- Coordinate safe, reliable maintenance activities that help keep Concentrator equipment available and operating effectively.
- Grow your planning and leadership capability while partnering with maintenance planners, execution teams and operational stakeholders.
- Build your career in the outdoor and family-oriented community of Labrador City, NL; relocation assistance may be provided where applicable.
At Rio Tinto IOC, we are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming workplace where everyone feels safe, respected, and able to succeed. We actively encourage applications from women, Indigenous Peoples, and people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
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 Coordinator Plant Maintenance to lead Maintenance Supervisors and asset management professionals in delivering and executing the asset maintenance plan for Concentrator Maintenance. In this role, you will support and deploy effective asset management plans and objectives that help maximize asset value through safe, reliable operations, lifecycle management, modelling and forecasting. You will allocate work, supervise team activities and coordinate planned, unplanned and shutdown maintenance to support sustainable physical assets and business results.
This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys leading in a safety-critical industrial environment and wants to strengthen asset management, maintenance execution and people leadership capability.
Enjoy the outdoors year-round, with camping, fishing, hunting, hiking and boating throughout the summer and fall. Winter activities include groomed snowmobile and snowshoeing trails, as well as alpine and cross-country skiing, often beneath the Northern Lights.
Please note: The accountabilities for this role are currently under review. Fly-in-fly-out arrangements are not available. Relocation assistance is provided if applicable.
What you’ll be doing
Reporting to the Superintendent and working with the execution team within Concentrator Maintenance, you will:
- Lead Maintenance Supervisors and asset management professionals to deliver and execute maintenance plans.
- Deploy asset management plans and objectives that support safe people outcomes, sustainable physical assets and reliable plant performance.
- Allocate work, supervise team activities and remain accountable for the results of routine maintenance support and production operations.
- Coordinate scheduled maintenance, unplanned emergency work, equipment breakdowns and shutdown activities based on risk, priority and resource capacity.
- Maximize asset value through operational asset management, lifecycle planning, modelling, forecasting and informed maintenance decisions.
- Coordinate equipment downtime, parts, materials, contractors and resources with Maintenance Planners, maintenance teams and the Operations Centre.
- Solve operational and maintenance problems using established practices and precedents, while adapting plans to changing business needs.
- Train team members, support capability development and provide input to employee performance evaluations.
About you
We’re looking for someone whose experience aligns with the key requirements below. You do not need to meet every “helpful for success” item to apply; if you bring relevant experience and are excited by the opportunity, we encourage you to submit an application.
Required for Success
- A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
- Skills and Capabilities: Demonstrated ability to lead supervisors or team leaders, allocate work, supervise activities and deliver team results in a safety-critical industrial environment.
- Experience: Asset management or maintenance operations experience supporting asset maintenance plans, lifecycle management and reliable physical asset performance.
- Experience: Leadership experience training team members, solving problems using established practices and providing input to employee performance evaluations.
- Qualifications: Newfoundland and Labrador Grade 12 or equivalent experience, plus a valid Class 5 driver’s licence.
- Systems: Experience using SAP for maintenance planning, scheduling or work execution.
Helpful for Success
- A post-secondary qualification in a trade, technical, engineering, maintenance, operations or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with modelling, forecasting or other methods used to maximize value across the asset lifecycle.
- Experience working in a unionized environment.
To be considered for this opportunity, candidates must be legally authorized to work in Canada. Please note that Rio Tinto is unable to provide employment authorization sponsorship or support work permit applications for this position at this time.
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 (QNS&L), that links our Labrador operations to Company-owned port facilities in Sept-Iles.
Working at Rio Tinto also means choosing to be part of a company recognized one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers in 2026 and one of Canada’s Top Employers for Young People in 2025.
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.
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.
Respect and Inclusion
Chez Rio Tinto, nous accueillons favorablement et encourageons les candidatures d’Autochtones, de femmes, de membres de la communauté LGBTQ+, 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.
