Rio Tinto Hiring for Shutdown & Long-term Maintenance Planner at Kitimat, BC Full Time

Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion

Challenging and creative role with opportunity to define, develop, and implement the latest technologies

Permanent role, based in Kitimat, BC

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We are looking for a Shutdown & Long-term Maintenance Planner to create and manage the site master schedule and provide planning and coordination support for all major outages across our modernized Aluminum Smelter and Power Operation in Kitimat, BC.

This is a great opportunity for a collaborative and strategic individual to grow their career in a unique operational and industrial environment.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

Reporting to the Planning Team Lead, and working a Monday to Friday schedule you will be:

Working safely in accordance with Rio Tinto safety standards and promoting our zero-harm culture

Improve productivity of people, equipment, and work quality by eliminating potential delays and obstacles to efficient work execution.

Develop maintenance long term strategy which is practical with the capacity and asset needs identified, with accurate estimates and all necessary information.

Ensure safety needs are given a top priority in work planning.

Provide KPI data showing maintenance performance to various departments.

Recommend system and design changes to improve the processes.

Lead follow-up meetings to capture learnings from the workforce to capture improvements in plant and procedures.

Apply Shutdown Management best practices.

Track long lead time parts orders

What you’ll bring

A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

Journeyperson Trade designation or Mechanical/Electrical Engineer degree or Technologist diploma (electrical preferred)

At least 5 years of Maintenance Planning experience in an industrial setting

Experience and proficiency using SAP CMMS system

Excellent communication skills (oral and written)

An understanding of Maintenance Work Management processes

At least a valid Class 7 Driver’s License

It will also be beneficial if you have:
Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma qualification

Microsoft Projects

What we offer

Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.

A work environment where safety is always the number one priority

Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions

A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program

Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical programs, pension and savings plans

Attractive share ownership plan

Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

Exclusive employee discounts

Domestic relocation assistance

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.

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.

Where you’ll be working

Rio Tinto’s BC Works is a part of the Atlantic Operations of the Aluminium product group and has been operating in British Columbia for over 65 years. With industry leading new technology and four generations of employee expertise, as well as our hydropower facility at Kemano and the Nechako Reservoir, the Kitimat smelter is one of the world’s most competitive aluminium smelters, producing aluminium with one of the lowest carbon footprints in the industry.

Rio Tinto is proud to operate in BC alongside our 1,000 employees, partners, community stakeholders and First Nations, and we look forward to the next 60 years.

To learn more about our Aluminium Operations, check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=25&v=CTp1jkRKeBI

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA2 community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be 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.

Applications close: August 28, 2022

(Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)