Engineer – Mine Scheduling
- Opportunity to work with a leading open cut mine with the Mine Planning team
- Develop and communicate mine plans to key stakeholders for the Bingham Canyon’s mineral deposit.
- Excellent opportunity to develop your career and further develop your technical expertise – Salt Lake City, UT
About the role
Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.
We are looking for an Engineer – Mine Scheduling to be a key member of the Mine Scheduling and Projects team. The responsibility of this role will be to support the development of short-range mine plans and strategies to maximize value of the Kennecott Open Pit Mine and mitigate business risk.
In this role, you will actively work with multiple stakeholders across the value stream to facilitate best practice and develop mine planning skills in production scheduling. Reporting to the Senior Engineer – Mine scheduling, your functions will include:
- Utilize mine planning and scheduling tools to create optimal mine designs and schedules.
- Evaluate the success of mining plans through effective reconciliation.
- Working with the Concentrator schedulers, Ore Body Knowledge and Integrated Operations teams to optimize the Ore delivery and processing strategies.
- Work with Geotechnical and Geology personnel to assure safe and optimal mine designs and plans.
- Effectively communicate the 2week plan to key stakeholders at varying level of detail, highlighting opportunities and risks.
What you’ll bring
To succeed in this role, you will have:
- S. Degree in Mining Engineering or equivalent
- 2-3+ years’ experience working in a large open pit mine environment as a mine planner or similar role
- Experience working in mine operational or technical teams
- Experience leading the development or implementation of mine plans
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with employees at all levels of the organization
- Strong communication, reasoning, and critical thinking skills
It will also be beneficial if you have:
- Experience with Minesight (Atlas and MSSO) or similar mine design program
- Experience with RTVis
- Intermediate proficiency in MS Office
What we offer
Be recognized 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.
- Competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with an annual incentive bonus.
- Access to top-tier family-friendly health programs including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life insurance coverage, and various voluntary benefits.
- Excellent retirement plan including up to 6% defined company contribution; Generous 401k matching program.
- Attractive share ownership plan.
- Comprehensive leave policies which cover all the moments that matter in life: PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave.
- A generous parental leave policy, which ensures you’re able to spend quality time with your new family.
- Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing.
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), which provides confidential counselling or expert guidance for you and your family to help get through life’s challenges
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.
Where you’ll be working
Our Kennecott mine is a world-class, fully integrated copper mining operation, including a concentrator, smelter and refinery, located just outside Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States. We produce copper, precious metals including gold and silver, molybdenum and sulfuric acid. Kennecott has been mining and processing minerals from the rich ore body of the Bingham Canyon Mine since 1903, and is one of the top producing mines in the world, comprising approximately 11 percent of U.S. annual copper production.
Every Voice Matters
At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQ+ community, mature workers, Veterans and active-duty armed forces, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.
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We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable being 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.
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