Practice Leader Surface Mining

at  RIO Tinto

PRACTICE LEADER SURFACE MINING

• Be part of a global mining organisation with an exceptional safety culture
• Be involved in driving Rio Tinto’s technical and operational capability in Surface Mining
• Further your career with a global mining organisation - Perth CBD

Group Technical, which is part of Rio Tinto’s Development and Technology (D&T) Group, guides the development of global operating practices, standards, guidelines and tools. We are looking for a Practice Leader Surface Mining in Group Technical’s Surface Mining Centre of Excellence to provide support to Rio Tinto’s Product Groups and improve the health of the discipline across Rio Tinto to have a material impact on the sustainability of Rio Tinto.
The D&T group operates through the entire life cycle of Rio Tinto’s mines and assets, creating value through exploration, project development and technical excellence. Working in close partnership with all product groups, it focuses on finding safer, smarter and more efficient ways to manage resources and operations.
This role is a great opportunity to provide operational and technical input, advice and support to studies, projects and operations across all the groups’ diverse portfolio with the aim to achieving leading practice safety, operational and financial performance.

Reporting to the Chief Advisor Surface Mining, Practice and Performance, you will be:

• Assisting to translate D&T strategies and models into a comprehensive discipline tactics for influencing and embedding operational plans across Rio Tinto surface operations and major project studies.
• Developing and maintaining, in collaboration with others, relevant written Group-wide solutions, guidelines, measures and metrics for surface mining activities and processes
• Providing expert surface mining operational and technical advice and direction to senior management of operations/projects for the management of key technical risks and opportunities
• Providing senior technical leadership, coaching and mentoring of other surface mining professionals to develop individual and team capabilities