Senior Production Engineer

Senior Production Engineer

• Exciting and dynamic role in the Production Engineering team always seeking excellence
• Innovate, collaborate, and utilise your skills to lead safety & productivity improvements in the mining team
• Real opportunity to extend your operational leadership experience and advance your career
• FIFO role at Yandi on 8/6 roster from Perth, Busselton or Derby

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

A truly unique opportunity exists for an enthusiastic and motivated Senior Mine Production Engineer to join our dynamic Yandicoogina mining 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 in order to ensure the safe development and delivery of mine productivity and cost improvement initiatives for our Yandicoogina site.

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 Mining, 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 in order to achieve the mine plan
• Provide coaching, mentoring and support to the mine planning engineers and operations teams to ensure optimisation of the mine plans
• 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.

About You

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• A strong personal commitment to safety
• Tertiary qualifications in Mining Engineering or equivalent
• A manual ‘C’ class driver’s licence
• Minimum 5 years mining experience
• Demonstrated experience in mine production or technical mining engineering roles within a large open pit mining environment
• 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.
• Ability to lead safety & productivity improvement project work & drive improvements
• Ability to multi-task and prioritise tasks and negotiate accordingly
• Strong communication skills and interpersonal skills
• Intermediate computer skills (Microsoft Office: Word Document, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI) and reporting and analytics skills.

 It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Quarry manager ticket or ability to obtain one
• Prior experience with autonomous haulage systems will also be advantageous.

What we offer

• 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 and salary packaging options
• Career development and 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)

Where you’ll be working

Located 95km north-west of Newman, Yandicoogina offers a range of fly in fly out rosters. As one of Australia's largest-producing iron ore mines; operating a fleet of autonomous trucks and drills, it generates more than 55 million tonnes of Hammersley Iron Yandi (HIY) fines each year.

Yandicoogina is known for its culture of teamwork, can-do attitude and pioneering spirit, leading the way with innovation and technological advances in autonomous operations and robotics.

Applications close on 8th May 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

This role is for applicants residing in or willing to permanently relocate to Western Australia.

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.