Specialist - Plant Controls

• Be part of the world's leading mining organization
• Commitment to a safe working environment.
• Work with diverse and challenging systems in an industrial setting - Salt Lake City

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for an Electrical Controls Specialist to help with the maintenance of the electrical and controls system at a large industrial facility. This role will be supporting the Rio Tinto Kennecott Concentrator Asset Management Team.

This role is a great opportunity for someone with exposure to industrial electrical and control systems to grow their experience at an exciting facility. As you are reporting to a Principal Electrical engineer, you will be:

• Promote and enable a Zero Harm culture through actions and accountability.
• Learning plant electrical and control systems, processes, and existing procedures, and monitoring data to provide low level assessments on asset health.
• Supporting the maintenance execution team in breakdowns during the day with the potential for some call-outs.
• Develop and perform the training of electricians and instrumentation technicians on relevant equipment, systems, and troubleshooting methods.
• Assist engineers with identifying root causes of electrical, automation, and instrumentation failures and implementing solutions to prevent the reoccurrence of issues.
• Supporting commissioning, projects, and fieldwork verifying electrical and controls.
• Providing technical support to projects, operation maintenance, and troubleshooting functions.
• Applying practical knowledge of processes and techniques to carry out engineering assignments relating to process control and optimization.
• Assisting engineers on larger, complex assignments or works independently on less complex assignments.
• Planning relevant safety requirements into all activities, tasks and projects based on assessed hazards, identified critical risks and mitigating actions.
• Implementing engineering standards for technical drawings, equipment, installation practices and workmanship for all Electrical and Instrumentation works.
• Ensuring site compliance with the electrical engineering standards and reviewing the standards on a regular basis.
• Support the Safe Production System Team in fostering interdepartmental collaboration and working towards industry best practices.

What you'll bring

• Experience working in industrial settings with comparable electrical, control, and instrumentation systems.
• High level of English Competency (both written and oral)
• A Bachelor's Degree in Engineering Technology, or equivalent related technical field experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience with computer system applications, including Word and Excel.
• A deep understanding of electrical system function and safe work procedures.
• Experience at an industrial facility.
• Experience with motor starter circuits and variable frequency drives.
• Experience troubleshooting industrial electrical, control, and instrumentation systems.
• Ability to understand control drawings including schematics, loop diagrams, ladder logic, and block diagrams.
• Autonomous, energetic, and collaborative
• It will also be beneficial if you have:
• Knowledge of Allen Bradley PLC and Emerson DeltaV DCS systems
• Knowledge of High Voltage Distribution Systems up to 13.8kV

What we offer

We are committed to providing our employees witha 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

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 and meet opportunities.

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, Veterans and active-duty armed forces, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

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We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable being themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome - they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, or anything else that makes us different.