Supervisor - Maintenance

Supervisor - Refinery Maintenance

Lead a skilled refinery maintenance team and help drive safe, reliable operations at a world-class copper operation. Work a 4 on/4 off dayshift schedule at our Kennecott operation near Salt Lake City, Utah. Join a global mining leader offering strong career development opportunities and a safety-first culture.

At Rio Tinto, we are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming workplace where everyone feels safe, respected, and able to succeed. We actively encourage applications from women and from people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We're Finding Better Ways™ to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future. Our values - care, courage and curiosity - guide how we work and how we treat each other.

About the Role

We are looking for a Supervisor - Refinery Maintenance to lead a skilled team of maintenance tradespeople and help ensure refinery maintenance activities are delivered safely, reliably, and efficiently. In this role, you will support safe work execution, maintain critical assets, and help drive continuous improvement across the refinery maintenance function. This is a great opportunity for a hands-on maintenance leader to support frontline teams, strengthen work management practices, and contribute to a culture where people feel valued, respected, and empowered to do their best work on a 4 on/4 off dayshift schedule, including holidays and weekends.

Reporting to the Superintendent, Refinery Maintenance and working within a collaborative refinery maintenance team at Kennecott, you will:

• Prepare for and lead shift handovers and start-of-shift meetings that clearly align priorities, risks, and controls for the day
• Engage with operations, planning, engineering, and technical stakeholders to prioritize daily work and support safe, value-adding execution
• Own breakdown maintenance activities within the work management process and ensure quality work order data is captured to standard
• Coach, develop, and provide feedback to frontline team members to strengthen safety, quality, efficiency, skills, and performance
• Support identification, prioritization, planning, and quality review of repair work, including resource, material, and equipment requirements
• Partner with planning, scheduling, engineering, and frontline teams to improve task lists, preventative maintenance scope, and standard work instructions
• Support defect elimination, FLIR improvements, and continuous improvement activities that improve reliability and reduce repeat issues
• Engage with vendors and inventory partners to address non-conformances, improve deliverables, and support effective material availability

About You

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Experience leading or coordinating teams in a maintenance or operational environment
• Previous experience with fixed plant maintenance in an industrial setting from either a mechanical or electrical trade perspective
• Knowledge of maintenance planning, asset management, reliability principles, and work management processes
• Strong communication, stakeholder engagement, problem-solving, decision-making, and prioritization skills
• Ability to work a 4 on/4 off dayshift schedule, including holidays and weekends

Even if your profile does not fully meet all qualifications, we encourage you to apply; transferable skills and the right attitude are highly valued.

This role is open to candidates who are legally authorized to work in the United States. We are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this position.

What We Offer

Be recognised 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
• Competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with an annual incentive bonus
• 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 and a generous 401(k) matching program
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Comprehensive leave policies which cover all the moments that matter in life, including paid time off, paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave
• A generous parental leave policy, which ensures you are able to spend quality time with your new family
• Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), which provides confidential counselling or expert guidance for you and your family to help get through life's challenges

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.

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.

Respect and Inclusion

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.

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