Superintendent, Reliability Engineering

Rio Tinto•Salt Lake City, UT

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Superintendent, Reliability Engineering leads the team responsible for predictive maintenance, reliability and maintenance engineering across Smelter and Refinery operations at Rio Tinto Kennecott. The role focuses on helping assets perform safely, consistently and efficiently over their intended lifespan by strengthening maintenance strategies, asset health monitoring and defect elimination. It combines technical reliability expertise with people leadership and long-term asset planning. The position is permanent and based in Salt Lake City, Utah. It reports to the Manager, Smelter & Refinery Maintenance and works closely with Maintenance, Asset Management and operational teams. Kennecott is a fully integrated mining operation just outside Salt Lake City and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto.

Requirements

Commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
Demonstrated reliability engineering or maintenance experience in a smelter, refinery, mineral processing, manufacturing or comparable safety-critical industrial environment.
Demonstrated experience leading professional technical teams, including coaching, performance management and delivery of team objectives.
Working knowledge of asset life-cycle planning, asset criticality, equipment performance, maintenance strategies and tactics.
Hands-on capability with reliability and defect elimination methods, including Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Reliability-Centred Maintenance (RCM), Preventive Maintenance Optimization (PMO) and condition monitoring.
Experience using SAP or a comparable enterprise asset management or maintenance system to support maintenance and reliability work.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of fixed plant and process equipment used in smelting, refining or similar heavy industrial operations.
Experience contributing to long-range asset management plans, major shutdown scope development and alignment of maintenance strategies with production plans.
A qualification in engineering, maintenance, asset management or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach and manage predictive maintenance, reliability and maintenance engineering professionals to deliver department objectives and improve asset health.
Champion Defect Elimination and Root Cause Analysis programs to reduce recurring failures and improve equipment reliability.
Develop and improve maintenance strategies and tactics using asset criticality, condition monitoring and reliability methods.
Partner with the Maintenance Manager and Asset Management team to maintain a high-quality 5–10 year asset management outlook, including major shutdown scopes aligned with production plans.
Plan, organize and manage team priorities, work packages and schedules to improve utilization and productivity of plant, labour and equipment.
Embed proactive safety practices, set clear expectations, and support training and safe execution for employees and contractors.
Use asset health and performance insights to identify opportunities, communicate progress to leaders and stakeholders, and recommend practical solutions.
Apply Rio Tinto operating practices to eliminate non-value-adding work, strengthen cost discipline and support operational excellence.

Benefits

Advantageous salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees.
Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision and life insurance coverage, plus various voluntary benefits.
Retirement plan with up to 6% defined company contribution and a 401(k) matching program.
Employee share program allowing employees to purchase Rio Tinto Company shares.
PTO, paid holidays and paid bereavement leave.
Child-caregiver leave program with up to 100% salary top-up.
Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with wellbeing incentives.
Employee Assistance Program for employees and their families.
Support from the team and industry experts to explore learning potential and career goals.
Safety-focused and inclusive working environment.