Planner, Concentrator Maintenance

Rio Tinto • Salt Lake City, UT

10d • Onsite

About The Position

The Maintenance Planner/Scheduler supports the planning, scheduling, and execution of maintenance activities at Rio Tinto’s Kennecott operation near Salt Lake City, Utah. The role establishes maintenance priorities, develops planned and preventative maintenance schedules, and ensures labour, materials, and equipment are planned for effective execution. It uses SAP or other CMMS/work management systems to maintain plans and work instructions, analyse maintenance and asset performance data, and contribute to forecasting, budgeting, and cost tracking. Working with operational and functional teams, the planner supports safe and efficient maintenance delivery and continuous improvement of work management practices.

The position reports to the Superintendent, Asset Planning and Projects. The role supports a world-class, integrated copper mining operation that includes a concentrator, smelter, and refinery.

Requirements

• Commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
• Demonstrated experience in maintenance planning, scheduling, or work management within an industrial, manufacturing, processing, or asset-intensive environment.
• Experience developing planned and preventative maintenance schedules.
• Proficiency using SAP or other CMMS/work management systems.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret maintenance and asset performance data.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and organisational skills.

Nice To Haves

• A trade qualification, technical qualification, or degree in Engineering, Asset Management, or a related discipline.
• Experience supporting shutdowns, major maintenance campaigns, or reliability improvement programmes.

Responsibilities

• Identify and validate notifications and work requests to consolidate maintenance requirements.
• Plan maintenance work so tasks can be performed safely, efficiently, and effectively in support of maintenance strategies.
• Provide asset scheduling inputs to optimise cost and efficiency.
• Plan and schedule the labour, materials, and equipment required to execute maintenance activities.
• Complete post-work execution tasks and maintenance administration to support ongoing CMMS data and system improvement.
• Collect and collate work management data to support reviews and identify improvement actions.
• Govern maintenance scheduling to maintain compliance with safety, environmental, and statutory requirements.
• Create and maintain maintenance plans, task lists, job instructions, and work procedures within SAP.
• Support the development and management of maintenance budgets using Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) principles.
• Contribute to forecasting, budgeting, and cost tracking for maintenance and major maintenance activities.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary reflective of skills and experience, with an annual incentive bonus.
• Family-friendly health programs including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage, plus voluntary benefits.
• Retirement plan including up to 6% defined company contribution and a 401k matching program.
• Share ownership plan.
• Paid time off, paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave.
• Parental leave.
• Leisure discount programs.
• Access to Virgin Pulse with wellbeing incentives.
• Employee Assistance Program providing confidential counselling or expert guidance for employees and their families.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed