Senior Adviser Shutdown

Senior Advisor, Shutdown

· Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion

· Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities

· Apply your creativity to our huge mine datasets

· Access to industry-leading technical development programmes located in Salt Lake City

· I Band Role

About the role

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

We are looking for a Senior Advisor Shutdown to be accountable for implementing leading practices for shutdowns and coordinating and reporting on critical path for the annual value chain outage.

This is a great opportunity for enabling and assuring industry leading performance, for anticipating and identifying threats and opportunities for safe and efficient delivery of production plans, and for ensuring the right focus for optimization and risk mitigation across the full value stream.

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 Manager Asset Risk, Assurance, Transportation & Logistics and working in a collaborative community within the Kennecott Team you will:

· Create and maintain a singular visual shutdown schedule for the annual shutdown across the value stream outlining critical path that includes capital (CAPEX) and operating (OPEX) scopes of work

· Identify, communicate, and update critical path and near critical path scopes of the annual shutdown throughout execution

· Define time of year for optimizing annual and 3 yearly shutdown leveraging input from all stakeholders

· Own the Asset Management sustaining capital list and process to maintain

· Subject Matter Expert (SME) on shutdown management process

· Shutdown management coach for site shutdown managers

· Ensures adherence to shutdown management process across the value chain

o Audit processes and organizes Current State Assessments

· Benchmarking shutdown processes and replicate/implement best practices

To be effective in this role you will also need to:

· Engage with annual planning process, shutdown planners, managers, and Projects and Engineering to ensure clear alignment across the full value stream

· Collaborate with stakeholders (Technical planning, Operations, Asset Management, Projects, business improvement, Financial & Commercial) to influence, prioritize and support optimal timing of shutdown

· Interface with relevant central teams (Copper Technical and Productivity & Technical Support) to maximize their support for the business and replication of leading practices

What you'll bring

· A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

· Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical field

· Proficiency in Primavera scheduling software

· PMP Project Management Professional Certification

· 7+ years of related experience

· Ability to understand and explain complex, inter-related mining and processing systems

· Skilled in collaboration with a broad range of stakeholders from mine and plant personnel to organization leaders

It will also be beneficial if you have:

· Exposure to Lean and Six Sigma processes

· Experience with very large complex polymetallic ore bodies

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

· A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees

· Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions

· Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs and pension plan

· Wellbeing benefits

· Generous Rio Tinto employee share program

· Employee Assistance Program

· Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matter

· Leave for all of life's reasons (vacation/annual, 4 months paid parental, sick leave)

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 aluminum 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

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, 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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