Senior Field Technician - Botswana

Rio Tinto is a global mining and metals group, dedicated to the smartest discovery, extraction and processing of the earth's natural resources.

Exploration and discovery have been the driving force behind our business for nearly 150 years. We are building a strong technical team in Botswana to undertake the safe prospecting and evaluation of the technical and economic viability of a potential iron ore development.

We have an exciting opportunity to join this dynamic and highly successful exploration team as a Senior Field Technician based in Botswana.

In this role, you will coordinate and deliver field support activities in order to enable the field component of the exploration programmes. You will work without direct supervision and play a coordinating role within the team and you will be required from time to time to coordinate the work of contractors and to train/coach and guide less experienced team members.

The successful candidate will be a good generalist, be multi-skilled across a range of tasks/activities (e.g. camp mobilization, maintenance, environmental processes, safety); or a good specialist such as in field responsibilities, with mechanical skills with a good understanding of project objectives and characteristics (i.e. location, conditions, drilling, seismic).

To be considered for this position you must demonstrate a strong commitment to workplace safety have the following skills and attributes:

· You must be literate and numerate with basic computer literacy

· At least 3 years related experience (exploration/field/remote/mechanical)

· Team effectiveness, capable of working closely and effectively with a variety of people.

· Be able to deal with change, uncertainty, variety of tasks, isolation, adaptable

· Show a keenness for fieldwork

· Be appropriately assertive and not afraid to push ideas

· Show an intuitive sense for operational effectiveness

· See operational linkages and opportunities that others do not

· Identify ways of working in a cost effective manner

The following training and certificates are essential:

· 4WD, Remote first aid, Manual handling, Truck license, Forklift, Crane/dogging, GPS

If you have the experience and passion to help us move forward together we want to hear from you.

Senior Field Technician - Botswana