Principal Advisor Sustainability -NutonTM * Become a part of the team pioneering Rio Tinto's latest heap leaching technology. * Grow your career and contribute to a technology venture committed to build a more sustainable future. * Experience why Utah is the best overall state to live and work as ranked by the U.S. News and World Report.(Utah Ranked #1 U.S. News and World Report) About the role Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs. NutonTMis a Rio Tinto venture with the purpose of commercializing our copper bio-heap leaching technologies, which enables us to leach copper sulfide ores and unlock vast copper resources that were previously uneconomic or technically challenging to process. One of the main differentiators of Nuton is our commitment to achieving leading environmental performance, including lower carbon emissions, lower water usage, a smaller land footprint, the ability to valorize materials otherwise considered waste, and the commitment to achieve positive social outcomes. Through deploying our technology, we have the potential to produce the lowest impact copper in the market and enable Positive Impacts in at least one of our five pillars: energy, water, materials, land and society. We are looking for a passionate and experiencedPrincipal Advisor Sustainabilityto join our Nuton team. In this role, you will play a crucial role in realizing Nuton's ambition to be a sustainability leader. You will identify, evaluate and recommend the most attractive opportunities to reduce Nuton's environmental footprint, and find efficiencies to minimize our impacts on our processing flowsheet and our partners' minesites. This position requires a solid background on material sciences or environmental engineering, with exceptional project management and communication skills. In this role, you'll report to theGrowth andSustainability VP, and your responsibilities will include: * Research and Development: Identify advanced materials and technologies to reduce the environmental footprint of Nuton's flowsheet. This includes studying the properties and behaviors of materials under various conditions and the suitability of novel technologies to identify opportunities to enhance Nuton's process. * Process Optimization: Analyze Nuton's flowsheet and optimize existing processes to reduce waste, energy consumption, water requirements and carbon emissions. Recommend process improvements to project teams and collaboratively work to implement improvements to enhance efficiency and sustainability. * Collaboration: Work closely with environmental scientists, engineers, and other stakeholders to integrate sustainable practices into Nuton's deployment at our partners' sites. Facilitate cross-functional collaboration with technology development and deployment teams to ensure that sustainability goals are met. * Environmental impact evaluation: Evaluate the environmental impact of materials and processes, propose improvements, and use sustainability metrics to measure and report on environmental performance of competing technical solutions. Conduct trade off studies on competing environmental solutions. * Technical Documentation:Prepare technical reports, presentations, and documentation to communicate findings and recommendations. Provide clear and concise information to support decision-making processes. * Technical Support:Provide technical support and guidance to project teams on sustainability issues. Offer expertise in materials science and applied technology to solve complex problems. What you'll bring * A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team. * Bachelor's or Master's degree in Materials Science, Engineering, Industrial Processing or a related field. A Ph.D. in a relevant discipline is desirable. Prior knowledge or experience in mining also useful. *... For full info follow application link.