Planning Engineer

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Your new company

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.

Your new role

A Senior Mine Infrastructure Planner at our Labrador City operations would be 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.

• 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 will need to succeed

• Registered or eligible for a Professional Engineering designation in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in the discipline of Mining Engineering
• 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 you will get in return

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