Operator

Operator (multiple opportunities)

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Grow your career in a global mining organization
• Entry point to permanent employment as an Operator
• Based in Kitimat, BC

About the role

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

We are looking for multiple Operators to join the BC Works team. As an Operator, you are highly motivated to work safely and efficiently, adapt to changing priorities, and interact and collaborate well with others.

This role is a great opportunity for enthusiastic and safety-oriented individuals to grow their careers in a large-scale industrial environment. All Operators join the business as temporary employees, who are scheduled based on operational needs. This is the first step on the pathway to permanent employment as an Operator, which will typically take about two to three years to achieve based on the seniority job posting process. For individuals with a Red Seal trade qualification(s), there may be opportunities for temporary assignments in trades positions across the site as they become available. The “What We Offer” section below provides more details about entitlement to benefits.

Reporting to the Operations Supervisor, and working within our Smelter Operations & Services teams, you will be:

• Working safely in accordance with Rio Tinto safety standards – actively engaging in safety initiatives promoting our “Zero harm” safety culture
• Keeping your work area safe, clean, and well maintained. Taking timely action to correct unsafe work conditions in your work area
• Responsible to perform labour tasks, operation, and control of equipment, in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures, to ensure production targets are achieved safely and efficiently
• Communicate all safety concerns, incidents, and process deficiencies to the supervisors
• Providing feedback to supervisors regarding equipment performance
• Maintaining a continuous improvement focus by developing and participating in implementation of appropriate solutions to eliminate the issues/problems identified in the work area
• Working effectively as an individual and within a team and communicating respectfully to all team members and stakeholders

Please note: Fly-in-fly-out arrangements are not available for this location. Relocation assistance is not provided.

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• A high school diploma or equivalent
• Minimum of a Class 7 Provincial Driver’s License (“N”)
• A minimum of 1-year prior work experience in an industrial and/or manufacturing and/or construction setting
• Ability to work rotating 12-hour shifts (rosters include both days, nights, weekends, etc.) and adapt to changing schedules
• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with all team members
• A commitment to Rio Tinto values: Care, Curiosity, and Courage

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
• Personal protective clothing and boots are provided
• Career development opportunities
• Hourly wage of $38.65
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Exclusive employee discounts

After 1500 working hours or permanent placement (whichever comes sooner), you will be entitled to:

• Access to top-tier family-friendly health and medical programs, pension and savings plans
• Defined benefit pension plan (CAAT)
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Opportunity to take sabbatical leaves

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.

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