage
• Leading, supporting and developing team members
• Leading programs including sample processing, process modelling, metallurgical test work and analysis
• Using plant models and bench / pilot scale test work to develop and assess flowsheet options for new resource developments
• Sharing technical outcomes with multi-disciplinary teams as part of study work
• Developing Engineering inputs (e.g. Basis of Design, mass balance) and reviewing Engineering deliverables (Process Design Criteria, Process Flow Diagrams, Piping and Instrumentation diagrams, Process Control documentation)

What you’ll bring

• Background in process engineering or related technical discipline
• Ability to work across discipline and geographic boundaries, connecting people to collaboratively solve problems
• Experience in teams that have delivered improvements in safety and operating performance, and continuous improvement objectives
• Relevant tertiary qualifications (Process Engineering, Metallurgy, Chemical Engineering or equivalent)
• An analytical approach with strong problem solving, data analysis, report writing and presentations skills
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Experience with process flowsheet modelling and programming would be beneficial

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 team where safety (physical and psychological) is always the number one priority
• A competitive salary package 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 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 primary carer, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)

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 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.

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.

Applications close Wednesday 14th June 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)