Planner / Scheduler – Pellet Plant Maintenance (Temporary – 8 month contract)

• Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities
• Be part of a group that is safety driven, values inclusion, and requires relocation to Labrador City (this is not a fly-in/fly-out position)
• Based in Labrador City, NL, a vibrant northern community known for its strong sense of community and unparalleled access to nature and outdoor activities.

We’re Finding Better Ways™ to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future.  Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.

About the role

We are looking for a Planner / Scheduler – Pellet Plant Maintenance (Temporary – 8 month contract) to support Safe Work Execution. The Planner/Scheduler will ensure that all weekly maintenance activities are planned and scheduled in a way that maximizes the efficiency of our people and equipment, while improving operational reliability.

This is a great opportunity for a safety‑focused, detail‑oriented maintenance professional to contribute through effective planning and scheduling within a reliability‑driven operation.

Enjoy the outdoors year-round; camping, fishing, hunting, hiking and boating throughout the summer and fall seasons. Winter thrills include groomed snowmobile trails, snowshoeing trails, alpine and cross-country skiing, including night skiing, often beneath the Northern Lights.

Reporting to the area Superintendent, Maintenance Planning, Pellet Plant and working in a challenging and exciting environment, within the Pellet Plant Team, you will be:

• Ensuring safety needs are given top priority in work planning, identifying critical risks in the planning process and ensuring appropriate controls are in place so work can be performed safely and effectively
• Identifying and planning all maintenance tasks to ensure equipment reliability, reviewing work within the required scheduling period while considering asset criticality, regulatory requirements, repairability, severity, and safety impact, including project maintenance work
• Prioritizing the accountable area and ensuring work is fully planned, with all required resources, materials, and specialized tooling identified and assigned the appropriate status
• Liaising with key stakeholders to ensure effective communication of plans and upcoming maintenance activities, and to support the implementation of appropriate risk management strategies
• Providing performance data demonstrating maintenance results to various departments and recommending system and design changes to improve processes and materials
• Applying shutdown management best practices and scheduling the shipping of repairable items, tracking them until they return to site
• Participating in defect elimination initiatives, safety culture programs, continuous improvement projects, reliability‑focused maintenance activities, engineering project work, and review activities related to the area of responsibility

About you

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Journeyperson trade or equivalent technical education in a mechanical discipline, or 2–5 years’ experience in a similar industrial setting (mining, processing, or related); a combination of education and experience will be considered
• Uncompromising commitment to working safely and intelligently
• Demonstrated rigor in the application of asset management standards
• Strong working knowledge of SAP and the Microsoft Office Suite, with effective organizational and time management skills to manage a wide‑ranging and priority‑changing workload
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team, prioritize tasks and common goals, and build strong relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
• Previous maintenance planning experience and lean manufacturing or Six Sigma training are considered assets.
• We encourage women and indigenous candidates to apply

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Previous maintenance planning experience
• Lean manufacturing or Six Sigma training

What we offer

• 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

Where you’ll be working

We are a leading North American producer and exporter of premium iron ore pellets and high-grade concentrate with average iron grades greater than 66%. With a team of over 2,700 employees, IOC is committed to providing value and continuity for our customers, employees, communities and shareholders through our unique mine to port approach, taking advantage of our full integration and wholly owned infrastructure to deliver our high-quality concentrate and pellets to our customers across the globe.

IOC’s operations include a mine with five operational pits, a concentrator and a pelletizing plant located near Labrador City in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. We also operate a wholly-owned 418 km railway, the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway (QNS&L), that links our Labrador operations to Company-owned port facilities in Sept-Iles.

Working at Rio Tinto also means choosing to be part of a company recognized one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers in 2026 and one of Canada’s Top Employers for Young People in 2025.

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 can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win situations and meet opportunities.

Respect and Inclusion
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.

À propos de Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto est un chef de file mondial du secteur des sociétés minières et des matériaux. Nous sommes établis dans 35 pays où nous produisons du minerai de fer, du cuivre, de l’aluminium, des minéraux critiques et d’autres matériaux nécessaires à la transition énergétique mondiale et à la prospérité des personnes, des communautés et des nations. 

Nous exerçons nos activités depuis 150 ans, en nous appuyant sur les connaissances accumulées au fil des générations et sur les différents continents. Notre mission – trouver de meilleures façons de fournir les matériaux dont le monde a besoin – nous guide dans notre quête d’innovation et d’amélioration continue, dans le but de fabriquer des produits à faibles émissions et répondant aux bonnes normes environnementales, sociales et de gouvernance. Mais comme nous ne pouvons pas y arriver seuls, nous nous attachons à créer des partenariats nous permettant de résoudre des problèmes, de créer des situations mutuellement avantageuses et de saisir des occasions.

Respect and Inclusion
Chez Rio Tinto, nous accueillons favorablement et encourageons les candidatures d’Autochtones, de femmes, de membres de la communauté LGBTQ2S+, de travailleurs âgés, de personnes handicapées et de représentants d’origines diverses.

Nous sommes déterminés à créer un milieu inclusif où les employés se sentent à l’aise d’être eux-mêmes. Nous souhaitons de plus que chacun ait l’impression que sa voix compte, que toutes les cultures sont respectées et que les points de vue, aussi variés soient-ils, sont non seulement bienvenus, mais également essentiels à notre succès. Nous nous traitons mutuellement avec équité et dignité, sans égard à la race, au genre, à la nationalité, à l’origine ethnique, à la religion, à l’âge, à l’orientation sexuelle ou à tout autre aspect distinctif.

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