Job Description

Senior Mine Infrastructure Planner (Mine Engineer Discipline)

• Our culture is inclusive, exciting, and performance-driven
• Contribute to the success of Rio Tinto/IOC by applying your technical and professional expertise
• Position can be based in Labrador City, NL or St. John\xe2\x80\x99s, NL

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Senior Mine Infrastructure Planner at our Labrador City operations. The successful candidate will be tasked with the direction and technical leadership of other short-range planners with a focus on mine infrastructure. This includes: mine communications systems (i.e. LTE, fibre optics), power distribution, dewatering, mine roads, and dump planning. The successful candidate would be considered as a part of succession planning for the Superintendent of Mine Planning and provide periodic vacation coverage. They would also sponsor capital projects relating to the mine infrastructure portfolio.

Reporting to the Superintendent of Mine Planning at our Labrador City operations, this role is a great opportunity to be responsible for a small team (3+ employees) and the efficient design of mine infrastructure. The role includes:

• Ensuring health, safety, and environment needs are given a top priority in the planning of tasks
• Ensure critical risks are identified in the planning process with appropriate controls accounted for so the work can be performed safely and effectively. This includes classification of haul routes for down hill haulage risks and evaluation of intersections for collision risks.
• Technical leadership of the mine infrastructure planning team, including coaching and performance management
• Manage workflow related to the design and scheduling of mine communications, power distribution, dewatering, and haul road construction/maintenance
• Mine design \xe2\x80\x93 bench, lift, stockpile, and road designs, other mine features as required
• Haulage profile and cycle time analysis
• Management of contractors, consultants and vendors as required
• Participation in continuous improvement initiatives
• Planning and sponsorship of mine infrastructure capital projects
• Budgeting of mine infrastructure operating expenditures

Please note: Fly-in-fly-out arrangements are not available. Relocation assistance is provided if applicable.

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.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry\xe2\x80\x99s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

What you\xe2\x80\x99ll bring

• Registered or eligible for a Professional Engineering designation in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in the discipline of Mining Engineering
• Experience in an industrial environment and knowledge of open pit mining techniques
• Strong computer skills including the Microsoft Office Suite

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• 5+ years of experience in mine planning, mine operations or mine projects.
• Site base mining experience
• Familiarity or experience with mine (open pit) survey techniques, drill & blast design, fleet management, dispatch systems, etc.
• Experience with mine scheduling, including knowledge of suites such as Deswik Suite
• Knowledge of 3D mine design software, such as Maptek Vulcan or Deswik.CAD
• Experience with mine dewatering, power distribution, communications systems, or haul road construction and maintenance

What we offer

Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you\xe2\x80\x99ve helped the world progress.

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical programs, pension and savings plans
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Leave for all of life\xe2\x80\x99s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts
• Domestic relocation assistance

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 \xe2\x80\x93 striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can\xe2\x80\x99t do it on our own, so we\xe2\x80\x99re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win and meet opportunities.

Where you\xe2\x80\x99ll be working

We are a leading North American producer and exporter of premium iron ore pellets and high-grade concentrate with average iron grades greater than 66%. With a team of over 2,700 employees, IOC is committed to providing value and continuity for our customers, employees, communities and shareholders through our unique mine to port approach, taking advantage of our full integration and wholly owned infrastructure to deliver our high-quality concentrate and pellets to our customers across the globe.

IOC\xe2\x80\x99s operations include a mine with five operational pits, a concentrator and a pelletizing plant located near Labrador City in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. We also operate a wholly-owned 418 km railway, the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway (QNS&L), that links our Labrador operations to Company-owned port facilities in Sept-Iles.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA2 community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

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 \xe2\x80\x93 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.

Working at Rio Tinto also means choosing to be part of a company designated as one of Canada\'s Top 100 Employers in 2023 for a 4th consecutive year. For more information, click here:

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