• Job Description

  Req#: RITM10585384

  Specialist Optimisation – Perth
  

  • Bring your skills in Operations Research and apply them to one of the most exciting transformation projects in supply chain management
  • Diverse and challenging projects with our Knowledge, Innovation and Technology (KIT) division
  • Turning business use cases and requirements into technical solutions
  • Utilise your Operations Research experience to enhance our business decision making
  • Co-Develop and support complex modelling systems to optimise business outcome

  Where we’re all welcome

  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.

  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 acknowledge that all people are different and believe that our differences are our strength. The diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together.

  About the Role
  

  We have an opportunity for one Specialist Operations Research to work with challenging and exciting optimisation problems and positively impact the business while engaging with a team of technology experts across data science and simulation domains.
  

  This role will involve gaining substantial experience working with our data, scheduling, and planning systems to develop state-of-the-art optimisation outcomes to support business decision making. KIT is courageous in the pursuit of innovation, curious in the development of emerging technologies and caring of our people and relationships.
  
  You’ll be part of a supportive team, supported by your Leader to grow and achieve your own personal goals as well as the goals of the team. You’ll work on Monday to Friday Perth based roster with flexible working arrangements which will give you more time to spend on the things that are important to you and the people in your life.

  Reporting to the Senior Optimisation Specialist, you will support the KIT Advanced Analytics team to design and continually improve products that solve business problems and provide insight to making improved decisions for our Iron Ore business. You will utilise your hands-on capability and skills in linear, mixed integer modelling along with experience in heuristics and discrete event simulation to:

  • Help Rio Tinto Iron Ore modernise its integrated operations function by applying specialised operations research and optimisation approaches as a core member of the Future Scheduling Platform workstream
  • Build optimisation models to support business requirements, designing and configuring to support their operation across the supply chain
  • Ensure best in class processes and techniques to develop, deploy and refine optimisation solutions to the business
  • Ensuring models are sustainable and extensible and design can evolve with the business over time
  • Provide training and knowledge transfer to support the deployment and continuity of the optimisation products developed and ensure they are solving business problems
  • Foster an innovative and “disruptive” technology culture to identify and drive value-creating opportunities
  • Influence the technical evolution of data services and data platforms to support the strategic operations optimisation aspirations of the group
  • Mentor and guide early career professionals to build their knowledge and capability in Operations Research

  About You

  • Ideally, you will have a master qualification in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field, combined with extensive experience in Optimisation and Simulation projects, preferably using agile methodologies.
  • The ability to develop a deep understanding of the business process that underpins good optimisation outcomes
  • Demonstrated drive to work with and understand customers and end user problems
  • A passion for coaching and an improvement mindset to support the introduction of new ways of working
  • Demonstrated team player mindset, with a strong work ethic and ownership of work towards the successful completion of project work and towards a collaborative and supportive team culture
  • Experience managing and influencing stakeholders within cross functional teams
  • Knowledge in change control using Git and release pipeline experience using Azure DevOps
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to diagnose and logically resolve technical problems
  • Agile delivery and project management experience will be highly desirable
  • Proficiency in a mathematical software packages (ie. Gurobi, CPLEX, AIMMS, Pulp or Pyomo)
  • Proficiency in Python preferred
  • Software engineering experience desirable

  If you are excited about the role and think you have what it takes but your experience doesn't align 100% we still want to hear from you.

  We are committed to promoting diversity within Rio Tinto and as a special measure to we strongly encourage women to apply.

  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 permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
  • Full relocation provided to Western Australia from elsewhere in Australia
  • A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive bonus
  • Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
  • Attractive share ownership plan
  • Company provided insurance cover
  • 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 parental, sick leave, cultural leave)
  • To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them
  • Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more, read more about the huge range of benefits here: https://bit.ly/43AQLue

  Who we are

  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

  Based in our Central Park Perth CBD office.

  In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own an integrated portfolio of iron ore assets: a world-class, integrated network of 16 mines, four independent port terminals, a 1,700 kilometre rail network and related infrastructure – all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand.

  We are one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of iron ore.

  Applications close on 22nd of September 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

• About the company

  Rio Tinto Group is an Anglo-Australian multinational and the world's second largest metals and mining corporation, behind BHP, producing iron ore, copper, diamonds, gold and uranium.

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