Planner, Concentrator Maintenance
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 27, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 16, 2026. Rio Tinto scores A on the Alion truth index.
- 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 you
- A 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 is helpful.
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.