# Senior Engineer, Geotechnical Engineering

Help safeguard Kennecott’s Tailings Storage Facilities and water infrastructure through high-impact geotechnical engineering, risk management, and dam safety work. Grow your technical influence by partnering with the Engineer of Record and multidisciplinary teams across design, construction, monitoring, operations, and closure planning. Be part of Kennecott’s Tailings & Water Services team in Salt Lake City, Utah 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 looking for a Senior Geotechnical Engineer to provide advanced geotechnical expertise supporting the safe, sustainable, and compliant management of Kennecott’s Tailings Storage Facilities (TSFs) and associated water management infrastructure. In this role, you’ll be a key technical resource within Tailings & Water Services, supporting long-term asset stewardship through sound geotechnical engineering, performance monitoring, continuous improvement, and proactive risk management. You’ll help ensure alignment with Rio Tinto standards, applicable regulatory requirements, the Glob

- **Id**: 3988610
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/rio-tinto-senior-engineer-geotechnical-engineering>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Salt Lake City, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T22:33:23Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T14:42:58Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8311
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- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Insurance coverage, Life insurance, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Civil & Structural Engineering, Mining, Iron Ore, Non-ferrous Metals

## Company

- **Id**: 183
- **Name**: Rio Tinto
- **Domain**: riotinto.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/rio-tinto>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 9
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 16
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T22:33:23Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 15 · green card filings: 2; Filings 12m: 15

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 16
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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