Mechanical Planner

Rio Tinto; Bessemer City (NC); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k matching

Parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

Rio Tinto in North Carolina seeks a Mechanical Planner to manage work requests, control SAP backlog, plan work orders, procure materials, and schedule maintenance to maximize uptime and minimize costs.

Reporting to the Maintenance & Reliability Manager, you will develop schedules, utilize design data to obtain equipment details, and prioritize requests while ensuring safety and compliance across operations.

Qualifications

• Five years of plant maintenance experience in chemical processing or equivalent.
• Knowledge of SAP MM/PM modules and MS Office tools.
• Experience with maintenance or project planning tasks.

Responsibilities

• Drive safety initiatives and ensure MOC processes are completed.
• Develop and manage maintenance schedules and resource plans.
• Plan and prioritize maintenance work execution and closeout.
• Create maintenance strategies using SAP and equipment data.
• Support cost reduction, quality audits and cross-functional cost optimization.

Skills

Maintenance planning

SAP knowledge

Scheduling

Excel (MS Office)

Education

Associate degree (preferred)

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Office

Job description

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
  

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
  

We’re Finding Better Ways to provide 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 Mechanical Planner to manage work requests, control back log in SAP, plans work orders, procures materials, and prioritizes and schedules work to maximize process up-time and minimize material costs and contract services.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced technical leader to play a critical role in developing and maintaining comprehensive schedules, utilize design database to obtain equipment and evaluate incoming requests to determine priorities.

About The Role

Reporting to the Maintenance & Reliability Manager and working in a collaborative community, a challenging and exciting environment, you will

• Drive safety initiatives, audit Life Critical Procedures, and intervene to address unsafe acts and conditions.
• Ensure the Management of Change (MOC) processes were completed.
• Promote safe work practices and support adherence to company procedures and standards.
• Develop and manage maintenance schedules and resource plans by coordinating labor, equipment, materials, and forward-looking maintenance activities to support operational requirements.
• Plan and prioritize maintenance work execution by evaluating work requests, gathering scheduling inputs, coordinating with operations, and managing routine maintenance work orders through completion and closeout.
• Create maintenance strategies and technical plans utilizing SAP and equipment databases to develop maintenance programs aligned with plant procedures, engineering standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Support quality, cost reduction, and continuous improvement initiatives by participating in quality audits, representing the department in quality meetings, and contributing to cross-functional cost optimization efforts.
• Collaborate with operations and leadership teams to communicate maintenance priorities, resource requirements, production impacts, and key business activities to ensure safe and efficient plant performance.

About You

• High School diploma required, associate degree preferred
• A minimum of five years of chemical process maintenance experience with general knowledge of plant systems, processes and procedures.
• Knowledge of maintenance or project planning experience.
• Knowledge of the Materials Management and Production Planning modules in SAP as well as Excel and Word Processing software (Microsoft Office, including Access).

What we offer

• Be recognised 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.
• Competitive base salary is 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.

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

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. 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.