What are the responsibilities and job description for the Maintenance Superintendent position at Rio Tinto?
Maintenance Superintendent
- Develop a program for the management of physical assets for future underground mining operations
- Competitive salary and benefits
- Work in a deep underground project located near Superior, Arizona
About the role
We are looking for a Maintenance Superintendent responsible for the Resolution Copper Operations and Maintenance Group. This role is responsible for the safe maintenance and operation of existing physical assets, consisting of electrical infrastructure, hoisting and water treatment plants, ventilation, cooling and dewatering systems.
Reporting to Manager – Operation & Maintenance and working in a challenging and exciting environment, you will :
About you
To succeed in this role, you will have :
It will also be beneficial if you have :
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 :
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 will be working
Once in operation, Resolution Copper has the potential to supply nearly 25% of US copper demand and create several thousand direct and indirect jobs in the Pioneer Mining District of Arizona, with an economic value estimated at several billion dollars over the mine life.
The project will rely on a block caving technique to extract the deposit that lies more than 2,000 meters below the surface. This method uses gravity to remove the ore and is the most viable way to recover the resource.
In 2019, the project achieved a significant milestone – issuance of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) by the US Forest Service (USFS). In anticipation of the Final EIS in 2020, Resolution Copper continues permitting and community engagement activities, reclamation of the historic Magma Mine site, shaft and underground development studies, and advancing data collection to further orebody knowledge.
