Senior Manager Technical Services

Senior Manager Technical Services

• Exciting senior leadership role as part of the world class Oyu Tolgoi Underground Mine in Mongolia
• Excellent career opportunity to work for a leading global organisation
• Dynamic work culture and great exposure to multicultural teams
• Residential in Mongolia

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Manager Technical Services  to lead mine technical services and geoscience teams in a safe, effective, and efficient manner. The role is accountable for providing high level leadership to the underground technical and planning functions, drill & blast engineering, surveying, ventilations, and geoscience teams.

This role is a great opportunity for an energetic and performance driven operational leader who is keen to work within a technologically advanced and cost competitive organisation.

Working residential in Ulaanbaatar from Mon-Fri and reporting to General Manager Technical and Integrated Planning, you will be:

• Leading a safety culture of continuous improvement and always maintaining a high-level leadership.
• A confident and inclusive communicator with demonstrated experience of building and developing large teams.
• Manage the delivery of technical, planning, and geotechnical services to key stakeholders.
• Use of technical knowledge within mine operations and relevant stakeholders to identify solutions to address risks, protect the plan and implement opportunities to enhance value.
• Applying Business Improvement methodologies, systems and tools to drive improvement of standards, systems and processes.

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have the following:

• Experience of at least 15 years in the resources industry
• Mining Engineering or Geoscience Degree
• Demonstrated significant operational experience in leading a mining technical team
• Large scale mining with preference to UG caving experience
• Have a deep commitment and passion for developing people
• Have strong communication skills and proven ability to engage and build relationships across multiple layers of the organization.

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Previous international work experience
• Post graduate qualification.
• Professional, industry and technical associations (AUSIMM, etc.)

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority,
• International visa assistance,
• Competitive package including annual incentive and living allowance,
• Career development to further your ambitions,
• Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs,
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program,
• Employee Assistance Program,
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matter, and
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/ annual, paid parental, sick leave).

About us

Joining the Rio Tinto Oyu Tolgoi Surface Operations team is a great opportunity to be part of one of the most exciting developments in copper and gold mining for several decades. The mine contains reserves and resources that make it one of the world’s largest copper-gold deposits.

This mega mine is a major contributor to Mongolia’s development. As part of the Rio Tinto Oyu Tolgoi team, you have the ability to contribute to something significant and learn and develop both personally and professionally. We offer a collaborative, high performing environment where success is achieved by working together.

Discover more about Mongolia and Oyu Tolgoi

Mongolia is increasingly becoming a destination for tourism and expatriate residents. As a rapidly developing city, Mongolia’s capital Ulaanbaatar is seen as a comfortable, yet exciting place to live. With an array of cultural and social activities available and a growing network of international schools, housing options, and leisure facilities, its home to a growing community of international expatriates.

Located in the South Gobi Desert, just 80 kilometres from the Chinese border, the Oyu Tolgoi mine and camp is a large, well-run and comfortable site with multiple amenities including recreational and sports facilities, a cinema, shops, restaurants and bars, catered to a growing community. For more information about OT site, please check out this video.

Where you’ll be working

Oyu Tolgoi is an operating copper/gold open pit and underground mine. The site is located in the Gobi Desert region of Mongolia. The reserves case for the underground mine is in the order of 0.5 billion tonnes of ore to be mined from the 95,000 tonne-per-day Hugo North Lift 1 panel cave mine, with a 20-year operational life. There is also the potential for 3 further block cave districts which will increase the mine life beyond 100 years. 

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ 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.

Job application closes on July 7, 2024