Engineering Manager - Bauxite and Alumina

Rio Tinto is a leading international mining group headquartered in the UK, combining Rio Tinto plc, a London listed company, and Rio Tinto Limited, which is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. Rio Tinto's business is finding, mining, and processing mineral resources. Major products are aluminium, copper, diamonds, energy (coal and uranium), gold, industrial minerals (borax, titanium dioxide, salt, talc) and iron ore. Activities span the world but are strongly represented in Australia and North America with significant businesses in South America, Asia, Europe and southern Africa.

Primary Metal is a business unit of Rio Tinto Alcan, representing 19,400 employees across 21 countries and regions including 65 production facilities. With a capacity of 4.55 million tons per year, Primary Metal is the largest primary aluminum producer and a supplier of choice to the aluminium industry. This unit is recognized for its leadership position with AP smelting technology package and engineering solutions.

The Major Projects pipeline is approximately a 10B$ worldwide in potential aluminium smelters and Alumina refineries which is a part of the Major Projects, Support organization (MPS) and Business Development of Growth (BD&G) unit. The Major Projects Support (MPS) division has the accountability to provide support and manpower to all Major Projects (>100M$) from the inception of an opportunity in the concept phase to the completion of construction and handover to operations. The accountability of the MPS division is to provide strategic direction and support all major projects, in particular along the following disciplines: Engineering, Procurement, Controls, HR, HSE, Commissioning and Start-up. Each of the support disciplines is lead by a Director whose objective it is to provide strategic support to the major project in that particular discipline.

The main function of MPS Engineering is to:
•Provide Engineering & Technical structure, support and strategy to all RTA Major Projects at all stages of project development.
•Develop, maintain and implement RT/RTA project methodology, project procedures, engineering standards and other project requirements in addition to ensuring compliance by all Rio Tinto Alcan Major Projects (>100M$).
•Implement the quality systems strategy and ensure the project program is incorporated by all Major RTA Projects.
•Provide information management strategy and lead implementation of practices to all Major projects.
•Provide business development early phase (Concept & OoM) project engineering & scoping support, set the strategy for the development of projects and coordinate completion of study reports in support of the study director.
•Resource management and allocation for major projects and studies and provide functional supervision to all major project "Area Management" and "Engineering" resources including competency development in key project areas.
•Provide central support, set development strategy, assistance & coordination (when required) for appropriation of project funding for major projects.

The Engineering Manager - Bauxite and Alumina reports directly to the Director Engineering - Major Projects Support. The primary purpose of this role is to provide direction and support to project study teams and act as a conduit between the project study team and the greater MPS organization for all B&A projects. The incumbent will be accountable to provide business development in the early phase (Concept & OoM) project engineering & scoping support for all B&A projects in development within BD&G. To set the strategy for the development of B&A projects and coordinate completion of study & study reports in support of the study director and to provide support and leadership of studies in the Concept and Order and Magnitude phase to the Business Development departments. The position is located in Montreal.

Accountabilities:
- Lead B&A studies from the Engineering and asset delivery aspect in early phases of development.

- Ensure study team receivea all required engineering support (estimating, operational advice, scheduling, logistics etc).

- Ensure that the study teams are progressing and developing their studies in line with RTA requirements.

- Provide training to Study Teams and Project Team on specific RT/RTA processes as required.

- Ensure the RTA project methodology (including documentation) is developed and aligned with Rio Tinto project development guidance notes and assisting project teams in understanding the Capital Appropriation Process (CAP).


Requirements:
-Engineering degree or equivalent.

-5 to 10 years experience in an aluminum refinery.

-Experience in leading various projects.

-Proven track record in HSE.

-The manager must have a high level of understanding of the RT project development methodology.

-The manager requires a sound understanding of Rio Tinto's business evaluation principles and how projects are generated and progressed.

-Knowledge of mining processes is essential to assist the study teams with the development of projects and to understand the business cases.

-Spoken Knowledge of Portuguese and/or Spanish languages.

-Sound understanding of Bauxite and Alumina Operations.

-Strong Communication and interpersonal skills.

-Knowledge of project management systems for Major Projects.

-Results oriented.


Job Projects
Primary LocationCAN-QC-Montréal
Schedule Full-time
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