Shift Coordinator, Hot Metals Maintenance

• Our friendly teams look after each other because your safety and wellbeing are always our priority

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

• DuPont schedule shiftwork, based in Salt Lake City, UT

At Rio Tinto, we are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming workplace where everyone feels safe, respected, and able to succeed. We actively encourage applications from women and from people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We know that great technical capability comes in many forms, and we’re focused on building teams that reflect the communities we operate in and support each other to do their best work.

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

Join our team as a Shift Coordinator – Hot Metals, where you’ll lead and support a team of maintenance tradespeople in delivering safe, reliable, and high-quality maintenance work. In this role, you’ll help ensure consistent application of asset management practices while creating an environment where your team can do their best work.

You’ll play an important part in maintaining the safety, reliability, and performance of our operations. While building a strong, collaborative team culture. We’re committed to maximizing the value of our assets through thoughtful planning, innovation, and continuous improvement. Our approach includes modeling, forecasting, and lifecycle management. Always with a focus on safety, sustainability, and long-term success.

Just as important, we’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where people feel respected, supported, and empowered to grow.

In this role, you will:

• Lead and support a team of tradespeople in executing maintenance activities safely and efficiently

• Coordinate and allocate resources to respond to breakdowns and planned maintenance work

• Provide guidance and support to resolve day-to-day challenges in the field

• Promote and reinforce safe work practices and ensure compliance with safety standards

• Partner with stakeholders to deliver maintenance plans, including shutdown activities

• Support a culture of accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement

About you

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
  Leadership: Experience leading, coaching, or supporting a team in a collaborative and inclusive way

• Maintenance & Asset Management: Solid background in maintenance operations, with an understanding of equipment reliability and familiarity with asset management principles (lifecycle, reliability, risk)

• Problem Solving & Execution: Ability to assess challenges, think critically, and take practical, timely action

• Communication & Collaboration: Clear, respectful communication with team members, leaders, and cross-functional partners

• Planning & Quality Focus: Strong organizational skills to prioritize and coordinate work in a fast-paced environment, with a focus on delivering high-quality outcomes

Even if your profile does not fully meet all qualifications, we encourage you to apply—transferable skills and the right attitude are highly valued.

What we offer

Be recognised 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. 

• Competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with an annual incentive bonus. 

• 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. 

• Attractive share ownership plan. 

• Comprehensive leave policies which cover all the moments that matter in life: PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave. 

• A generous parental leave policy, which ensures you’re able to spend quality time with your new family.  

• Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing.  

• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), which provides confidential counselling or expert guidance for you and your family to help get through life’s challenges. 

Where you will 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.

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

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.

Rio Tinto participates in E- Verify to confirm work authorization. Please visit http://www.ucis.gov/ for more information.

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