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Get Access To All Jobs- Join a leader in mining & metals offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities.
- Competitive salary and benefits.
- Work in an underground project located near Superior, Arizona.
We’re Finding Better Ways™ to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future. Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Senior Integrated Planner & Scheduler to support the safe, efficient, and disciplined delivery of underground mining activities. This critical role is responsible for developing, integrating, and maintaining short-, medium-, and long-term underground mine plans and schedules, ensuring alignment across operations, technical services, projects, and contractors.
Reporting to the Sr. Manager Underground Development, you will play a key role in driving schedule integrity, performance visibility, and integrated decision-making across the underground mine.
Role Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain integrated underground mine schedules (weekly, 21-day, monthly, and rolling forecasts)
- Integrate development, production, infrastructure, and project schedules into a single aligned plan
- Coordinate closely with Operations & Maintenance, Technical Services, Engineering, Projects, and Contractors
- Facilitate planning and scheduling meetings (weekly and monthly schedule reviews)
- Track progress against plan, identify schedule risks, and recommend mitigation actions
- Conduct scenario analysis and schedule optimization to support operational and project decisions
- Ensure schedule changes are managed through formal change and governance processes
- Produce clear planning and performance reports, dashboards, and schedule narratives
- Maintain schedule quality, logic, and data accuracy in line with planning standards
- Support budget, cost, and resource alignment with integrated schedules
- Mentor and provide guidance to planners and schedulers within the team
About you
- Tertiary qualification in Mining Engineering, Engineering, Project Controls, or a related discipline
- Valid driver’s license
- Relevant planning, scheduling, or project controls certifications are desirable
- Extensive on-site underground experience preferred
- Proven experience in underground mine planning and scheduling, ideally in large-scale or complex operations
- Strong experience developing integrated schedules across multiple workstreams
- Advanced skills in scheduling and planning tools such as Primavera P6, MS Project, Deswik, or similar
- Solid understanding of underground mining methods, development sequencing, and constraints
- Experience working with contractors and multidisciplinary teams
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Ability to translate complex schedules into clear insights for operational leaders
- High attention to detail with a strong focus on safety and risk management
What we offer
We are committed to providing our employees with a generous benefits package. Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking, your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress, we provide:
- A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
- Advantageous salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees
- Access to top-tier family-friendly health programs including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life insurance coverage, and various voluntary benefits
- Excellent retirement plan including up to 6% defined company contribution; Generous 401k matching program
- Generous Rio Tinto employee share program, which allows you to purchase Rio Tinto Company shares
- Comprehensive leave policies which cover all moments that matter in life: PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave
- A favorable child-caregiver leave program (Up to 100% salary top-up)
- Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing
- Ongoing Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family; to help in addressing educational opportunities, addiction treatment, depression, stress, domestic issues, financial management, and legal concerns
- Our team and industry experts are here to support and work with you to explore your learning potential and career goals
Where you will be working
You will be joining Resolution Copper at a pivotal moment in the project’s history. With the Resolution Copper Land Exchange now complete, the project is advancing its next phase of technical work, community engagement, and state permitting activities.
Resolution Copper has the potential to supply nearly 25% of total U.S. copper demand and generate several thousand direct and indirect jobs in the Pioneer Mining District of Arizona, delivering an economic value of several billion dollars over the life of the mine. The project will rely on block caving, a proven underground mining method that uses gravity to extract ore from a deposit located more than 2,000 meters below the surface. This technique is the most viable way to safely and efficiently recover the resource.
As development continues, Resolution Copper will expand its underground operations, conduct extensive drilling and orebody characterization, and maintain both the permitting process and ongoing public engagement with Native American tribes, local communities, and stakeholders.
The Resolution Copper project is vital to securing America’s energy future, infrastructure needs, and national defense by providing a domestic supply of copper and other critical minerals. Once operational, it has the potential to become one of the largest copper mines in the United States, contribute approximately $1 billion annually to Arizona’s economy, and create thousands of local jobs in a region with more than a century-long mining heritage.
