Process Control Engineer

Description

Job Summary: Responsible for planning and executing process control activities using industrial automation systems to ensure safe and efficient operational performance. Key Highlights: 1. Opportunity for professional and personal growth within a collaborative team. 2. Close leadership committed to your development. 3. Proactive, analytical, and autonomous work environment. **Process Control Engineer** An excellent opportunity to join a team that prioritizes safety, operational excellence, and inclusion. This role offers the chance to grow within a close-knit and collaborative leadership team committed to your professional and personal development. Based in Salar del Rincón, Salta, Argentina. **About the Role** As a Process Control Engineer, you will be responsible for planning and executing process control activities using industrial automation systems, contributing to safe, stable, and efficient operational performance. You will apply formal tools and methodologies to develop robust controls that ensure achievement of production, quality, and safety objectives. We value a proactive, analytical, and autonomous profile with the ability to manage multiple tasks while maintaining high standards of accuracy, results orientation, and flexibility in a dynamic environment. This position operates under a 7x7 roster schedule, based at Salar de Rincón, Salta. Reporting to our Technical Services & Laboratories Manager \& Capability Development Manager, you will join a diverse and collaborative team within Technical Services and will: * Ensure operational continuity of the plant control system, with focus on people, equipment, and product quality safety. * Maintain and supervise control and data historian systems, performing continuous checks of communications, processing capacity, and data storage. * Conduct failure and root cause analysis of equipment within your specialty and participate in incident investigations affecting safety or operational quality. * Propose and implement corrective actions and strategic improvements to prevent recurrence of incidents. * Design, maintain, and update documentation supporting area work standards. * Serve as technical reference during design, pre-commissioning, commissioning, and start-up phases of new installations or modifications. * Participate in preparation of technical specifications and inspection of service contracts related to process control. * Analyze, generate, and maintain area KPIs, contributing to implementation and maintenance of certification standards. **About You** * Commitment to your own safety and that of your team. * Degree in Electronic, Electrical Engineering, or related field. * Minimum 5 years’ experience in automation, instrumentation, and process control. * Solid knowledge of PLC, DCS, SCADA, HMI, and control system programming. * Experience with industrial communication networks and instrumentation. * Proficiency in configuration software for industrial equipment. * Intermediate English (mandatory) **What We Offer** Be recognized for your contribution, your way of thinking, and your effort—and go home knowing you’ve contributed to advancing the world. * A workplace where safety is always the top priority. * A competitive remuneration package with annual cash incentives for eligible employees. * Professional development and educational support to advance your aspirations. * Access to world-class health and wellbeing programs designed for families. * Wellbeing benefits. * Generous Rio Tinto employee share program. * Employee Assistance Program. * Ongoing personal and professional wellbeing support for you and your family. * Leave entitlements for all life stages (vacation, paid parental leave, medical leave). **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. **Where you will be working** Recognized as a pioneer and leader in the industrial minerals industry due to product quality, supply reliability and technical support; we are proud to make modern life work. Lithium is part of our portfolio of materials essential to a low\-carbon future and is a key element needed for low\-carbon technologies. The Battery Materials unit is comprised of the Borates operations in US, the Jadar Project in Serbia and the Rincon project in Argentina, leading in mining borates and lithium for a more sustainable future. The Rincon lithium project is a large undeveloped lithium brine project located in the heart of the lithium triangle in the Salta Province of Argentina, an emerging hub for greenfield projects. It is a long\-life, scalable resource with one of the lowest carbon footprints of lithium assets in the world. This acquisition is a significant further endorsement of our commitment to the battery materials sector and lithium's role in a low\-carbon future. **Respect and Inclusion** At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA2 community, mature workers, people with disabilities, and people from different cultural backgrounds. We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable being 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.