Geoscientific System

**Geoscientific Systems & Data Specialist**
- Excellent opportunity to professionally develop your technical expertise.
- Full-time employee based in Santiago, Chile.

**About the role**

**Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.**

We are looking for a **Geoscientific System & Data Specialist** to deliver and administer high quality geoscientific data repositories and information management systems to the regional exploration teams, supporting them in the mineral discovery process.

Working in a collaborative community you will:

- Support exploration projects to generate and manage high quality exploration data using the required workflows, databases, systems, integration, governance and services to maximise data quality and availability.
- Provide technical leadership and oversight of less experienced staff within the D&IM team, in support of the Regional Data and Information Manager.
- Ensure adherence to compliance and corporate governance in the use of geoscience technical systems and promote best practices in data and information management.
- Operationalize, support, administer and provide training for geoscientific technical systems and data.
- Provide hands on technical support curating data, migrating data or compiling data handovers.
- Support high quality field data capture and communications.
- Actively engage with project teams to ensure project data management requirements are defined, understood, followed and delivered.
- Work in a team environment implementing business improvements, successfully influence and manage change associated with implementing systems, information and/or data management solutions, services, practices or processes.
- Engage with the broader exploration and Rio Tinto teams to identify and pursue improvements in systems and data management practices, including optimizing or automating workflows, and standardising approaches.
- Collaborate with the wider Exploration Technical Knowledge group to ensure regional projects can benefit from current and future technical capabilities within the team.

**What you’ll bring**

To be successful in this role you will demonstrate the following:

- A commitment to the safety of yourself and your peers
- Relevant tertiary qualifications such as in geosciences, earth sciences and/or IS&T are desirable.
- Experience in an earth sciences, mineral exploration and/or relevant business with an understanding of the dynamics of the business as well as implications for providing systems and support to remote and virtual teams.
- Ability to travel periodically to remote field sites.
- Extensive experience in managing relational databases including Drilling and Surface Sampling systems. Ability to script in languages such as SQL, Python, R etc. Experience with acQuire or other drilling data management solutions would be highly regarded.
- Sound analytical skills to understand business requirements, identify as well as evaluate options and deliver systems, information and data solutions to address business needs.
- Proficiency and experience in GIS (Geographic Information System) and spatial data management systems.
- An understanding of cloud data platforms and data science concepts would be beneficial.

The proven ability to work both independently and collaboratively with a range of senior leaders, professional and technical staff to achieve customer focused outcomes through the sharing of expertise, skills and technical capability.

**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 situations and meet opportunities.

**Every Voice Matters**

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.