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.
Respect and Inclusion
Rio Tinto is committed to equal employment opportunity. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel safe, respected and valued. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome but are essential to our success. We treat all our people fairly and with dignity.
Rio Tinto participates in E-Verify to confirm work authorization. Please visit http://www.ucis.gov/ for more information.
- Join a leader in mining & metals offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities.
- Competitive salary and benefits.
- Work in an underground project located near Superior, Arizona.
We’re Finding Better Ways™ to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future. Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Senior Integrated Planner & Scheduler to support the safe, efficient, and disciplined delivery of underground mining activities. This critical role is responsible for developing, integrating, and maintaining short-, medium-, and long-term underground mine plans and schedules, ensuring alignment across operations, technical services, projects, and contractors.
Reporting to the Sr. Manager Underground Development, you will play a key role in driving schedule integrity, performance visibility, and integrated decision-making across the underground mine.
Role Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain integrated underground mine schedules (weekly, 21-day, monthly, and rolling forecasts)
- Integrate development, production, infrastructure, and project schedules into a single aligned plan
- Coordinate closely with Operations & Maintenance, Technical Services, Engineering, Projects, and Contractors
- Facilitate planning and scheduling meetings (weekly and monthly schedule reviews)
- Track progress against plan, identify schedule risks, and recommend mitigation actions
- Conduct scenario analysis and schedule optimization to support operational and project decisions
- Ensure schedule changes are managed through formal change and governance processes
- Produce clear planning and performance reports, dashboards, and schedule narratives
- Maintain schedule quality, logic, and data accuracy in line with planning standards
- Support budget, cost, and resource alignment with integrated schedules
- Mentor and provide guidance to planners and schedulers within the team
About you
- Tertiary qualification in Mining Engineering, Engineering, Project Controls, or a related discipline
- Valid driver’s license
- Relevant planning, scheduling, or project controls certifications are desirable
- Extensive on-site underground experience preferred
- Proven experience in underground mine planning and scheduling, ideally in large-scale or complex operations
- Strong experience developing integrated schedules across multiple workstreams
- Advanced skills in scheduling and planning tools such as Primavera P6, MS Project, Deswik, or similar
- Solid understanding of underground mining methods, development sequencing, and constraints
- Experience working with contractors and multidisciplinary teams
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Ability to translate complex schedules into clear insights for operational leaders
- High attention to detail with a strong focus on safety and risk management
What we offer
We are committed to providing our employees with a generous benefits package. Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking, your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress, we provide:
- A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
- Advantageous salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees
- Access to top-tier family-friendly health programs including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life insurance coverage, and various voluntary benefits
- Excellent retirement plan including up to 6% defined company contribution; Generous 401k matching program
- Generous Rio Tinto employee share program, which allows you to purchase Rio Tinto Company shares
- Comprehensive leave policies which cover all moments that matter in life: PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave
- A favorable child-caregiver leave program (Up to 100% salary top-up)
- Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing
- Ongoing Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family; to help in addressing educational opportunities, addiction treatment, depression, stress, domestic issues, financial management, and legal concerns
- Our team and industry experts are here to support and work with you to explore your learning potential and career goals
Where you will be working
You will be joining Resolution Copper at a pivotal moment in the project’s history. With the Resolution Copper Land Exchange now complete, the project is advancing its next phase of technical work, community engagement, and state permitting activities.
Resolution Copper has the potential to supply nearly 25% of total U.S. copper demand and generate several thousand direct and indirect jobs in the Pioneer Mining District of Arizona, delivering an economic value of several billion dollars over the life of the mine. The project will rely on block caving, a proven underground mining method that uses gravity to extract ore from a deposit located more than 2,000 meters below the surface. This technique is the most viable way to safely and efficiently recover the resource.
As development continues, Resolution Copper will expand its underground operations, conduct extensive drilling and orebody characterization, and maintain both the permitting process and ongoing public engagement with Native American tribes, local communities, and stakeholders.
