Coordinator - Underground Mobile Maintenance

About the job

• Join Kennecott Underground at an exciting time for American copper, with new mobile fleets arriving over the next 1–2 years and the opportunity to help support their safe, reliable performance.
• Enjoy a residential role in the Salt Lake City area, giving you the opportunity to live close to a world-class, fully integrated copper operation, without a routine travel schedule.
• Be rewarded with a competitive salary and annual incentive bonus, comprehensive health programs, generous retirement benefits, share ownership, paid time off and parental leave.

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 Coordinator-Underground Mobile Maintenance to support the safe, efficient and reliable performance of mobile assets across Kennecott Underground. Coordinating equipment, people and daily field activities, you will have a direct impact on equipment availability and production performance. With new mobile fleets arriving over the next 1–2 years, this is an opportunity to bring your mobile maintenance experience, technical capability and leadership skills to a role that is critical to the health and safety of our people and equipment.

Reporting to the Superintendent – Underground Mobile Maintenance and working collaboratively with operational and functional teams, you will be responsible for:

• Championing safe work by promoting safety standards and ensuring maintenance activities meet MSHA regulations and site requirements.
• Contributing to hazard assessments, risk reviews and incident investigations to strengthen safe maintenance practices.
• Coordinating planned and unplanned maintenance for underground mobile equipment to support safe, reliable performance.
• Ensuring work orders are effectively planned, assigned and completed to support equipment availability.
• Partnering with Operations to balance maintenance priorities with production requirements and minimise equipment downtime.
• Supporting maintenance material forecasting and critical spare parts planning for the underground mobile fleet.
• Working with the distribution centre, procurement and OEM teams to support parts availability during equipment breakdowns.
• Providing practical technical guidance to troubleshoot and resolve mobile equipment issues.
• Coordinating mobile equipment, people and daily field activities to support safe, efficient and reliable underground operations.

About you

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
• Demonstrated experience leading hourly employees and contractor workforces.
• Hands-on experience working with mobile equipment and an understanding of underground mobile equipment.
• The ability to lead through influence, building alignment and achieving outcomes with others.
• Practical knowledge of maintenance safety, compliance and MSHA requirements.
• Experience coordinating planned and unplanned maintenance activities in an operational environment.
• Strong maintenance coordination skills, with the ability to prioritise work while balancing equipment and production needs.
• Experience supporting maintenance materials and critical spare parts requirements and working with supply and OEM teams.
• Strong technical troubleshooting capability, combined with advanced English-language skills.

What we offer

• 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; Generous 401k matching program.
• Attractive share ownership plan.
• Comprehensive leave policies which cover all the moments that matter in life: PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave.
• A generous parental leave policy, which ensures you’re 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.

Rio Tinto participates in E- Verify to confirm work authorization. Please visit http://www.ucis.gov/ for more information.