Principal Advisor Resource Evaluation

Principal Adviser Resource Evaluation

• Join Rio Tinto Exploration and enjoy a broad project portfolio across various commodities, project lifecycle stages and stakeholder groups
• Work with an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
• Grow your career as part of a globally connected workforce 

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

Rio Tinto Exploration is seeking a Principal Adviser Resource Evaluation to join our Resource & Commodity Knowledge (RCK) group. RCK provides technical evaluation across exploration projects from early stage to advanced projects with a focus on resource sensitivities, value, and risk identification. Through orebody knowledge, RCK unlocks value and develops optionality. This role will see you lead the resource evaluation scope of work.

We are an open, connected international team of technical specialists using some of the most exciting data and tools on the planet. Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.

We have technical development programmes that are industry-leading and recognise the unique nature of your role. These provide opportunities to grow your career through a dedicated technical path while being rewarded for your unique skills.

Reporting to the Senior Manager Resource Evaluation & Development and working as part of a globally connected team, your main accountability is to develop a range of mining scenarios that identify risk and highlight opportunities to meet Rio Tinto Exploration’s (RTX) business needs and generative programs. Providing technical assurance and guidance to the business for informed decision making is a key task in this position. You will:

• Develop mine plans and schedules that optimize RTX project resources
• Identify risks/opportunities relative to key value drivers (orebody knowledge, mine designs, CAPEX & OPEX, productivity and recovery assumptions)
• Identify, analyse, and effectively communicate potential value-adding opportunities to various stakeholders (senior leaders, technical reviewers, managers, and peers)
• Support the development of business cases for capital expenditure and project justifications, clearly communicating context and reasoning
• Implement tools and standardized processes to accurately model and optimize the value stream for a variety of commodities
• Participate in Merger and Acquisition (M&A) due diligence

What you’ll bring

Your strong stakeholder management and engagement skills will see you excel in this position. You will utilise your experience in mine planning to drive resource evaluation initiatives across a broad project portfolio, which includes various commodities, project lifecycle phases and stakeholder groups. You will also bring:

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Tertiary qualifications in Engineering, GeoScience or equivalent
• Proven experience in mine planning (short range, long range, and strategic planning)
• Ability to develop realistic conceptual plans when orebody knowledge is limited
• A strong understanding of production scheduling systems, business value drivers and financial analysis
• Ability to breakdown and communicate complex conclusions to senior leadership
• Previous mine planning experience across various commodities is advantageous, though not essential

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’ll be working

Rio Tinto's Exploration group seeks to create value for the business by discovering or acquiring new mineral resources. Organized into four regional teams (Americas, Australasia, Africa-Europe and Eurasia), the Exploration group provides both a global reach and a local presence across a range of commodities including bauxite, copper, iron ore, nickel and uranium.

As a global role, there is an ongoing requirement for flexible hours outside the standard working day to support colleagues in alternative time zones. The ability to schedule your time flexibly around this requirement will be offered in return.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

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Applications close on 17 July 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).