Superintendent – Power Ops

Superintendent – Power Ops

Join a team that prioritizes safety, values inclusion, and fosters a positive work environment.

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This permanent, full-time role is based in Kitimat, BC, with traveling to Kemano as required. Enjoy the tranquility of a small community with a passion for the great outdoors.

About the role

At Rio Tinto, we believe in finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs. We are looking for a Superintendent to lead a team of dedicated professionals, balancing risk, optimizing asset performance, and managing asset management budgets for the Power Operations department. This role involves ensuring the safe, reliable, and environmentally responsible operation of our Power Operations department. As we expand and strengthen our leadership team, this role will play a key part in ensuring continuous reliability, through best practices, safety focus and team engagement.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a safety-oriented and engaging leader to make a tangible impact, continuously improve operation and maintenance, and gain expertise in a specialized field within the larger context of industrial production.

We are an open, connected international team of technical specialists using some of the most exciting data and tools on the planet. As the world leader in automation and smart mining, we offer industry-leading technical development programs that recognize the unique nature of your role. These programs provide opportunities to grow your career through a dedicated technical path while being rewarded for your unique skills.

Responsibilities

Reporting to the Asset Management Manager and the Power & Projects Director, and working a Monday to Friday schedule, you will be:

• Promoting and ensuring compliance with Rio Tinto’s Health, Safety, and Environmental standards, fostering a “zero harm” safety culture. 
• Supporting Power Operations and Asset Management in continuously improving short and long term maintenance strategies.
• Implementing and supporting the reliability excellence program and action plans in Asset Protection.
• Identifying and resolving maintenance and equipment issues within the operating department or plant-wide, including root cause analysis and recommendations.
• Addressing equipment operational and design issues to achieve and sustain targeted production levels within budget.
• Assisting in the preparation and management of annual maintenance budgets, ensuring conformance to budget.
• Preparing and managing capital budgets to achieve business outcomes.
• Leading and developing a team of technical professionals, enhancing overall leadership capability and staff development.
• Maintaining excellent communication with stakeholders across the site.
• Providing technical support for critical breakdowns and incidents beyond regular working hours as required.
• Fostering a culture of continuous improvement, supporting the team in implementing improvement initiatives, competency training, and technical advances.
• Applying business evaluation techniques and risk assessment principles to optimize operations and service delivery.
• Optimizing production and driving efficiency through leadership, engagement, and application of technology.
• Identifying threats and opportunities to business objectives through data, conversations, and observations; diagnosing root causes and determining required interventions.
• Acting as a liaison between the leadership team and the shopfloor.
• Supporting active listening initiatives at “Lean 3” meetings to quickly respond to employee concerns.

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
• A Bachelor’s Degree in electrical or mechanical engineering, or relevant leadership experience or technical/trade background and industry experience.
• Effective leadership experience within a relevant industry, showcasing the ability to guide, mentor, and empower teams to drive positive employee engagement.
• A proactive and strategic approach to leadership, fostering a work environment that encourages initiative, innovation, and forward-thinking strategies.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills across teams and stakeholders.
• Excellent knowledge of work management processes.
• A minimum of 5 years of industrial maintenance/operations experience, ideally having led people within a unionized organization.
• Understanding of cost structure and optimization.
• Prior knowledge of Lean/6 Sigma methodologies is an asset.
• Knowledge of asset management principles.
• A minimum of a valid B.C. Class 7 Driver’s license or equivalent.

Please note: Fly-in-fly-out arrangements are not available. A domestic relocation program is provided if applicable.

What we offer

Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.

The base salary range for this role is $126,320 – $189,480 CAD in addition to allowances, bonus, equity, health or retirement benefits, and any other discretionary benefits offered at Rio Tinto. Our base salary ranges are based on role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by the skills, experience, and impact you bring to the role. Our talent acquisition partners can share more during the hiring process.

At Rio Tinto, we offer a competitive reward package that reflects the value that each person brings to our business. As part of our pay philosophy, we believe equity represents fairness, and is rooted in our values and aligns with what we stand for.

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts
• Domestic relocation program

Where you’ll be working

Rio Tinto’s BC Works is a part of the Atlantic Operations of the Aluminium product group and has been operating in British Columbia for over 65 years. With industry leading new technology and four generations of employee expertise, as well as our hydropower facility at Kemano and the Nechako Reservoir, the Kitimat smelter is one of the world’s most competitive aluminium smelters, producing aluminium with one of the lowest carbon footprints in the industry.

Rio Tinto is proud to operate in BC alongside our 1,000 employees, partners, community stakeholders and First Nations, and we look forward to the next 60 years.

To learn more about our Aluminium Operations, check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=25&v=CTp1jkRKeBI   

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.

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.

Chaque voix compte

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.

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.

Every Voice Matters

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.