Senior Optimisation

Senior Operations Research - Mathematical Optimisation and Simulation

• Join us to help solve the biggest challenges facing our integrated Iron Ore value chain and apply your creativity to our huge mine datasets
• Bring your skills in Operations Research, Mathematical Optimisation and Simulation to one of the most exciting transformation projects in supply chain management
• Diverse and challenging projects with our Digital Division in Rio Tinto Iron Ore
• Turning business use cases and requirements into technical solutions and enhance our business decision making
• Co-lead and support complex mathematical modelling systems to optimise business outcomes
• Permanent fulltime role based in Perth | 5 on : 2 off | Flexible working arrangements

Where we're all welcomeWe 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.The OpportunityWe have an opportunity for one Senior Optimisation to work with challenging and exciting mathematical optimisation and simulation problems and positively impact the business while engaging with a team of technology experts across data science, optimisation 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.You will be regularly challenged and given the support to drive your innovations!You will support the Advanced Analytics team in the Digital Division to design, lead 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 and design 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
• Design and build optimisation models to support business requirements, designing and configuring to support their operation across the supply chain
• Provide guidance on the design of new features involving to ensure the cross functional team is aligned on an efficient and unified design.
• Ensure best in class processes and techniques to develop, deploy and refine optimisation solutions to the business
• Ensure 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
• Influence and maintain our strong team culture, and implement new ways of working
• Lead a small team of Optimisation specialists, providing coaching and mentoring to graduates and early career professionals, and supporting our internship programs

What You'll bringIdeally, 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 and coding skills in Python or Typescript. Post graduate qualifications will be highly regarded.You should also have experience with some, or all, of the below:

• 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
• A desire to lead and develop technical teams and willingness to mentor to build capability within the team
• 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
• Proficiency in a mathematical software packages (ie. Gurobi, CPLEX, AIMMS, Pulp or Pyomo)
• Proficiency in Python preferred
• Software engineering experience desirable

. 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

Where you'll be workingThis role is based in Perth, Western Australia, out of our Operation Centre (Perth Airport) office, working Monday - Friday, with required time at our Central Park, Perth offices, and ad hoc travel to sites in the Pilbara. We support and encourage flexible working arrangements.About Rio TintoRio 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 opportunitiesApplications close on 27th April 2024 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)