Senior Inspector - Asset Integrity

Senior Inspector

• Asset Integrity

• Competitive salary and benefits

• Exposure to a wide variety of equipment and technologies

• Work for a global company with broad opportunities

• Salt Lake City

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Senior Inspector Asset Integrity to join our Asset Integrity team. You will be responsible for property-wide asset integrity program inspections, development, implementation, and sustainability of critical asset maintenance coordination, national standard condition monitoring, and reporting with Rio Tinto Kennecott and Rio Tinto Physical Assets Management standards. You will also provide key-user support to the Sites in their asset maintenance, repairs and purchasing.

We have technical development programs 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 Manager Asset Integrity, and working in a collaborative community, you will be:

• Committed to the health and safety of all. Actively engaged in safety programs and initiatives.

• Prioritize tasks ensuring that the critical work required for asset management is evaluated, managed, and delivered appropriately.

• Manage and supervise trade employees in condition-monitoring maintenance activities

• Manage contractor work by following the RTKC contractor management process for the completion of inspections and repairs of assets

• Participate in the life cycle management plan for critical equipment, which correlates with SAP needs.

• Be a key driver for up-to-date national standards training and introductions of new condition monitoring technology and NDE methods.

• Contributes to defect component review and reference against data analysis. Able to use and update (red-line) P&ID's, PFD's, and SWI's.

• Prepares asset condition and performance information to support maintenance decisions.

• Documentation and storage of inspection certificates, thickness measurements, and other required documents

• Work closely with Asset Management engineers, planners, and site maintenance to schedule and evaluate condition-monitoring activities and inspections with the end goal that asset integrity improvement work complies with all applicable Federal, State, and Rio Tinto Kennecott Safety/Environmental standards and Business Policies.

What you'll bring

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• Specialist ability: To understand and communicate to site peers best asset management practice and the application of national standards within this context.

• Preferred one year RTKC operating Site experience in an asset management, projects management, or maintenance technical team. Understanding of the design and application of national, RTKC health and safety, and RTBS standards.

• One year of related asset integrity industry experience. Proven ability to improve area performance through project analysis, reliability, and asset improvement initiatives.

• Three years of experience in the fabrication or repair of new or existing assets is required.

• Two years of experience in a leadership/supervisor over a project or crew.

• Certified in the three major API certifications of 510,570, and 653.

• Willing to gain additional certification in API, ASME, or NBIC standards.

• Experience in reliability techniques is a requirement.

• Experience developing maintenance tactics is a requirement.

• Experience using various condition monitoring (PdM) techniques required.

• API, ASME, NBIC codes. Certified in three or more condition monitoring methods/NDE (i.e. UT, PT, VT, MT, RT, etc.)

What we offer

We are committed to providing our employees with a generous benefits package. Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking, your hard work, and go home knowing you've helped the world progress, we provide:

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment

• Advantageous salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees

• 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

• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program, which allows you to purchase Rio Tinto Company shares.

• Comprehensive leave policies which cover all moments that matter in life: PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave.

• A favorable child-caregiver leave program (Up to 100% salary top-up)

• Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing

• Ongoing Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family; to help in addressing educational opportunities, addiction treatment, depression, stress, domestic issues, financial management, and legal concerns.

• Our team and industry experts are here to support and work with you to explore your learning potential and career goals

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 and meet opportunities.

Where you'll be working

Our Kennecott mine is a world-class, fully integrated copper mining operation, including a concentrator, smelter and refinery, located just outside Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States. We produce copper, precious metals including gold and silver, molybdenum and sulfuric acid. Kennecott has been mining and processing minerals from the rich ore body of the Bingham Canyon Mine since 1903, and is one of the top producing mines in the world, comprising approximately 11 percent of U.S. annual copper production.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQ+ community, mature workers, Veterans and active-duty armed forces, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

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We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable being 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.