Land Advisor

Rio Tinto; Superior (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Health benefits

Excellent retirement plan with company

Rio Tinto employee share program

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Rio Tinto is seeking a Land Advisor to oversee land tenure, payments, and regulatory compliance near Superior, Arizona. The role links exploration, permitting, and external stakeholders to secure land positions essential for project success.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience with federal, state, and private land frameworks, and can manage complex land portfolios while supporting exploration and development. Flexibility for field work is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Geology, GIS, Land Management, Natural Resources, Environmental Studies, Business or related discipline.
• Experience maintaining a land tenure database and processing lease and claim payments.
• Trained in GIS or land surveying and comfortable outdoors in rural environments.
• Minimum 2 years in mineral tenure, land administration, or related fields.
• Knowledge of federal, state, and private land ownership frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Maintain Resolution Copper’s land tenure management system.
• File and manage applications for leases and land use permits.
• Prepare annual notice of intent to hold for mining claims and related tasks.
• Inspect grazing, mineral exploration, or water-related improvements in remote settings.
• Perform field investigations over rough terrain with heavy pack.
• Assist or lead plans of operation for approvals for mineral or geotechnical exploration.

Skills

GIS proficiency

Land tenure management

Field data collection

Stakeholder collaboration

Regulatory compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Geology / GIS / Land Management

Tools

ArcGIS

Land tenure database software

Job description

• Join a leader in mining & metals offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities.
• Competitive salary and benefits, with relocation assistance available for eligible candidates
• Work across a diverse land and permitting framework at a proposed underground copper mine located near Superior, Arizona.

• Join a leader in mining & metals offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities.
• Competitive salary and benefits, with relocation assistance available for eligible candidates
• Work across a diverse land and permitting framework at a proposed underground copper mine located near Superior, Arizona.

We’re Finding Better Ways to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future. Our values of care, courage and curiosity guide how we work and how we treat each other

About The Role

We are looking for a Land Advisor to serve as the primary point of accountability for payments, and acquisition of mineral tenure, conducting land status evaluations, making maps in ArcGIS of tenure and assets, ensuring regulatory compliance, and maintaining land, water, and mineral rights records.

This role serves as a critical link between exploration, permitting, infrastructure development, commercial, and external stakeholders to secure and maintain the land positions necessary for project success. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in federal, state, and private land frameworks and has a proven ability to manage complex land portfolios while supporting exploration and development objectives.

Role Responsibilities

• Maintain Resolution Copper’s land tenure management system.
• File and manage applications for leases and land use permits.
• Prepare an annual notice of intent to hold for mining claims, amend, locate, and relinquish claims as necessary to progress the project.
• Inspect grazing, mineral exploration, or water-related improvements in remote settings.
• Perform perioding field investigations involving several mile walks over rough terrain with a pack up to 50 lb.
• File and manage permit applications for exploration and water well drilling.
• Assist or lead the writing of plans of operation submitted to federal and state agencies for purposes of requesting approvals for mineral or geotechnical exploration.
• Make maps portraying the relationship between rights, infrastructure, and environment.
• Support the acquisition, protection, or use of all rights including state and public domain mineral rights, private land, railroad rights of way, state and federal grazing leases and permits, federal and state utility rights of way, special land use authorizations, authorizations under the General Mining Law, and water rights.

About You

We’re looking for someone whose experience aligns with the key requirements below. You do not need to meet every helpful-for-success item to apply.

Required For Success

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
• Bachelor's degree in Geology, GIS, Land Management, Natural Resources, Environmental Studies, Business, or a related discipline.
• Experienced in maintaining a land tenure database, and actioning lease payments and claim payments.
• Comfortable with operating outdoors in rural environments including exposure to extremes in temperature and a wide variety of hazards. to collect data or oversee safe execution of contractor partners.
• Trained in GIS or land surveying.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in mineral tenure, land administration, mineral rights management, exploration support, or related fields.
• Demonstrated knowledge of federal, state, and private land ownership frameworks.
• Experience conducting land status research, title review, and due diligence investigations.
• Strong understanding of mining claims, leases, agreements, and regulatory compliance requirements.

Preferred

• 5 or more years of experience in mineral exploration, mining, or natural resource development.
• Understanding of groundwater and surface water rights.
• Experience with complex tenure packages involving fee land, leases, claims, right of way corridors, railroads, easements, and grazing.
• Experience supporting land transactions.
• Familiarity with public land agencies and regulatory authorities.
• Skilled in collaborating with multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Experienced with NEPA

What We Offer

We are committed to providing our employees with a generous benefits package. Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking, your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress, we provide

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• Advantageous salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees
• Access to top-tier family-friendly health programs including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life insurance coverage, and various voluntary benefits.
• Excellent retirement plan including up to 6% defined company contribution; Generous 401k matching program
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program, which allows you to purchase Rio Tinto Company shares.
• Comprehensive leave policies which cover all moments that matter in life PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave.
• A favorable child-caregiver leave program (Up to 100% salary top-up)
• Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing
• Ongoing Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family; to help in addressing educational opportunities, addiction treatment, depression, stress, domestic issues, financial management, and legal concerns.
• Our team and industry experts are here to support and work with you to explore your learning potential and career goals

Where you will be working

You will be joining Resolution Copper at a pivotal moment in the project’s history. With the Resolution Copper Land Exchange now complete, the project is advancing its next phase of technical work, community engagement, and state permitting activities.

Resolution Copper has the potential to supply nearly 25% of total U.S. copper demand and generate several thousand direct and indirect jobs in the Pioneer Mining District of Arizona, delivering an economic value of several billion dollars over the life of the mine. The project will rely on block caving, a proven underground mining method that uses gravity to extract ore from a deposit located more than 2,000 meters below the surface. This technique is the most viable way to safely and efficiently recover the resource.

As development continues, Resolution Copper will expand its underground operations, conduct extensive drilling and orebody characterization, and maintain both the permitting process and ongoing public engagement with Native American tribes, local communities, and stakeholders.

The Resolution Copper project is vital to securing America’s energy future, infrastructure needs, and national defense by providing a domestic supply of copper and other critical minerals. Once operational, it has the potential to become one of the largest copper mines in the United States, contribute approximately $1 billion annually to Arizona’s economy, and create thousands of local jobs in a region with more than a century‑long mining heritage.

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.

Respect and Inclusion

Rio Tinto is committed to equal employment opportunity. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel safe, respected and valued. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome but are essential to our success. We treat all our people fairly and with dignity.

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