Rio Tinto

Superintendent, Electrical Maintenance & Engineering

Salt Lake City, UT

full_time

About This Job

Join Our Rio Tinto Team as a Superintendent, Electrical Maintenance & Engineering Location

Salt Lake County, Utah

Job Type

Full-Time with competitive pay and benefits

Work Schedule

Monday-Friday, 7 30 am – 4 00 pm with on-call responsibilities

About The Opportunity

We are seeking a dynamic

Superintendent, Electrical Maintenance & Engineering

to lead our team of electrical engineering professionals, providing expert advice and support to ensure the safe and efficient delivery of our operational plans.

What You’ll Be Doing – Building a Zero Harm Commitment

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Design and Organize Develop an effective asset management function that aligns people, processes, systems, technology, measures, and benchmarks.

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Lead and Manage Oversee teams and resources, setting role and competency requirements to meet strategic objectives and plans.

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Collaborate Work with product groups, business units, and sites to share learnings and support replication opportunities.

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Prioritize Safety Establish safety as the key priority for all operational strategies, policies, and processes.

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Model Safety Discipline Ensure rigorous safety practices through proactive behaviors and clear expectations for all employees and contractors.

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Maximize Efficiency Drive significant cost reductions and establish rigorous cost discipline to maximize free cash flow.

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Achieve Operational Excellence Safeguard turnaround objectives in mining, smelting, refining, and rail operations.

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Communicate Effectively Provide clear performance updates to leaders and key stakeholders, proposing solutions to challenges and initiatives to seize opportunities.

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Identify Improvements Direct improvement opportunities within electrical asset systems and processes.

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Manage Resources Plan and manage budget and resources for electrical systems at the Smelter and Refinery to ensure asset health over a 2-5 year outlook.

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Collaborate Across Departments Work effectively with multiple departments to ensure electrical standards are followed.

What You’ll Bring (Minimum Requirements)

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Education Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or licensed Electrician in a related field.

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Experience At least 5 years of experience managing professionals in the field of expertise.

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Leadership Proven ability to manage a team of electrical engineers, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.

Bonus Points if You Have

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Compliance Experience ensuring site compliance with electrical engineering standards and regularly reviewing these standards.

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Project Management Expertise in overseeing electrical engineering projects, ensuring timely, budget-conscious, and high-standard completion.

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Leadership Ability to lead a team of professionals to safely and productively deliver department objectives.

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

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Inclusive Environment A safety-focused and inclusive working environment.

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Competitive Salary Advantageous salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees.

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Health Programs Access to top-tier family-friendly health programs including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life insurance coverage, and various voluntary benefits.

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Retirement Savings Excellent retirement plan including up to 6% defined company contribution; Generous 401(k) matching program.

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Employee Share Program Generous Rio Tinto employee share program, allowing you to purchase Rio Tinto Company shares.

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Leave Policies Comprehensive leave policies covering all moments that matter in life PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave.

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Child-Caregiver Leave Favorable child-caregiver leave program.

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Discount Programs Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing.

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Support Programs Ongoing Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family to help address educational opportunities, addiction treatment, depression, stress, domestic issues, financial management, and legal concerns.

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Career Development Our team and industry experts are here to support and work with you to explore your learning potential and career goals.

Where You’ll Be Working

Our Kennecott mine, located just outside Salt Lake City, Utah, is a world-class copper mining operation. We mine and process copper, gold, silver, molybdenum, tellurium, and sulfuric acid. Since 1903, Kennecott has been a top producer, contributing approximately 11% of U.S. annual copper production.

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.

Every Voice Matters

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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