Predictive Maintenance (PdM) Specialist

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Exposure to a wide variety of equipment and technologies
• Work for a global company with broad opportunities - Salt Lake City

About the Role

We are looking for a Predictive Maintenance (PdM) Specialist to join the reliability team at Rio Tinto Kennecott. This role will use PdM technologies to identify equipment failures in their infancy thereby allowing maintenance to be performed on a scheduled basis. The PdM specialist is responsible and accountable for safely collecting, analyzing and reporting on the general health of critical assets.

At Rio Tinto we have operations across the globe including a range of open pit and underground mines that supply copper and diamonds. Our copper operations supply products in China, Japan and the US which plays an important role in almost every home, office and vehicle. We are also one of the world's leading diamond producers and the largest producer of natural coloured diamonds.

This role is a great opportunity to build your technical knowledge base and further your career as a reliability professional. Reporting to the Superintendent - Reliability, you will be:

• Performing inspections, data interpretation, and reporting for various PdM technologies
• Recommending repairs based on PdM data, evaluating the quality of the repairs, and providing feedback
• Creating maintenance notifications when a need for maintenance is identified
• Creating equipment health summary reports
• Participating in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations

About You

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• 5+ years of general maintenance experience and 2+ years of relevant PdM experience
• Formal certification or experience with some of the following PdM technologies: vibration, thermography, oil analysis, ultrasonics, weld inspection, and non-destructive testing
• Understanding of basic math and physics for quick comprehension of PdM techniques
• Basic computer skills such as email, data management, data input, data analysis and PdM software
• Basic Excel skills including basic formatting, formulas, charts/graphs and manipulation of data, Word and Power Point

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Training/experience in: Motor Current Evaluation, Root Cause Analysis, Failure Analysis & SAP
• Experience in a heavy industrial setting

What we offer

Here is just a glimpse of our industry leading rewards package:

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees
• Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions
• Access to top tier family-friendly health and medical programs
• Excellent retirement plan including 6% defined company contribution
• Generous 401k matching program
• A comprehensive leave policy that covers all moments that matter in life (vacation/annual, paid parental leave, short term sick leave, paid holidays)
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matter
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program

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 will be working

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 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.

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

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

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