Underground Shift Coordinator

• A company with a world-class reputation for safety and performance
• Foster a collaborative team environment built on strong work ethics
• Excellent opportunity to develop your career and further develop your technical expertise – Salt Lake City, UT

About the role

We are looking for an Underground Shift Coordinator to work closely with and in support of the Project Team and Owners Team. This role will report to the Underground area manager and be responsible for:

• Oversee and coordinate project work activities
• Execution of planning and integration with operations
• Oversite of Project Contractors
• Ensure proper permitting
• Quality assurance
• Coordination of Pre-commissioning and commissioning activities
• Coordinate day to day work scope between other contractor teams and active operations
• Manage project daily reports and project documentation

Key Deliverables:

• Ensure successful and safe execution of projects through detailed planning and execution of scopes of work in compliance with the following:
• RTKC HSE standards and programs
• RTKC Contractor Management standards
• RTKC Permitting processes
• Construction Contract scope, schedule and cost
• Engineering and Design specifications and quality
• Support the project team in the development and execution of the following:
• RTKC HSE and Contractor Management documentation
• Scope of Work documents
• Project Execution Plan documents
• Quality Assurance/Commissioning Execution Plan documents
• Quality Assurance/Commissioning forms and documentation
• Construction, Pre-commissioning and Commissioning Schedules

About you

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• 10+ years’ experience in an underground mining capacity
• 2+ years’ supervisor experience
• Underground development mining experience.
• Underground construction experience
• Problem solving skills
• Uncompromised commitment to working safely and creating a Zero Harm working environment.

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Experience with operational personnel coordination
• Experience with cross functional team management
• Critical Risk Management and practices
• Strong communication and conflict resolution skills – incident management
• Quality assurance, pre-commissioning and commissioning experience a plus
• High level of schedule development and management experience
• Word processing, Spreadsheet management, Email management (Microsoft products)

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:

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• Advantageous salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees
• Access to top-tier family-friendly health programs including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life insurance coverage, and various voluntary benefits.
• Excellent retirement plan including up to 6% defined company contribution; Generous 401k matching program
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program, which allows you to purchase Rio Tinto Company shares.
• Comprehensive leave policies which cover all moments that matter in life: PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave.
• A favorable child-caregiver leave program (Up to 100% salary top-up)
• Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing
• Ongoing Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family; to help in addressing educational opportunities, addiction treatment, depression, stress, domestic issues, financial management, and legal concerns.
• Our team and industry experts are here to support and work with you to explore your learning potential and career goals

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’ll be working

Our Kennecott mine is a world-class, fully integrated copper mining operation, including a concentrator, smelter and refinery, located just outside Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States. We produce copper, precious metals including gold and silver, molybdenum and sulfuric acid. Kennecott has been mining and processing minerals from the rich ore body of the Bingham Canyon Mine since 1903, and is one of the top producing mines in the world, comprising approximately 11 percent of U.S. annual copper production.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQ+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

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