Fixed Plant Advisor – Coordinator Ore Delivery System

• Play a key role in keeping the system running safely and efficiently by removing barriers for supervisors and crews and ensuring work is ready to execute. 
• Gain broad exposure across operations, maintenance, and leadership, including hands‑on coordination and supervisory relief.
• Role based in Labrador City, NL (no FIFO option)

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 Fixed Plant Advisor/Coordinator – ODS (Ore Delivery System) to support safe, reliable, and efficient operation and maintenance of our fixed plant assets (ODS). This role provides day-to-day technical, planning, and coordination support to supervisors in both Operations and Maintenance, ensuring work is executed safely, with the right resources, and with minimal delays

This is a great opportunity to support supervisors by enabling them to spend more time in the field with their teams and focus on effective work execution. By working closely with supervisors and front‑line crews, you will help ensure production continuity through timely coordination of information, materials, permits, and resources. From time to time, you will be required to provide supervisory coverage, ensuring leadership continuity during absences. Shift work will required to meet operational needs.

Reporting to the ODS Superintendent, you will be:

• Operational Support: Enable supervisors’ daily plant activities by aligning execution with production plans, maintenance schedules, budgets, and business targets
• Work Execution & Readiness: Support permitting, parts availability, documentation, SAP data quality, and overall job readiness to ensure effective work delivery
• Planning, Scheduling & Follow‑up: Monitor schedule compliance, manage outstanding notifications, prioritize emerging work, and support daily reconciliation and priority setting
• Technical & Reliability Support: Assist with troubleshooting, provide technical documentation and equipment history, and recommend solutions to improve reliability and eliminate defects
• Materials & Work Management: Track critical parts and upgrades, manage consumables efficiently, return unused parts, and promote effective use of work management processes
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Coordination: Work closely with Planners, Schedulers, OEMs, contractors, and operations to support short‑term maintenance and operational planning
• People & Safety Leadership: Promote a strong safety culture, ensure compliance with standards, coach and guide crews, coordinate resources, and provide supervisory backfill

About you

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• 5–10+ years of experience in fixed plant, production plant operations, or industrial maintenance within a heavy industrial environment (iron ore or similar preferred)
• Strong understanding of equipment history, troubleshooting, and plant processes
• Familiarity with SAP or other maintenance/operations systems
• Solid understanding of work management and strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills across multidisciplinary teams (Operations, Maintenance, Planning, Contractors, and OEMs.)
• Flexibility to work shifts and step into a supervisory role when necessary

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

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.

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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