Superintendent Resource Geology

Superintendent Resource Geology

• A great opportunity to be part of a multi-disciplinary geoscience team delivering the resources of the future
• Supportive team culture with a focus on people, capabilities, core work, business improvement, and partnerships
• Perth based role – Central Park, Perth CBD with the opportunity to establish a good work/life balance

About the roleWe are looking for two experienced Geoscientists to lead resource modelling teams within Rio Tinto Iron Ore. These roles present an exciting opportunity to be part of a Division evaluating Tier One iron ore deposits in one of the world’s great mineral provinces.

Each Superintendent Resource Geology will lead a combined geological modelling and resource estimation team within Resource Geology and Data Management, producing models for both internal and external use.

Based in Perth with some site travel to the Pilbara, this role has the following key responsibilities:

• Fostering a positive team culture and collaborating across departments and the broader technical community
• Developing your team’s capabilities
• Building relationships with internal and external business partners
• Delivering models and reports on time to multiple stakeholders
• Integrating new processes to deliver trusted models more rapidly
• Utilising reconciliation results to determine how models are performing and better understand the business exposure to risk

We’ll support and empower you to challenge yourself, learn from others, share your own ideas freely and achieve excellence in technical and leadership outcomes. You’ll get to manage your own team of specialists, and work with key stakeholders across Operations and Technical Support. Your team will deliver many Resource models that will ultimately become mines. We’ll be asking you to champion technical excellence and collaborate effectively and consistently across disciplines and departments. Your development is important, and we will support you to further build your skills and knowledge through a structured mix of experience, exposure, and education opportunities.

What you will bring

Ideally, the successful candidates will have the following qualifications and experience:

• Solid leadership and interpersonal skills
• The ability to develop your team’s capability in resource modelling practices
• A desire and enthusiasm to get involved, and to have a go, supported by a “can-do” attitude
• A thorough understanding of resource evaluation processes, from data collection to interpretation to modelling, using geological, geophysical, and geochemical methodologies
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively and build relationships across multiple stakeholders
• A degree in geology or an associated discipline is essential
• Advanced knowledge of iron ore geology and the Pilbara is desirable

In addition, you will have a passion for business improvement, innovation and technical excellence. The ability to successfully lead your team through change will be important.

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 culture to support flexible working options
• 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.

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, Rio Tinto undertakes expansive resource development programs that deliver the resources and reserves required to sustain our iron ore business. Rio Tinto operates the world's largest integrated portfolio of iron ore assets with industry-leading margins. Our premium product suite, including our flagship Pilbara blend, drives strong customer relationships and is supported by technical and commercial marketing expertise. The iron ore business continues to be the world's largest autonomous truck operator and a proud leader in automated mining technologies.

Where you will be working

You and your team will be Perth based with opportunity to work flexibly from home combined with time in our Central Park offices. Our wider Geoscience team is spread across a combination of Perth and Pilbara Resource Development sites. 

This role is open to both full time and part time applicants. Some visits to Pilbara sites will be required: however these can be accommodated on a very flexible basis.

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.

Advertising closes for this role on 9^th December 2022. (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)