Senior Advisor, Warehousing

Join Our Rio Tinto Team as a Senior Advisor, Warehousing

Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Job Type: Full-Time with competitive pay and benefits
Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, Day Shift

About the Opportunity:

In this supervisory role, you will be responsible for driving the consistent implementation of standard work practices, processes, and tools across multiple business units. Your focus will be on leading teams, ensuring operational excellence, and maintaining oversight to enhance service productivity and efficiency.

What You’ll Be Doing – Building a Zero Harm Commitment:

• Lead a logistics function, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and operational standards
• Enforce adherence to established logistics principles, practices, and procedures
• Oversee end-to-end logistical operations, including inventory control, warehousing, and transportation to maintain optimal supply levels
• Collaborate cross-functionally with teams involved in sourcing, inventory, transport, warehousing, and customer service to ensure seamless operations
• Monitor and optimize logistics workflows using systems, controls, and performance metrics to drive productivity and quality
• Manage personnel activities including recruitment, training, and performance supervision
• Ensure full compliance with legal regulations and internal company policies

What You’ll Bring (Minimum Requirements):

• Unwavering Safety Leadership: Fully committed to Rio Tinto’s Zero Harm philosophy, with a proven track record of driving safe work practices, regulatory compliance, proactive risk mitigation, and fostering a strong safety culture that protects people, assets, and the environment.

• Expertise: Over a decade of experience managing complex end-to-end logistics operations, inventory control, transportation, and warehousing, delivering safe, efficient, and reliable results in industrial environments.

• Contract Management Leadership: Experienced in leading third-party vendor and contractor management, including contract negotiation, performance monitoring, compliance oversight, and ensuring alignment with safety, operational, and financial objectives.

• Strong Leadership and Team Development: Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop diverse teams while fostering accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement in safety and operations.

• Process Standardization and Optimization: Skilled in implementing standard work practices, Lean methodologies, and continuous improvement initiatives that enhance safety, efficiency, service delivery, and cost control.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Adept at partnering with sourcing, procurement, transportation, warehousing, customer service, and operational teams to deliver seamless, integrated logistics performance aligned with organizational goals.

• Data-Driven Performance Management: Proficient in leveraging systems, metrics, and controls to monitor safety and operational KPIs, identify risks, and drive targeted improvements.

• Mining and Industrial Supply Chain Expertise: In-depth understanding of logistics operations within mining and heavy industry, with a focus on compliance, high-risk activities, and safety-critical environments.

• Commitment to Continuous Learning and Innovation: Dedicated to staying current with evolving industry standards and bringing forward innovative, safe, and sustainable solutions that align with Rio Tinto’s long-term success.

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 you’ve helped the world progress. We provide:

• Inclusive Environment: A safety-focused and inclusive working environment.
• Competitive Salary: Advantageous salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees.
• Health Programs: Access to top-tier family-friendly health programs including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life insurance coverage, and various voluntary benefits.
• Retirement Savings: Excellent retirement plan including up to 6% defined company contribution; Generous 401(k) matching program.
• Employee Share Program: Generous Rio Tinto employee share program, allowing you to purchase Rio Tinto Company shares.
• Leave Policies: Comprehensive leave policies covering all moments that matter in life: PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave.
• Child-Caregiver Leave: Favorable child-caregiver leave program.
• Discount Programs: Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing.
• Support Programs: Ongoing Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family to help address educational opportunities, addiction treatment, depression, stress, domestic issues, financial management, and legal concerns.
• Career Development: Our team and industry experts are here to support and work with you to explore your learning potential and career goals.

Where You’ll Be Working:

Our Kennecott mine, located just outside Salt Lake City, Utah, is a world-class copper mining operation. We mine and process copper, gold, silver, molybdenum, tellurium, and sulfuric acid. Since 1903, Kennecott has been a top producer, contributing approximately 11% 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.

Every Voice Matters

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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