• Job Description

  Req#: RITM12221201

  Kemano Power Station Supervisor (Maintenance & Operations)

  • Elevate your maintenance and leadership career with this unique opportunity at the Kemano Hydro Power Station.
  • Permanent, full-time position with a highly sought-after 7-on/7-off day shift schedule.
  • Enjoy the lifestyle in Kitimat, BC, combining the tranquility of a small community with an unrivaled love for the great outdoors.

  About the role

  Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

  We are looking for a Supervisor to lead and develop a high-performing team while fostering a strong safety culture and enhancing capabilities at the Kemano Power Station. This role involves overseeing Operators, Maintainers (unionized), and contractors, with responsibility for managing all area resources. The Supervisor's primary focus is on ensuring the safe, efficient, and sustainable maintenance and operation of Power Station equipment and facilities.

  This role is based at the Kemano camp, where you will stay during your 7-on/7-off rotation (Friday to Friday). Kemano is situated about 80 km from Kitimat, with employees transported by boat at the beginning and end of each rotation. Please note that transportation to Kemano camp is provided exclusively from Kitimat, so a relocation program is available if applicable.

  This role is a great opportunity for a safety-oriented and engaging leader to drive and optimize power generation and maintenance program performance in a unique and highly desirable work environment.

  Leading on the frontline is one of the most important jobs in our business and comes with a huge amount of responsibility. We need you to motivate, inspire and keep your people safe and well. With signature leadership training programmes, growing and developing is more than an opportunity – it is something we actively plan and make happen. Every day our leaders grow, while our rosters are designed to help you live the lifestyle that is right for you and your family.

  Reporting to the Kemano Superintendent, you will be:

  • Monitoring working practices and adherence to safety procedures to ensure safety of employees. Complying with Rio Tinto and statutory safety requirements
  • Leading with a genuine care for people, and providing appropriate feedback and coaching to team members
  • Developing and promoting a positive employee relations environment within the department, ensuring that work is completed in accordance with the Collective Bargaining Agreement
  • Supervising, coordinating, and monitoring the execution of scheduled work plans and unplanned emergency and breakdown work, determining the sequence based on business priority and availability of equipment and workforce
  • Communicating and coordinating with peers the appropriate operating conditions, expectations, and targets for shift change over
  • Planning, allocation of resources, and execution of multidisciplinary maintenance shutdowns (i.e., major equipment modification and major generator overhaul, etc.)
  • Maintaining a continuous improvement focus by recommending improvements to maintenance practices and productivity
  • Collaborating with stakeholders to resolve issues
  • Preparing and entering data into various information systems (i.e. work order history, employee pay details, monthly reports, discipline, etc.)
  • Planning departmental work and collaborating with vendors and procurement to acquire the necessary materials

  What you’ll bring

  • A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
  • Tertiary education in a related field; Technologist Diploma and/or an Interprovincial Red Seal Interprovincial trade qualification and/or Bachelor’s degree
  • A minimum of a valid Class 7 Provincial driver’s license
  • At least 5 years of leadership experience in an industrial setting: mining, processing, manufacturing, utilities, or related, with experience leading in a unionized environment
  • Effective leadership skills: the ability to set direction, prioritize and achieve objectives, actively listen, and engage and motivate your team members
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.)
  • Experience leading the execution of multidisciplinary shutdowns
  • Clear, concise, and tactful communication
  • A genuine care for people and their well-being

  It will also be beneficial if you have:

  • Experience in high voltage and/or hydro power

  What we offer

  Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.

  The base salary range for this role is $98,560 - $147,840 CAD in addition to allowances, bonus, equity, health or retirement benefits, and any other discretionary benefits offered at Rio Tinto. Our base salary ranges are based on role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by the skills, experience, and impact you bring to the role. Our talent acquisition partners can share more during the hiring process.

  At Rio Tinto, we offer a competitive reward package that reflects the value that each person brings to our business. As part of our pay philosophy, we believe equity represents fairness, and is rooted in our values and aligns with what we stand for.

  • A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
  • Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
  • Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
  • Exclusive employee discounts
  • Domestic relocation program

  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

  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.

  Applications close on Thursday the 29th of August 2024 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)

• About the company

  Rio Tinto Group is an Anglo-Australian multinational and the world's second largest metals and mining corporation, behind BHP, producing iron ore, copper, diamonds, gold and uranium.

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