Job Description

Shutdown Coordinator - Concentrator

• Opportunity to work for a global company
• Our culture is inclusive, exciting and performance driven
• Role based in Labrador City (no Fly-In-Fly-Out)
• Relocation largely paid for by the company

About the role

We are looking for a Shutdown Coordinator to lead coordinated maintenance shutdowns for the Concentrator. This will include leading teams of supervisors, engineers, contractors, support personnel, operators and maintainers to execute major equipment shutdowns safely, efficiently and with the required quality to deliver area cost and equipment reliability targets.

This role is a great opportunity for someone with a maintenance background to bring their technical and leadership skills to our team while implementing world class shutdown management processes in a way that keeps our people safe. Reporting to the Manager, Concentrator, you will be:

• Be a strong role model and leader in safety and safety engagements
• Working across multiple teams to ensure the safe execution of all shutdown work to the required quality (including documentation, checks, verifications and contents of job packages).
• Proactively and effectively communicating plans and controls to support the success of safely delivering key shutdown objectives
• Working closely with the shutdown planner and asset management team
• Developing and maintaining area shutdown management processes
• Coaching, mentoring and leading personnel required to be involved in all stages of the shutdown planning and execution process.
• Ensuring responsible persons validate and document all work executed during shutdowns with the appropriate quality for required feedback and analysis so that we can continue to improve our processes
• Identifying and implementing ways to reduce cost and generate value by controlling worker hours, tooling and parts (validation, staging, return to stores).
• Managing all work to a schedule, resolving conflicts, evaluating alternatives and giving clear direction to shutdown teams.
• Ensuring good relationships are established with area operational teams; fostering employee engagement at all levels, communicating well through all steps of the shutdown management process to ensure alignment with the business plan.
• Responsible for the development and optimization of the five year plan for major equipment outages, providing support to identify continuous improvement opportunities and possible solutions, prioritizing initiatives and ensuring outcomes are realized.

About you

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

• Undergraduate degree or diploma in engineering or Journeymen Trade Certificate or Technical Diploma (Mechanical or Electrical disciplines preferred)
• At least 3 years experience in asset management, preferably in planning or reliability, or in a maintenance role
• Demonstrated communication and planning skills
• Experience in managing people and working with others.

If will also be beneficial if you have:

• PMP status
• Experience with Microsoft Project, Fluency in the Microsoft Office suite as well as Teams
• Scheduling knowledge using SAP
• High level of business understanding and strong problem solving skills.
• Lateral thinking capability, decision making, organizational and facilitation skills.
• Experience in managing major projects (management of contractors, consultants and multidisciplinary teams).
• Lean and/or six sigma training

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

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

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.

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.

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