Director - Asset Integrity

• Provide leadership and reliability excellence strategy for a world class Aluminum Smelter and Hydro Generating facility in Kitimat, BC
• Drive the vision, strategy, and delivery to increase Reliability Excellence across the assets
• Make a tangible impact, delivering real value to the business and team
• Work in a diverse and collaborative environment, in an exciting location North-western British Columbia

About the role

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

We are looking for a Director, Asset Integrity, to lead a team of engineers and maintenance leaders, who are accountable for all maintenance planning & execution by our tradespeople. The incumbent defines and implements short, medium, and long-term asset management strategies and processes across the entire facility. The role also has accountability to provide vison, strategy, and understanding, to implement best practices in automation, data analytics and business intelligence solutions.

This role is a great opportunity to build a legacy by creating an impactful long-term asset strategy, directly linked to process optimization. The exposure to our diverse range of assets is unparalleled - from robots to conveyor to automation. Beyond the operational excellence challenge, we are also deploying a fundamental cultural transformation with our employees. You will be a key part of improving our relationships, and ensuring a people-centered, and problem-solving, management philosophy is deployed with our employees.

Leading on the frontline is one of the most important jobs in our business and comes with a huge amount of responsibility. We need you to motivate, inspire and keep your people safe and well. With signature leadership training programmes, growing and developing is more than an opportunity - it is something we actively plan and make happen. Every day our leaders grow, while our rosters are designed to help you live the lifestyle that is right for you and your family.

Reporting to the General Manager and working a Monday to Friday schedule, you will be:

• Accountable for the safety standards and performance across your area - promoting the 'zero harm' safety culture
• Effectively leading your team, with an emphasis on providing clear objectives with a caring approach
• Driving cultural transformation, leading by example & developing the leaders who report to you
• Championing Asset Management principals aligned to the Rio Tinto framework
• Leading the Development, Implementation, Monitoring and Management of Reliability programs including, but not limited to, RCM, PM and PDM
• Applying business evaluation techniques in conjunction with risk assessment principals to optimize plant operation and service delivery
• Developing and implementing equipment & shutdown strategies to drive value & manage the safe and efficient delivery of capital spending programs (CAPEX / OPEX)
• Identifying threats and opportunities to business objectives through data, conversations and observations; and diagnosing root causes to determine the required intervention.
• Leading the automation team to understand and assess applicability for best practice automation, data analytics and business intelligence opportunities

What you'll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Degree qualification in engineering or robust, relevant technical / trade background and industry experience
• Experience in a managerial role with demonstrated results on asset management, reliability, and business objectives
• At least 10 years' experience working in aluminum smelting or similar industrial environment
• Mature and detailed understanding of Health & Safety leadership, culture, systems, and management
• Sound experience in 'Reliability Centered Maintenance' (RCM), Reliability Block Diagram (RBD), Preventative and Predictive Maintenance / analytics programs.
• Experience in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Failure Mode, Effect and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
• Effective communication skills including preparation of technical reports and presentations to senior management

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Lean/six sigma experience
• Automation, robotics, or data analytics

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