Optimisation Modelling Specialist

3 days ago


Perth, Western Australia Guma-Warnii Full time

Estimated Salary: AU$110,000 - AU$130,000 per annum


About the Role:



  • This is a challenging and exciting opportunity for a Specialist Operations Researcher to work with complex mathematical optimisation and simulation problems.

We are seeking an experienced Optimisation Modelling Specialist to join our team in Perth, Western Australia. As a key member of our Future Scheduling Platform workstream, you will design and continually improve products that solve business problems and provide insight to making improved decisions for our Iron Ore business.


Your Key Responsibilities Will Include:



  1. Supporting the Rio Tinto Iron Ore Digital Division to turn business use cases and requirements into technical solutions and enhance our client's business decision making.
  2. Co-developing and supporting complex mathematical modelling systems to optimise business outcomes.
  3. Utilising your hands-on capability and skills in linear, mixed integer modelling along with experience in heuristics and discrete event simulation to help Rio Tinto Iron Ore modernise its integrated operations function.
  4. Building optimisation models to support business requirements, designing and configuring to support their operation across the supply chain.
  5. Ensuring best-in-class processes and techniques to develop, deploy, and refine optimisation solutions to the business.

Your Ideal Profile:



  • A Master's qualification in Mathematics or a related field, combined with extensive experience in Optimisation and Simulation projects.
  • Strong knowledge and experience in Mathematical Operations Research.
  • Highly experienced with Agile methodologies and coding skills in Python.
  • Ideal Typescript experience but not essential.
  • Post-graduate qualifications will also be highly regarded.

What We Offer:



  • A competitive salary package including benefits such as flexible working arrangements, professional development opportunities, and a collaborative and supportive team culture.
  • The opportunity to work on challenging and exciting mathematical optimisation and simulation problems, positively impacting the business while engaging with a team of technology experts across data science and simulation domains.
  • A chance to make a difference in the successful delivery of this Iron Ore Project.


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