Electrical Contractor Coordinator

• Excellent opportunity to provide technical support for a large/complex operation
• Work in a diverse, collaborative, and rapidly changing environment
• Advance your career with Rio Tinto today! - Salt Lake City, UT

The Opportunity

We are looking for an Electrical Contractor Coordinator (Minerals) to support our mine, crushing & conveying, concentrator, and tailings areas with contractor management support. The role will work with our engineering groups, and electrical specialist technicians throughout the minerals end of our business. The successful candidate will be a part of the electrical systems asset management group of Rio Tinto Kennecott. This role will support the business by way of contractor coordination for breakdowns, engineering support, and small project management jobs.

This role is a great opportunity to join a truly global mining organization and be involved in the electrical support of mining operations. Reporting to the minerals Sr. Electrical Engineer, you will be:

• Providing support to electrical contractor onboarding with safety datasheets and commitments.
• Using MCI Track time allowance of contractors for time and material accountability
• Committing to electrical safety for site area and contractor accountability.
• Working all areas of minerals and departments to bring in contractors to assist the plants.
• Permit training and verification for safe work
• Safety interactions and work completion quality sign offs
• Putting in requisitions, purchase orders and completing invoicing
• Working with major electrical reps. - Siemens, Eaton, Flanders, Vertiv, Codale, Anixter, GE, etc.

What you will need for this role

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• Electrical install experience and eye for quality assurance
• Experience in mining, industrial, or large plant manufacturing
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience with computer system applications, including Word, Excel, MS Project
• Previous leadership experience around technical/engineering teams
• Personable and ability to communicate with different groups/leaders

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Experience with Electrical design, install, and engineering practices.
• Broad understanding of electrical NEC codes, industrial requirements
• Familiar to Rio Tinto contractor management protocol, and process
• Electrical licensing and install experience
• Skills knowledge of Avetta and MCI Track software
• Knowledge of RTKC standards, Critical Risk Management Process, TRACK tools.

What we offer

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

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• 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

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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