Smelter Operator

Smelter Operator

• Join a world leader in mining & processing offering outstanding personal development & career opportunities
• Outside industry experience? Add diversity to our team!
• Position is based in Salt Lake City, Utah

About the role

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

We are looking to fill multiple positions with people who are highly motivated to work in our Hot Metals department at the Rio Tinto Kennecott Utah Copper Smelter. Mining experience is not essential, we provide the training required.

This role is a great opportunity to work in an interesting field with a relatively small, close group of employees with an attractive lifestyle roster which consists of rotating 12-hour shifts.

In addition to paying competitively and providing great benefits packages, there are many opportunities to learn, grow and do more than you thought possible.

Every hour of every shift, your safety and wellbeing is our number one priority. We do the work only if it is safe, and we invest to make sure every member of the team has the quality equipment they need to do their job.

Reporting to the Shift Supervisor, you will be trained to:

• Perform operating duties in the smelting process while working around hot furnaces and wearing proper PPE including respirators
• Work safely following our standard operating process’
• Actively care for the safety of others and self

Training

All new employees participate in an 8-week onboarding program that combines both classroom and in-field training that focuses on safety and technical training to ensure you have all the skills required to safely perform your responsibilities.

What you’ll Bring

To be successfully considered for this role, you will:

• Show commitment to our values of Safety, Teamwork, Respect, Integrity and Excellence
• Have a High school or GED diploma
• Have valid driver’s license
• Ability to work wearing respirators all day
• Minimum 21 years of age to align with Rio Tinto Safety Standards for this role
• Safety mindset in every task

We welcome transferable skills from industries such as:

• Processing
• Oil/gas
• Manufacturing
• Mining
• Construction
• Agriculture
• Hospitality
• Hospitals, health care
• Airlines, other transportation
• Warehousing & logistics

Where you will be working

Rio Tinto Kennecott is a fully integrated mining operation located just outside Salt Lake City, Utah, US. Kennecott is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto. For more than 110 years, Kennecott has been mining and processing minerals from the rich orebody of the Bingham Canyon Mine. Kennecott is a strong economic driver and strives to be a valuable community partner through strategic partnerships, charitable giving and sustainable development practices.

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
• Access to top-tier family-friendly health programs including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life insurance coverage, and various voluntary benefits.  
• 401(k) matching program (company matched .50 per dollar up to 6% of your base pay)  
• 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)  
• 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. 
• Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing. 

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 aluminum – 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

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, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

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