What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mine Planning Engineer position at Rio Tinto Group?
Mine Planning Engineer – Drill and Blast
- 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 - Bingham Canyon Mine based in Salt Lake City, Utah
About the role
Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.
We are looking for a Mining Engineer with a focus in Drill and Blast to join the Rio Tinto Kennecott team. The responsibility of this role will be to support the business and operations through technical evaluation, mine planning and performing specific projects that can be system wide or focused on individual site. Also, ensure that mine plans between the major planning horizons are integrated to ensure no loss of value and that significant risks associated with achieving mine plans are communicated.
This role would focus primarily in drill and blast activities with a secondary focus on mine planning and design work. You will be responsible for:
- Works with teams to schedule drill and blast activities to align with mine development and production forecasts.
- Supports the team to deliver daily drilling and blasting proposals.
- Supports the team to deliver the weekly and monthly mine plan for drill and blast activities.
- Utilizing mine planning and scheduling tools to create optimal mine designs, plans and pattern designs.
- Effectively communicating mine plans and pattern designs to key stakeholders to ensure alignment and understanding.
- Working with other mine teams (SR Planning, Geotech, Geology, Execution) to assure safe and optimal pattern designs and plans.
- Working with the concentrator, tailings, smelters and production support to obtain design criteria,
What you’ll bring
To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:
- A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
- S. Degree in Mining Engineering or equivalent
- 3 years’ experience working in a large open pit mine environment as a mine planner or similar role
- Ability to understand and communicate technical problems.
- Requires reasoning and critical thinking.
- Ability to work in cross-functional and multi-disciplinary teams to ensure mine plans are integrated across ore body knowledge and the business
- Experience working on technical mining projects
It will also be beneficial if you have:
- Experience with MinePlan (Atlas and MSSO) or similar mine design program
- Experience with MinePlan blast pattern editor or HxGnBlast
- Intermediate proficiency in MS Office
- Experience with management of change, and safety system programs
What we offer
We are committed to providing our employees with a generous benefits package. Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking, your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress, we provide:
- A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
- Advantageous salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees
- 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
- Generous Rio Tinto employee share program, which allows you to purchase Rio Tinto Company shares.
- Comprehensive leave policies which cover all moments that matter in life: PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave.
- A favorable child-caregiver leave program (Up to 100% salary top-up)
- Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing
- Ongoing Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family; to help in addressing educational opportunities, addiction treatment, depression, stress, domestic issues, financial management, and legal concerns.
- Our team and industry experts are here to support and work with you to explore your learning potential and career goals
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 will be working
Rio Tinto Kennecott is a fully integrated mining operation located just outside Salt Lake City, Utah, US. Kennecott is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto. For more than 110 years, Kennecott has been mining and processing minerals from the rich orebody of the Bingham Canyon Mine. Kennecott is a strong economic driver and strives to be a valuable community partner through strategic partnerships, charitable giving and sustainable development practices.
Every Voice Matters
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.
At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.
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