Advisor Fixed Plant - Concentrator Maintenance

RioTinto; Labrador City; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

RioTinto is seeking an 'Advisor - Fixed Plant' for its Concentrator Maintenance team. This role involves overseeing maintenance operations, ensuring safety compliance, and optimizing maintenance costs. Candidates must have a strong technical background, with a minimum of ten years of relevant experience in iron ore production facilities.

Benefits

Career development & education assistance

Health and medical programs

Attractive share ownership plan

Leave for all of life’s reasons

Qualifications

• Minimum of ten years relevant work experience in iron ore production plant operations.
• At least five years’ experience in maintenance of production facilities.
• Sound knowledge of suppliers of material and services.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the development and execution of maintenance plans.
• Oversee maintenance measures and ensure adherence to quality and safety.
• Lead problem identification and recommend solutions in equipment and systems.

Skills

Technical troubleshooting

Leadership

Project Management

Communication

Safety compliance

Understanding of iron ore plant processes

Education

Mechanical trades discipline in Industrial Mechanic/Welding/Pipefitting

Job description

Advisor Fixed Plant - Concentrator Maintenance

• Contribute to the success of Rio Tinto by applying your technical and professional expertise

• Our culture is inclusive, exciting and performance-driven

• Exciting opportunity to apply and increase skills in a stimulating environment - Labrador City, NL

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for anAdvisor – Fixed Plantfor our Concentrator Maintenance team to provide support to the area and maintenance supervisors with daily work execution including parts supply, technical information, data entry and supporting defect elimination initiatives.

This role will ensure delays related to parts or the availability of information (procedures or instructions) are minimized, and unused parts or consumable spares are managed daily. This will allow the supervisors to spend valuable time monitoring the work execution from the floor level, addressing safety related issues and productivity inhibitors.

We are an open, connected international team of technical specialists using some of the most exciting data and tools on the planet. We are the world leader in automation and smart mining.

We have technical development programmes that are industry-leading and recognize the unique nature of your role. These provide opportunities to grow your career through a dedicated technical path while being rewarded for your unique skills.

Reporting to the Superintendent, Concentrator Maintenance and working in a challenging and exciting environment, you will be:

• Participate in the development and articulation of the annual maintenance plans for Concentrator

• Over-seeing of maintenance measures in mechanical maintenance division and ensuring adherence to quality and safety parameters

• Adherence to effective utilization of maintenance budget

• Advise on minimization of maintenance cost and optimize equipment life cycle cost

• Assist in planning of optimum resource requirements for mechanical maintenance- manpower, materials and contractors

• Lead equipment or system problem identification and recommends solutions

• Oversee the training and developments of other employees in plant maintenance operations, while they are performing preventive maintenance and routine equipment service activities

• Ensure compliance with procedures relating to auditing, documentation and record keeping of equipment history

• Advise on all short-, medium- and long-term maintenance activities with maintenance planning department

• Demonstrate a high level of leadership in all planned and unplanned shut down maintenance activities including all minor and major overhauls

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• Minimum of ten (10) years relevant work experience in the same or similar fields of iron ore production plant operations

• At least five (5) years’ experience in maintenance of production facilities

• Mechanical trades discipline in Industrial Mechanic/Welding/Pipefitting or relevant professional qualification is an added advantage.

• Proficient understanding of working history of equipment

• Technical troubleshooting

• Sound knowledge of iron ore plant processes

• In-depth knowledge of safety requirements and environmental aspects

• Good Knowledge of suppliers of material and services

• Excellent Leadership Skills and

• Good Project Management skill set

• Good communication skills – ability to speak, read and write fluently in English

• We actively encourage applications from women and Indigenous Peoples for this opportunity

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

• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions

• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program

• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical programs, pension and savings plans

• Attractive share ownership plan

• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

• Exclusive employee discounts

Where you’ll be working

We are a leading North American producer and exporter of premium iron ore pellets and high-grade concentrate with average iron grades greater than 66%. With a team of over 2,700 employees, IOC is committed to providing value and continuity for our customers, employees, communities and shareholders through our unique mine to port approach, taking advantage of our full integration and wholly owned infrastructure to deliver our high-quality concentrate and pellets to our customers across the globe.

IOC’s operations include a mine with five operational pits, a concentrator and a pelletizing plant located near Labrador City in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. We also operate a wholly-owned 418 km railway, the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway.

Working at Rio Tinto also means choosing to be part of a company recognized one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers in 2025 for the sixth consecutive year (for more information, click here:Rio Tinto Top Employer 2025) and one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers for Young People (for more information, click here:Rio Tinto Top Employer for young people

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.

Every Voice Matters
At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA2 community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

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.

À propos de Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto est un chef de file mondial du secteur des sociétés minières et des matériaux. Nous sommes établis dans 35 pays où nous produisons du minerai de fer, du cuivre, de l’aluminium, des minéraux critiques et d’autres matériaux nécessaires à la transition énergétique mondiale et à la prospérité des personnes, des communautés et des nations.

Nous exerçons nos activités depuis 150 ans, en nous appuyant sur les connaissances accumulées au fil des générations et sur les différents continents. Notre mission – trouver de meilleures façons de fournir les matériaux dont le monde a besoin – nous guide dans notre quête d’innovation et d’amélioration continue, dans le but de fabriquer des produits à faibles émissions et répondant aux bonnes normes environnementales, sociales et de gouvernance. Mais comme nous ne pouvons pas y arriver seuls, nous nous attachons à créer des partenariats nous permettant de résoudre des problèmes, de créer des situations mutuellement avantageuses et de saisir des occasions.

Chaque voix compte
Chez Rio Tinto, nous accueillons favorablement et encourageons les candidatures d’Autochtones, de femmes, de membres de la communauté LGBTQ2S+, de travailleurs âgés, de personnes handicapées et de représentants d’origines diverses.

Nous sommes déterminés à créer un milieu inclusif où les employés se sentent à l’aise d’être eux-mêmes. Nous souhaitons de plus que chacun ait l’impression que sa voix compte, que toutes les cultures sont respectées et que les points de vue, aussi variés soient-ils, sont non seulement bienvenus, mais également essentiels à notre succès. Nous nous traitons mutuellement avec équité et dignité, sans égard à la race, au genre, à la nationalité, à l’origine ethnique, à la religion, à l’âge, à l’orientation sexuelle ou à tout autre aspect distinctif.