Senior Manager – Resource Evaluation & Development

Senior Manager – Resource Evaluation & Development

• Exciting opportunity to join a global organization at the forefront of mining projects
• Opportunity to expand your underground mining experience
• Excellent work environment where people are valued and respected
• Permanent opportunity based in Salt Lake City, Utah or Brisbane, Australia

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Senior Manager – Resource Evaluation & Development to be responsible for creating and protecting value and accelerating the rate of discovery through global leadership within technical resource evaluation disciplines.

This is a great opportunity for a person with significant resource evaluation experience to lead Rio Tinto Explorations’ (RTX) team of subject matter experts, each with high technical competency within the resource evaluation disciplines (Resource Modelling and Estimation, Pit optimization and Technical Evaluation).

Reporting to the Head of Resource and Commodity Knowledge and working in an exciting and challenging environment within the Exploration Technical Knowledge team, you will:

• Draw on technical expertise globally, and allocating this expertise across broad and variable environments and jurisdictions primarily within the Exploration Technical Knowledge, RTX regional groups and the broader Rio Tinto Group; and
• Provide insightful evaluation of RTX projects and third-party opportunities by: developing business cases and alternative development pathways, rapidly assessing opportunities, providing input to due diligence aspects of transactions
• Provide technical data that supports a convincing case for the early stage investment decisions that need to be made on all of Rio Tinto’s future growth assets
• Assist with risk management by identifying and communicating impact of key technical risks requiring mitigation and/or management to ensure the successful progression from discovery through to resource development
• Ensure the minimum appropriate data is collected to support the advancement of the project and successful transfer to the product group
• Provide technical support that enables the regional teams to effectively manage relationships with junior exploration companies, joint venture partners

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Significant experience operating within technical resource evaluation disciplines (e.g. Resource Estimation, Resource Valuation, Engineering, Technical Due Diligence)
• Understanding of orebody knowledge, resource evaluation and operations and a track record of generating practical and innovative solutions to multi-faceted technical and/or operational problems.
• Broad experience covering
  • Planning processes, systems and tools across all time horizons.
  • Technical studies, concept to feasibility level.
  • Understanding of mine economics and evaluation techniques.
  • Good understanding of the mine value chain and interactions including trade off decisions and value creation
  • Promoting and driving the understanding of the interdependent relationships between geology, mining and processing in terms of overall process and financial efficiency
• Demonstrated ability to build constructive relationships and a capacity to influence staff at all levels, including senior group management
• Excellent communication, facilitation and negotiation skills including technical report writing and presentation.
• Track record of operational and management effectiveness, working successfully in various countries and with different cultures.

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 work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees
• Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions 
• Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs and pension plan 
• Wellbeing benefits 
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program 
• Employee Assistance Program 
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matter 
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

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

Rio Tinto's Exploration group seeks to create value for the business by discovering or acquiring new mineral resources. Organized into four regional teams (Americas, Australasia, Africa-Europe and Eurasia), the Exploration group provides both a global reach and a local presence across a range of commodities including bauxite, copper, iron ore, nickel and uranium.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA 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.

Applications close on Friday the 9th of February 2024 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)