Parts Coordinator – Operational Services

• Opportunity to assist in establishing maintenance best practice
• Interface with a diversity of teams and individuals across the entire Kennecott business
• Challenging role requiring creativity and critical problem solving
• Role based in Salt Lake City UT

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We are looking for a Parts Coordinator– Operational Services to reduce the turnaround time of mobile equipment while it is in the shop for scheduled or unscheduled services. The coordinator will contact vendors for parts, prices and availability, and order parts from the vendors from information received including creating notifications/work orders. As parts arrive the coordinator will help delivery driver unload parts from the delivery truck and verify the parts are the correct ones. The coordinator will “kit” the parts for upcoming scheduled work and stage parts for future scheduled work. The role will have accountability for the Mine, Concentrator, Tailings, Smelter, Refinery and General Plant Facilities.

In addition to paying competitively and providing great benefits packages, we want you to live the lifestyle that is right for you and your family. And because of our size and scale, there are many opportunities to learn, grow and do more than you ever thought possible.
Every hour of every shift, your safety and well-being are our number one priority. We do the work only if it is safe, and we invest to make sure every member of the team has the quality tools they need to do their job.

Reporting to the Operational Services – Supervisor Mobile Maintenance and working in a diverse team within Rio Tinto, you will be:

• Monitors working practices and adherence to safety procedures to ensure safety of employees working in the area
• Perform continuous improvement on assets to maximize the life-cycle of our assets.
• Hot shot parts needed to finish schedule and break in work
• Process returns and cores
• Keep inventory of stock parts
• Gather information on parts for material numbers and to build BOM’s
• Create material numbers
• Update material numbers
• Update BOM’s
• Follow up with PO’s
• Ensure all invoices are received through the DC
• Maintain/build vendor contact relationships
• Use variety of vendors to maximize source of supply
• Attend all planning meetings
• Support planners with parts availability for scheduling
• Process invoices for offsite services
• Work with vendors ensuring we are using the appropriate parts
• Look for “improvement” parts (heavy duty)
• Fill in for KOS supervisor when needed
• Extensive stakeholder engagement and management skills.
• Understand reliability principles and life cycle.

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• A High school diploma or GED
• 3+ year of experience in parts ordering for mobile equipment within a maintenance or manufacturing or a related field
• 2+ year of prior leadership experience or leading contractors and vendors
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organization
• Strong computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Prior experience working in a Collective Bargaining Agreement environment
• Bachelor’s degree

What we offer

Be recognized 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
• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees
• Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions
• Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs and pension plan
• Well-being benefits
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Ongoing individual well-being support for you and your family for personal and professional matter
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with
a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers – generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress.

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe.
Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

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, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

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

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be 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.