The Resolution Copper project is vital to securing America’s energy future, infrastructure needs, and national defense by providing a domestic supply of copper and other critical minerals. Once operational, it has the potential to become one of the largest copper mines in the United States, contribute approximately $1 billion annually to Arizona’s economy, and create thousands of local jobs in a region with more than a century-long mining heritage.
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.
Respect and Inclusion
Rio Tinto is committed to equal employment opportunity. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel safe, respected and valued. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome but are essential to our success. We treat all our people fairly and with dignity.
Rio Tinto participates in E-Verify to confirm work authorization. Please visit http://www.ucis.gov/ for more information.
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Verify your degree aligns with scheduling
Scheduler roles qualify under H-1B1 visa as specialty occupations when tied to a relevant degree in industrial engineering, operations management, or project management. A general business degree may draw scrutiny if the job description doesn't emphasize technical coordination.
Pull prevailing wage data before negotiating
Your employer files a Labor Condition Application certifying your salary meets DOL wage levels. Run your target role and metro area through the OFLC Wage Search before accepting an offer so you know the floor your employer must meet.
Target industries with active LCA filing history
Construction general contractors, hospital systems, and logistics firms file LCAs for Scheduler roles regularly. Search Migrate Mate's H-1B1 Chile job board to see which employers have active sponsorship history for this occupation before you apply.
Request the DS-160 and LCA timeline upfront
Unlike H-1B visa, your H-1B1 Chile application goes directly to the consulate once your employer certifies the LCA with DOL. Ask your hiring contact before an offer is signed whether their HR team has filed an LCA before, since first-time filers sometimes underestimate DOL processing time.
Prepare a specialty occupation letter with project examples
Consular officers assess whether your Scheduler role genuinely requires a bachelor's degree. Bring a detailed employer support letter citing specific scheduling software, critical-path methodology, or cross-functional coordination duties that distinguish the role from a general administrative position.
Confirm the employer knows the 1,400-visa annual cap
Many U.S. employers have never sponsored an H-1B1 Chile visa and assume the H-1B lottery applies. Clarify that the H-1B1 Chile annual cap of 1,400 visas is rarely reached and that no USCIS petition or lottery is involved, which often removes the employer's main objection.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Scheduler role qualify as a specialty occupation under H-1B1 Chile?
Yes, if the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a directly related field such as industrial engineering, construction management, or operations management. Roles emphasizing project controls, critical-path scheduling, or Primavera and MS Project expertise are more straightforward to qualify than general coordination roles where the degree requirement is vague or optional in the job posting.
How does H-1B1 Chile differ from H-1B for Scheduler jobs?
H-1B requires an employer to file a USCIS petition and enter a lottery, which means a Scheduler role may not get approved for two years or more. H-1B1 Chile bypasses both: your employer certifies a Labor Condition Application with DOL, and you apply directly at the Chilean consulate. The annual cap of 1,400 visas has historically gone unfilled, so there's no selection risk.
How do I find U.S. employers actively sponsoring H-1B1 Chile visas for Schedulers?
Migrate Mate filters job listings by H-1B1 Chile sponsorship history, so you can identify employers who have filed Labor Condition Applications for Scheduler or project controls roles without cold-applying to companies unfamiliar with the visa. Construction firms, hospital systems, and large infrastructure contractors are the most active filers for this occupation.
What documents does my employer need to prepare for my H-1B1 Chile application?
Your employer must file and receive a certified Labor Condition Application from DOL before your consulate appointment. They should also prepare a job offer letter detailing your title, duties, salary, and start date, along with a specialty occupation support letter explaining why the role requires a relevant bachelor's degree. You'll need a certified copy of the LCA to present at the interview.
Can I change Scheduler jobs after arriving in the U.S. on H-1B1 Chile?
Yes, but each new employer must file a fresh Labor Condition Application with DOL and issue a new job offer before you can work for them. Unlike H-1B portability rules, H-1B1 Chile doesn't allow you to start with a new employer while a transfer petition is pending. Plan the timing with your new employer so the LCA is certified before your last day with the prior company.
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