Strategic Planning Director jobs in Salt Lake City, UT

Senior Engineer- Strategic Mine Planning

• A company with a world-class reputation for safety and performance
• Develop and communicate mid-range 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- Salt Lake City, UT

 About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Senior Engineer- Strategic Mine Planning to be a key member of the Mine Technical team. The responsibility of this role will be to support the development of mine plans and strategies to maximize value of the Bingham Canyon resource and mitigate business risk. 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.

The role's main task is to support the development of mine plans across the long-range planning horizons and underlying assumptions for integrated mining cases and business forecasting. Develop material delivery sequences, mine fleet requirements and estimates for capital and operating cost suitable for inclusion into mid-range and life of mine plans.

This role is a great opportunity, you will actively work with multiple stakeholders across the value stream to facilitate best practice and develop mine planning skills in production scheduling and mine design. Supporting the long-range planning teams, you will be responsible for: 

Long-range- Senior Engineer planning functions including:

• Lead a small team of engineers; guiding their work and supporting their development.
• Utilize mine planning and scheduling tools to create optimal mine designs and schedules.
• Develop underlying assumptions for incorporation into business plans.
• Effectively communicate the mine plans to allow management to make the best possible decisions.
• Work with Hydrology, Geotech and Geology personnel to assure safe and optimal mine designs.
• Communicate with management on progress of planning and design as well as special projects.
• Work with representatives from the rest of the value chain to properly model production and to support projects outside of the mine that require inputs from the mine plan.
• Work with the concentrator, tailings, smelters and production support to obtain design criteria, costs, performance objectives, and constraints
• Develop mine plans and waste dump plans at the appropriate level of detail to optimize long-term objectives and meet short term commitments

What you’ll bring

To succeed in this role, you will have: 

• Bachelors degree in Mining Engineering or equivalent
• 5 Years Mine planning experience in large open cut mining environments or complex poly-metallic value chains.
• Requires excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with employees at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to work in cross-functional and multi-disciplinary teams to ensure mine plans are integrated across ore body knowledge and the business.
• Strong communication skills including preparation of technical reports and presentations to management and peers across the value stream.
• Ability to solve and communicate technical problems with practical solutions.
• Requires strong reasoning and critical thinking.
• Must demonstrate proficiency in computer applications, including MineSight and Excel. Must exhibit a strong understanding of mining principles.
• Exposure to production scheduling systems and processes (COMET, MineSight MPSO, Deswik) will be beneficial
• Training: MineSight (or equivalent mine planning software), Excel, PowerPoint

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

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQ community, mature workers, Veterans and active-duty armed forces, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

Rio Tinto participates in E-Verify to confirm work authorization. Please visit http://www.uscis.gov/ for more information.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable being 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.