Maintenance Planner – Instrumentation

Maintenance Planner – Instrumentation

• Be part of a group that is safety & results driven, while valuing inclusion
• Key role in a diverse and global mining organization
• Role based in Labrador City, NL

About the role

We are looking for a Maintenance Planner – Instrumentationto ensure all required maintenance activities are planned and scheduled in a manner that maximizes the efficiency of the assigned maintenance crews. This role will ensure the reliability of the operational equipment. The area of responsibility for this position is Labrador City, primarily in Processing Operations.

Reporting to the Superintendent Asset Management – Energy and Site General Services, you will be:

• Ensuring safety needs are given a top priority in work planning.
• Ensure critical risks are identified in the planning process with appropriate controls accounted for so the work can be performed safely and effectively.
• Engaging regularly with the maintenance execution team, fostering the team atmosphere.
• Improving productivity of people, equipment and work quality by eliminating potential delays and obstacles to efficient work execution.
• Providing KPI data showing maintenance performance to the maintenance department and recommending system and design changes to drive improvements.
• Applying Asset Management best practices.
• Managing of repairable items and track them until they return to site.
• Lead the area team in Asset Management key principles, such as Defect Elimination, business improvement projects, RCM, and PMO review activities related to the area of responsibility.

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• Journeyperson Trade Certificate or Technical Diploma or Engineering B.Sc. Preferred Mechanical or Electrical
• Demonstrated in depth planning and scheduling knowledge using a CMMS system – (SAP preferred)
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a similar industrial setting, mining, processing, manufacturing or related setting
• Strong leadership skills
• Maintenance work management processes
• Computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Previous direct supervision experience
• Background in instrumented systems
• Microsoft Project
• Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma training

What we offer
Here is just a glimpse of our industry leading rewards package:

• 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

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.
For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers – generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress.

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world and explore the universe. Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

Where you will 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 2,400 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.

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.

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.