Job Description

Senior Mine Infrastructure Planner (Mining Engineering Discipline)

• Our culture is inclusive, exciting, and performance-driven
• Opportunity to experience northern Canada though a small yet active town
• Contribute to the success of Rio Tinto/IOC by applying your technical and professional expertise
• Role Based in Labrador City

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Mine Infrastructure Planner at our Labrador City operations working Monday to Friday - 40 hours per week. 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.

We are an open, connected international team of technical specialists using some of the most exciting data and tools on the planet. We are the world leader in automation and smart mining. 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

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 - 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

What you'll bring

To succeed in this role, you will require:

• 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've 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's reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls 'progress' begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers - generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress.

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium - the world's first to be certified "responsible" - helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities, and our boron helps feed the world and explore the universe. Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

Where you will 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 2,400 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's 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 - 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.

Please note, to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.