Senior Production Engineer

Senior Production Engineer – Robe Valley

• Real opportunity to extend your operational leadership experience and advance your career
• Work for a supportive leader who genuinely cares about the development of their team
• Great opportunity working across multiple sites and with one of our biggest mining teams in the Pilbara
• Diverse exposure across autonomous and manual operations

About the role

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

A truly unique opportunity exists for an enthusiastic and motivated Senior Mine Production Engineer to join our Robe Valley mine operations team. With cutting edge technology at your fingertips and support of the brightest minds in the industry you will guide and mentor a small technical team to ensure the safe development and delivery of mine productivity and cost improvement initiatives.

Leading on the frontline is one of the most important jobs in our business and comes with a huge amount of responsibility. We need you to motivate, inspire and keep your people safe and well. With signature leadership training programmes, growing, and developing is more than an opportunity – it is something we actively plan and make happen. Every day our leaders grow, while our rosters are designed to help you live the lifestyle that is right for you and your family.

As an integral part of the operational leadership team, 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 leadership career. This position will suit someone who is curious, passionate about driving continuous change, can embrace out of the box thinking and with the ability to challenge the status quo!

Reporting to the Manager Mine Operations, you will:

• Work closely with the operations team to drive improvement projects with a specific focus on safety, productivity, and asset utilisation
• Collaborate with internal partners across mining technical services, dewatering, fixed plant, and mobile equipment maintenance to achieve the mine plan
• Provide coaching, mentoring and support to the production engineers, mine planning engineers and operations teams to ensure optimisation of the mine operations
• Utilise accurate data analysis to drive cost reductions and efficiencies
• Promote a culture of safety and provide input into critical risk management and incident investigation processes
• Demonstrate the Rio Tinto values of Courage, Care, and Curiosity

What you’ll bring

You will have tertiary qualifications in mining engineering and/ or demonstrated experience in mine production, mine operations or technical mining engineering roles within a large open pit mining environment. You will be someone who thrives on a challenge, can think outside of the box, and has a good understanding of the fundamental concepts that underpin value in the mining industry. Your 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 licence will be required and a WA Unrestricted Quarry Manager’s Certificate or the ability to obtain one will be well regarded. Prior experience with autonomous haulage systems will also be advantageous.

What we offer

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 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 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.

Where you will be working 

This position is offered on a FIFO 5/2; 4/3 roster either FIFO out of Perth or the option of residential in Pannawonica.  

Robe Valley operations are located in the West Pilbara and operates across 2 mine sites – Mesa A and Mesa J. Our sites operate over 20 autonomous trucks and manage mine fleet across 4 crushers managing the Robe Valley standalone products. Many team members reside in the town of Pannawonica which offers a perfect family friendly lifestyle with access to Pannawonica Primary School which is a proud STEM school and recently won the Meritorious Leadership Award in the Governor’s School STEM Awards. This extremely safe community enjoys a wide range of seasonal outdoor activities and is the closest Rio Tinto township to the coast; allowing you to find the perfect balance between leisure and work.

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 30 September 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)