Joe Ricciardo was a prominent mining engineer prior to his retirement in April 2016. He led the founding of private company JR Engineering and as managing director, he successfully grew the company into a leading engineering services provider before its sale to a major ASX-listed mining services group in 2001. In 2006, Mr Ricciardo was instrumental in regrouping the former key executives from JR Engineering to establish GR Engineering. He was also a non-executive director of Mineral Resources and was on its board since its public listing in 2006.