Process Engineer OC Support

Process Engineer Perth based

• Join our Process Engineering Division, providing technical support to site and studies teams
• Extend your technical or operational experience and contribute to the future of iron ore processing
• Perth based roster - Monday to Friday

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are currently looking for a Process Engineer to join our central operational support team. Our OC Support team provides technical support and delivers process improvement initiatives across Rio Tinto Iron Ore. These roles are Perth based with occasional site travel.

We are a high-performing, engaged team of technical specialists working within a structure that supports collaborative problem solving with the operating business. Our new RTIO Process Engineering Division is dedicated to providing technical support to improve performance of our current and future operations, including our green steel pathway. Opportunities exist for operational and technically focussed process engineers with career pathways to senior levels.

 About the role

• Engaging stakeholders to provide technical process guidance and support across the value chain
• Identifying and implementing process improvement initiatives to support current and future strategy and driving best practice and cross site processing replication opportunities
• Providing subject matter expertise for processing unit operations across our existing and future dry, wet and concentrator processing plants
• Analysing unit operation and plant performance to understand processing potential across our operations
• Leading testwork programs including sample processing, process modelling, metallurgical test work and analysis

What you’ll bring

• Background in process engineering or related technical discipline with fixed plant operational experience
• Ability to work across discipline and geographic boundaries, connecting people to collaboratively solve problems
• Experience in teams that have delivered improvements in safety and operating performance, and continuous improvement objectives
• Relevant tertiary qualifications (Process Engineering, Metallurgy, Chemical Engineering or equivalent)
• An analytical approach with strong problem solving, report writing and presentations skills
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Experience with process flowsheet modelling and programming would be beneficial

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.

• A team where safety (physical and psychological) is always the number one priority
• A competitive salary package reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
• Attractive share ownership plan and extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid primary carer, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)

Where you will be working

Our integrated iron ore network is supported by our Operations Centre (OC) in Perth, a state-of-the-art facility that enables all the autonomous trucks, trains and drills at our mines, ports and rail systems to be operated from a single location. The Centre incorporates visualisation and collaboration tools to provide real-time information across our demand chain and allows us to optimise our mining, maintenance and logistic activities across the Pilbara in a way never before possible. Located near the Perth domestic airport, the OC operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to coordinate our integrated network of mines, rail, and ports from 1,500km away.

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 almost 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.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ 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.

Ready to experience something unique? Come work with us.

This role is for applicants residing in or willing to permanently relocate to Western Australia. 

Applications close on 24 January 2024 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)