Master Data Specialist

• 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 full-time 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 Master Data Specialist to lead and champion best practice application of the Rio Tinto Asset Management and Rio Tinto Business Solution standards and systems at the 'BC Works' Aluminum Smelter & Power Operation in Kitimat, BC. You will have the opportunity to contribute at the Business Unit and Corporate level to standardize management practices across the value stream.

This is a great opportunity for a collaborative and strategic individual to grow their delivering capability, maximize the sustainable business value and manage the opportunities and risks related to the physical assets from raw materials to finished product.

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 Asset Management Manager, 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
• Manage the asset register by developing standardized structure of technical objectives
• The Asset Management liaison for Process Safety Critical requirements ensuring Asset Management practices support Process Safety Management control requirement (Asset Management specific)
• Responsible for audits of maintenance and asset management work practices, performing assessments of work practices through peer review/peer assist
• Implement improvement actions in the department via team coaching and/or process implementation
• Represent site needs with the greater Rio Tinto Asset Management

What you'll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Bachelors' degree in Engineering or relevant field
• At least 6 years of experience in database reporting, and demonstrated technical knowledge
• Experience indicative of high proficiency in ABS-SAP systems. A solid understanding and capability coupled with best-practice asset management philosophy.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively influence others

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• At least 10 years' experience in relevant field will be considered in lieu of bachelors' degree
• At least 3 years of operating site experience in an asset management or maintenance planning team.
• Understanding of the design and application of the Rio Tinto Business Solution (SAP) standards.
• LEAN or Six Sigma certifications

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.