Rob Swiniarski

"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing." - Stephen Covey

Sandy, Utah, United States

About

Safety - Quality - Schedule - Budget - Listen, Collaborate and Solve

Experience

  • Office Director, Salt Lake City at BBA Consultants
    Jan 2024 - Oct 2024 · 10 mos

    Led the BBA Salt Lake City office to further develop existing local and regional relationships, and brought focus, expertise, rigor, innovation, and safety and quality consciousness to the mining, minerals, metals, and adjacent industries.

  • Principal Metallurgist - Program Manager - Director of Plant Engineering at AtkinsRéalis at AtkinsRéalis
    Jun 2023 - Jan 2024 · 8 mos

    Principal Metallurgist, Program Manager, and Director of Plant Engineering for the Minerals and Metals Group at AtkinsRéalis in the Wasatch Front, mountain states, and regional southwest and west.

  • Principal Metallurgist - Program Manager at SNC-Lavalin
    Oct 2020 - Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Principal Advisor - Process -- Process Development at Rio Tinto Kennecott Copper
    Jun 2018 - Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    Back to Specialty Metals! Worked with a brilliant team of technical, operational, project controls, and multi-divisional stakeholders to re-commission and restart an idle rare metals plant.

  • Principal Project Engineer – Study Manager, Capital Projects Group at Brunel Energy, on assignment to Rio Tinto Kennecott Copper
    Oct 2017 - Jun 2018 · 9 mos

    - Study Manager for two Conceptual Studies on optimization opportunities within the Copper Smelter - Graduated these to the point of Order-of-Magnitude Studies - Project Engineer for a broad-based omnibus Smelter-Refinery Conceptual Study