Specialist Engineer Mining

Specialist Engineer Mining

• Use your technical skills to improve productivity while building on your Leadership capability
• Attractive salary, annual incentive program and a huge range of employee benefits and discounts designed to make life better
• Permanent full-time opportunity based in Brisbane   

About the roleFinding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.  

As a Specialist Engineer Mining, you will lead and coordinate the Integrated Planning process across the Bauxite mining value chain, ensuring alignment between operational planning horizons and enabling functions.

Key Responsibilities 

Reporting to the Integrated Planning Manager, the Specialist Engineer Mining plays a pivotal role in;

• Governing Integrated Mine Planning processes, ensuring consistency, integration, and quality across planning inputs and outputs.
• Facilitating cross-functional planning integration, engaging with stakeholders such as Sustaining Capital, Closure, Refineries, Land & Rehabilitation, and Finance to ensure planning reflects business priorities and constraints.
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives that enhance planning efficiency, data quality, and stakeholder collaboration.
• Supporting scenario development and reconciliation, enabling informed decision-making across strategic and operational horizons.
• Championing integrated planning governance, ensuring processes are well-documented, repeatable, and aligned with Rio Tinto standards.
• Providing insights and recommendations based on planning performance trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Undertaking projects that support the integrated planning process across sites, including business case analysis, productivity initiatives, and other improvement opportunities.

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Tertiary Qualifications in Mining Engineering or similar from an accredited institution.
• Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy CP and / or Board of Professional Engineers RPEQ status
• Ideally a minimum of four (5) years mining experience, with at least three (3) years in open cut mining.
• Experience in other facets within the mining industry, aside from mining engineering, will also be highly regarded
• Excellent numerical analysis and data validation skills
• Knowledge of relevant mining legislation and industry practices
• Detailed understanding of Truck & Loaders design, scheduling and operation
• Practical understanding of all other open pit mining design, scheduling and operation
• High level proficiency in basic business software (Excel, Word and PowerPoint or similar)
• Advanced proficiency in Deswik & Power Bi
• The motivation and ability to be self-driven and work autonomously 

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 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 if required

Our surface mining team is dedicated to planning, executing, and improving surface mining processes while prioritizing safety and efficiency. We are committed to fostering a collaborative environment where every team member's contribution is valued, and where professional growth and development are encouraged. 

In addition to paying competitively and providing great benefits packages, we want you to live the lifestyle that is right for you and your family. And because of our size and scale, there are many opportunities to learn, grow and do more than you ever thought possible.Every hour of every shift, your safety and wellbeing is our number one priority. We do the work only if it is safe, and we invest to make sure every member of the team has the quality tools they need to do their job. 

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About Rio TintoRio 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 situations and meet opportunities.

Every Voice MattersAt 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.