Rio Tinto Hiring Event! We are hiring multiple positions for our Operation in Kitimat, BC

We’re looking to fill multiple trades, professional, and supervisory positions for our Aluminum Smelter and Power Operation in Kitimat, BC. In Kitimat, you’ll be able to work alongside a friendly and safety-focused team while enjoying a lifestyle that offers incredible outdoor adventure and family-oriented amenities. Relocation assistance program is provided. Please note that fly-in-fly-out options are not available.

Register now for our in-person hiring event, where you’ll have the opportunity to network with our team.

Location: Leduc, Alberta (Hotel Conference Centre TBC in Nisku Industrial Business Park area)

Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Time: Will be confirmed directly with registrants

How to register: Please submit an application to this posting by February 24, 2023. Advanced applicants will be contacted directly to coordinate next steps.

What to Expect at the Event

• Learn about our site, the available positions, and the Kitimat community
• A presentation about employee benefits by Human Resources
• On-the-spot interviews with operational leaders
• An opportunity to ask questions

What Positions are we Hiring?

• Millwrights
• Operations Supervisors
• Maintenance Supervisors
• Mechanical Engineers

Qualifications needed

We are looking for safety-oriented and collaborative individuals to join our team. In addition to those essentials, please review the qualifications below for each role type.

Millwright

• Interprovincial or Journeyperson Millwright/Industrial Mechanic qualification.
  • Applicants who do not have the Interprovincial qualification, but are eligible to write the exam, will need to write the exam during their hiring process.
• Valid full provincial driver’s license
• Willing to work shift schedules, including rotating 12-hour shifts (rosters include both days, nights, and weekends)

Engineers

• Mechanical Engineering Degree
• Registration or eligibility for immediate registration as a Professional Engineer or Engineer-in-Training with EGBC
• Troubleshooting experience within an industrial maintenance setting
• Willing to work Monday to Friday work schedule

Supervisors

• A minimum of a High School Diploma or equivalency
• Valid full provincial driver’s license
• Supervisory experience in a related setting
• Effective leadership skills: the ability to set direction, prioritize and achieve objectives, actively listen, and engage and motivate your team members
• Willing to work shift schedules, including rotating 12-hour shifts (rosters include both days, nights, and weekends)
• For Maintenance Supervisor positions, you will also need a relevant Engineering Degree, and/or Trade qualification, and/or Technologist Diploma

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 salaries or hourly rate reflective of your skills and experience
• 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
• Domestic relocation assistance

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

Rio Tinto’s BC Works is a part of the Atlantic Operations of the Aluminium product group and has been operating in British Columbia for over 65 years. With industry leading new technology and four generations of employee expertise, as well as our hydropower facility at Kemano and the Nechako Reservoir, the Kitimat smelter is one of the world’s most competitive aluminium smelters, producing aluminium with one of the lowest carbon footprints in the industry.

Rio Tinto is proud to operate in BC alongside our 1,000 employees, partners, community stakeholders and First Nations, and we look forward to the next 60 years.

To learn more about our Aluminium Operations, check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=25&v=CTp1jkRKeBI

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.

EVENT REGISTRATION CLOSES: MARCH 3, 2023

(Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)