Maintenance Planner

Maintenance Planner - Scheduler

• Work in a safety and environmentally oriented business
• Build a solid career as a maintenance professional
• Work within a harmonized maintenance team based in Salt Lake City Utah

About the role

We are looking for a Planner - Scheduler to ensure that maintenance work is planned with safety first in accordance with all Federal State and Rio Tinto/KUCC safety and environmental policies and to provide job instructions to safely complete all maintenance tasks

This role is a great opportunity to join the maintenance team at the Kennecott Utah Copper Tailings facility and build your career as a maintenance professional. Working a 5 days on /2 off roster and reporting to the Tailings Operations & Maintenance Superintendent and Senior Maintenance Coordinator you will be:

• Scoping and planning maintenance activities to include job instructions materials specialty tools and drawings as required
• Creating and maintaining a zero-based maintenance budget
• Ordering and tracking long lead maintenance materials
• Creating and maintaining standard work instructions
• Reviewing maintenance notifications and work orders on a daily basis
• Creating parts material numbers and updating bills of materials as needed
• Create weekly draft schedule
• Schedule weekly maintenance work
• Assist Maintenance Supervisor as needed.
• Manage backlog and perform other duties as required to insure safe and efficient work.
• Rotating weekly on call coverage for off-shift emergencies.

About you

To be successfully considered for this role you will have:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• 2 years of related technical experience
• Prior experience using SAP in a maintenance capacity
• Advanced abilities with Microsoft Office specifically Excel
• Ability to communicate effectively (verbal/written) with stakeholders at all levels

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Bachelors degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering

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 youve 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 is a fully integrated mining operation located just outside Salt Lake City Utah US. Kennecott is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto. For more than 110 years Kennecott has been mining and processing minerals from the rich orebody of the Bingham Canyon Mine. Kennecott is a strong economic driver and strives to be a valuable community partner through strategic partnerships charitable giving and sustainable development practices.

About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore copper aluminium critical minerals and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people communities and nations to thrive.

We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental social and governance standards. But we cant do it on our own so were focused on creating partnerships to solve problems create win-win situations and meet opportunities.

Respect and Inclusion

Rio Tinto is committed to equal employment opportunity. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race color sex age religion national origin disability or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel safe respected and valued. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome but are essential to our success. We treat all our people fairly and with dignity.

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