Planner/Scheduler

• Work for a company with a world-class reputation for safety and performance.
• Fostering a collaborative team environment built on strong work ethics.
• Excellent opportunity to expand your career and develop your technical expertise.

About the role

We are looking for a Maintenance Planner/Scheduler to be focused on increasing plant reliability and workforce productivity through quality work planning. This role is a great opportunity to join a successful, dynamic and experienced team. Reporting to the Planning Superintendent, you will be:

• Improving productivity of people, equipment and work quality by eliminating potential delays and obstacles to efficient work execution.
• Responsible for maintenance work by producing weekly maintenance plans which are practical with all of the resources identified with accurate estimates and all necessary materials.
• Ensuring safety needs are given a top priority in work planning.

• Providing KPI data showing maintenance performance to various departments.
• Recommending system and design changes to improve the processes.
• Leading follow-up meetings to capture learnings from the workforce to capture improvements in plant and procedures.

What you'll bring

• Minimum 5 years of industrial maintenance experience
• Previous maintenance planning and scheduling experience.
• SAP experience
• Previous project experience.

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to manage solid and dotted line accountabilities.
• Advanced computer skills including Microsoft Office software skills and database management.

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

Where you will be working

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.

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.

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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