Senior Mine Planning Engineer - Drill And Blast

Senior 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

About the role

We are looking for a Mine Planning Engineer 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 leak of value and that significant risks associated with achieving mine plans are communicated.

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.

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 team to design and schedule drill and blast activities to align with mine development and production forecasts.

• Implementation of QA/QC program for drilling and blasting.

• Provides daily drilling and blasting proposals that optimize blast performance.

• Reviews the weekly and monthly mine plan and designs for drill and blast activities.

• Utilizing mine planning and scheduling tools to create optimal mine designs and plans.

• Evaluating the success of mining plans through effective reconciliation.

• Effectively communicating mine plans to key stakeholders to ensure alignment and understanding.

• Working with other mine teams (Geotech, Geology, Execution) to assure safe and optimal mine designs and plans.

• Working with the concentrator, tailings, smelters and production support to obtain design criteria, costs, performance objectives, and constraints.

• This role would require weekend coverage.

• Managing two direct reports

What you'll bring

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• B.S. Degree in Mining Engineering or equivalent

• 5+ years' experience working in a large open pit mine environment as a mine planner or similar role

• Ability to solve and communicate technical problems with practical solutions.

• Requires strong 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 leading technical mining projects

• Designing and scheduling drill and blast activities

• It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Experience with Minesight (Atlas and MSSO) or similar mine design program

• Intermediate to Advanced proficiency in MS Office

• Experience with lean, six-sigma, 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'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

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