Senior Mining Engineer

at  RIO Tinto

SENIOR MINING ENGINEER

• Advance your career in a dynamic, fast paced team environment
• Family friendly roster (9 Day Fortnight) – Be home each night!
• Residential role – You will live in Weipa a beautiful coastal community in Far North QLD
• Full domestic relocation available from within Australia

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

This is a newly created position, reporting to the Operations Planning Superintendent, the main components of achieving the minimum required standard include:

• Assisting in the development of ‘control of excavation’ instructions, fostering safe and economically efficient recovery of ore reserves through close collaboration with technical and operations teams.
• Responsible for maintaining production monitoring and reporting systems, enabling the tracking of mining operations performance and identification of opportunities for enhancing quality and productivity
• Provide direct functional leadership to team members, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. Offer coaching and mentoring to new engineers and graduates, fostering their professional growth and integration into the team.
• Monitoring variances against the short and medium-term mine schedule, recommending adjustments as needed, and actively participating in technical risk assessments to contribute to the development of procedures aimed at mitigating technical risks