Warehouse Technician

• Join a leader in mining & metals offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities.
• Competitive salary and benefits.
• Work in an underground project located near Superior, Arizona.

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 Warehouse Technician for Operations and Maintenance to provide safe, reliable, and efficient support by managing the receipt, storage, control, and issue of materials, tools, and consumables required for underground development, operations, and maintenance. The role ensures materials are available at the right time and place while maintaining strict inventory control and safety standards.

Reporting to the Principal Advisor Project Controls and working in a collaborative community within the team, you will:

Role Responsibilities

• Receive, inspect, and record incoming materials, equipment, and consumables
• Perform Goods Receipts and inventory transactions in SAP
• Accurately issue parts and materials to operations and maintenance
• Support staged deliveries for work areas, shafts, declines, and workshops.
• Coordinate deliveries and material movements between surface and underground locations
• Participate in daily safety meetings, pre‑starts, and hazard identification activities
• Ensure all materials are stored, handled, and transported in compliance with site procedures and regulatory requirements
• Maintain clean, organized, and clearly marked underground and surface warehouse locations
• Maintain accurate inventory levels through cycle counting and spot checks
• Support replenishment, vendor‑managed inventory (VMI), and stock optimization initiatives
• Identify obsolete, surplus, or critical stock items and escalate as required
• Assist with returns, warranty claims, and supplier follow‑up
• Assign material numbers for warehouse inventory items
• Operate various forklifts such as TL1255 telehandler to offload material received.
• Operator proficiently in SAP for daily logging and receiving materials
• Familiarity with Spares Finder
• Manage locker assignments of employees

About you

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Valid driver’s license
• 4+ years in a warehouse experience
• Must be proficient in Windows office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook)
• Experience in SAP
• Must be able to effectively manage multiple tasks while maintaining accuracy and flexibility
• Must be a team player with strong communication skills
• Must be able to work effectively and professionally with people at all levels within the company

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: 

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• Advantageous salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees 
• 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
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program, which allows you to purchase Rio Tinto Company shares
• Comprehensive leave policies which cover all moments that matter in life: PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave 
• A favorable child-caregiver leave program (Up to 100% salary top-up)
• Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing
• Ongoing Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family; to help in addressing educational opportunities, addiction treatment, depression, stress, domestic issues, financial management, and legal concerns 
• Our team and industry experts are here to support and work with you to explore your learning potential and career goals 

Where you will be working

You will be joining Resolution Copper at a pivotal moment in the project’s history. With the Resolution Copper Land Exchange now complete, the project is advancing its next phase of technical work, community engagement, and state permitting activities.

Resolution Copper has the potential to supply nearly 25% of total U.S. copper demand and generate several thousand direct and indirect jobs in the Pioneer Mining District of Arizona, delivering an economic value of several billion dollars over the life of the mine. The project will rely on block caving, a proven underground mining method that uses gravity to extract ore from a deposit located more than 2,000 meters below the surface. This technique is the most viable way to safely and efficiently recover the resource.

As development continues, Resolution Copper will expand its underground operations, conduct extensive drilling and orebody characterization, and maintain both the permitting process and ongoing public engagement with Native American tribes, local communities, and stakeholders.

The Resolution Copper project is vital to securing America’s energy future, infrastructure needs, and national defense by providing a domestic supply of copper and other critical minerals. Once operational, it has the potential to become one of the largest copper mines in the United States, contribute approximately $1 billion annually to Arizona’s economy, and create thousands of local jobs in a region with more than a century‑long mining heritage.

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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