Planner, Concentrator Maintenance

Build your career in asset planning and scheduling while developing hands-on experience with SAP, maintenance forecasting, budgeting and continuous improvement.

Enjoy a competitive base salary, annual incentive bonus, generous retirement and 401k programs, share ownership plan, and comprehensive family-friendly health benefits.

Support a world-class operation located just outside Salt Lake City, with comprehensive paid time off, paid holidays and parental leave to help you make time for the moments that matter.

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 know that great technical capability comes in many forms, and we’re focused on building teams that reflect the communities we operate in and support each other to do their best work.

We’re Finding Better Ways to provide the 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 Maintenance Planner/Scheduler to support the planning, scheduling and execution of maintenance activities. In this role, you will help establish maintenance priorities, develop planned and preventative maintenance schedules, and ensure labour, materials and equipment are effectively planned for execution. You will use 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 collaboratively with operational and functional teams, you will support safe, efficient maintenance delivery and ongoing improvement of work management practices.

Reporting to the Superintendent, Asset Planning and Projects you will be responsible for:

Identifying and validating notifications and work requests to consolidate maintenance requirements.

Planning maintenance work so tasks can be performed safely, efficiently, and effectively in support of maintenance strategies.

Providing asset scheduling inputs to optimise cost and efficiency.

Preparing maintenance activities by planning and scheduling labour, materials, and equipment required for execution.

Completing post-work execution tasks and maintenance administration to support ongoing CMMS data and system improvement.

Collecting and collating work management data to support reviews and identify improvement actions.

Governing maintenance scheduling to maintain compliance with safety, environmental, and statutory requirements.

Creating and maintaining maintenance plans, task lists, job instructions, and work procedures within SAP.Supporting the development and management of maintenance budgets through Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) principles.

Contributing to forecasting, budgeting, and cost tracking for maintenance and major maintenance activities.

About youA 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 with the ability to interpret maintenance and asset performance data.

Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and organisational skills.

A trade qualification, technical qualification, or degree in Engineering, Asset Management, or a related discipline is helpful.

Experience supporting shutdowns, major maintenance campaigns, or reliability improvement programmes…