Shift Maintenance Coordinator

• Join a global mining organization with an exceptional safety culture.
• Excellent opportunity for career development and technical growth
• Permanent Role based in Salt Lake City, Utah

About the Role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Shift Maintenance Coordinator – to coordinate maintenance execution activities, lead team for daily maintenance, PM’s, secondary maintenance and breakdown tasks for all production equipment at the Smelter. This coordinator position will be responsible for all shift maintenance execution activities in addition lead other special projects/activities and initiatives.

This role is a great opportunity to lead a maintenance team of craftsman and contractors in the safe execution of quality work ensuring that work management process is effectively followed. The core role responsibility is managing the safe execution of quality work, adhering work management practices, to coordinate plant wide maintenance activities in alignment with production targets. Reporting into the Manager Hot Metals your key accountabilities include:

• Provide safety leadership in the field for all off-shift maintenance activities
• Provide maintenance leadership to improve MTTR (mean time to repair) and improve production
• Improved work management health (CRI, compliance, backlog)
• Receive quality handover from prior shift maintenance teams (electrical and mechanical)
• Coach off shift supervisor to facilitate effective L1 shift start meetings
• Call Sr. Coordinators (Operations, Maintenance, Control Room) to understand and align on shift maintenance priorities
  • Is there safety critical issues that need maintenance attention
  • Are we on plan for production, or are their threats to achieving plan
• Facilitate daily maintenance prioritization meeting 06:30
• Communicate clear priorities to off shift maintenance teams
• Respond to priority maintenance calls and collaborate with operations to identify/troubleshoot problem
• Ensure maintainers have accurate work instructions (NOPs, PRTs etc.), parts are expedited as required, and correct tooling is available/utilized.
• Facilitate Off-shift turnover meeting at 14:30
• Complete and distribute quality shift notes to all AM superintendents, AM coordinators and Op’s Sr. Coordinators.
• Ensure priorities are clearly communicated to shift maintenance teams.
• Initiate escalation - Follow escalation matrix protocol, send situation reports as required per matrix.
• Incidents – Follow incident reporting/Investigation procedures for any AM related issues

What you will need for this role

To succeed in this role, you will have: 

• Candidates must demonstrate a safety conscious approach to work, a proven ability to operate independently and in small multi-discipline teams, and strong interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written; a participative management style in problem solving, project implementation, and continuous improvement, and strong analytical and computer skills are important.
• Must become proficient in SAP and CMMS.
• Understand and effectively communicate the importance of accurate and timely work completion.
• Have the energy, commitment, interpersonal and technical skills to optimize work-execution by proper utilization of resources in an environment of teamwork and cooperation.
• Incumbent must be able to work with and utilize support, particularly from the maintenance and operations team leaders in the context of maintenance performance improvement.

 It will also be beneficial if you have: 

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering or related field and minimum 5 years related experience or an MS degree
• 2 years related experience in lateral role or 10 years related experience in the Industry

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

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers for nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers – generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress. Borates are a key ingredient in fertilizers, glass manufacture, and household construction products. Lithium will help electrify the world.

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities, and our boron helps feed the world and explore the universe. Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

Rio Tinto Kennecott Copper

Our Kennecott mine is a world-class, fully integrated copper mining operation, including a concentrator, smelter and refinery, located just outside Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States. We produce copper, precious metals including gold and silver, molybdenum and sulfuric acid. Kennecott has been mining and processing minerals from the rich ore body of the Bingham Canyon Mine since 1903, and is one of the top producing mines in the world, comprising approximately 11 percent of U.S. annual copper production.

Every Voice Matters

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable being themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQ community, mature workers, people with disabilities, and people from different cultural backgrounds.

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

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