Specialist Network

Specialist – Network

• Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities.
• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion – Boron, California
• For California based roles the expected annual salary is $102,960 – $141,570

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Specialist – Network to provide support our Boron and Wilmington site infrastructure services /networks and communication to ensure minimal disruption to operational services. This includes trouble shooting and putting into place effective monitoring, eliminating single points of failure, and providing improvement initiatives.

This is a great opportunity to grow your digital and technical career with a global mining company where possibilities are endless.

Data is one of our most important assets. From mine to market, behind each of our operations and projects are technological innovations and data science that are driving new industry standards in mining and metals.
With a clear focus on values, performance and strong leadership, you get to grow with an organisation that values your work and rewards you accordingly.

Reporting to the Information Systems & Technology Production Site Support Superintendent within a challenging and exciting environment, you will be:

• Support the Boron mine, Wilmington and Owens Lake Port Network and Communication environments:
• Review tickets for trend analysis and improvements
• Trouble shoot problems and provide solutions
• Design new solutions and seek approval from Cyber and Architecture 
• Validate the CI’s in RTTMS to ensure they reflect a true and up to date representation 
• Perform Quality checks on operational/Project changes to ensure standards are adhered to
• Put in place proactive monitoring across critical services
• Manage and control critical spares
• Ensure good housekeeping standards across network cabinets/cabling/labelling
• Own the Communication Towers/Rooms ensuring equipment and services are within standards and coordinate any vendor maintenance
• Identify risks and propose mitigations 
• Provide input into the Roadmaps and capex plans
• Meet regularly with key stakeholders on Life of Mine plan to proactively cater for comms changes 
• Coordinate changes that require Mine services, Electrical or Engineering activities
• Input into the DR plan ensuring service recovery has been correctly identified and tested
• Provide root cause analysis for critical incidents and operations comms outages
• Participate in outage issue resolution
• Always promote and work within a safe environment, adhering to the site specific HSE processes and procedures
• Manage the site specific HSE requirements when physical work is carried out during operational support ensuring responsible teams adhere to all HSE procedures and processes (CRM/JHA/Take 5’s/Pre-Shift meetings, Lean Meetings, Operational meetings)

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Good negotiation and influencing skills, and confidence to operate at all levels of the business.
• Ability to operate across culture and extract value from virtual teams dispersed globally.
• Customer focus and strong understanding of business context
• Degree qualified or higher in IT, (Cisco ICND, MCSE, CompTIA Network Certification) or related business degree
• Wide breadth of business understanding, and knowledge of Infrastructure fit for purpose
• Good experienced/knowledge across the Infrastructure domains
• Must have skills, awareness and knowledge of the impacts of business decisions and changes.

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 favourable 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

Rio Tinto Borates is a global leader in industrial mineral supply and science. We supply approximately 25% of the world’s demand for refined borates, minerals essential to life and modern living. We seek to create mutual value by working closely with our investment partners and host communities. Our 20 Mule Team Borax brand pays tribute to our first borates mining operation in Death Valley in 1872.

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 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.