Millwright (Multiple Opportunities) Jobs

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Millwright (Industrial Mechanic) – Multiple opportunities

• Based in Kitimat, BC – a stunning coastal community with many year-round activities
• Working at Rio Tinto also means choosing to be part of a company designated as one of Canada's Top 100 Employers in 2023 for a 4th consecutive year. For more information, click here https //www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn li activity 6999447814468497408
• Be part of a team that is safety driven and inclusive
• Permanent, full-time, role with great compensation of $55.698/hr., plus pension and benefits

About The Role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for multiple Millwrights to join the BC Works Aluminum Smelter & Services Maintenance teams and provide construction, installation, relocation, repair, and preventative maintenance on machinery, equipment, and facilities. Specific work schedule can vary based on the department, but typically can include a rotating roster with 12-hour shifts, nights, and weekends.

In addition to competitive pay and a great benefits package, we want you to enjoy the lifestyle that is right for you and your family. And because of our size and scale, there are many opportunities to learn, grow and do more than you ever thought possible. Every hour of every shift, your safety and wellbeing are our priority. We do the work only if it is safe, and we invest to ensure everybody has the tools they need to do their job.

Reporting to the Maintenance Supervisor, and working within our Smelter Operations & Services Maintenance teams, your responsibilities will include

• Working effectively and communicating respectfully
• Using power and hand equipment, performing varied types of rigging, often at heights which require climbing and the use of safety equipment i.e., harness, lanyard, personnel-lifts, scissor-lifts
• Diagnosing and repairing different types of rotating and conveying equipment, including pumps, elevators, screw conveyors, belting, material handling, and centrifuges and hydro generators
• Keeping your work area safe, clean, and well maintained. Taking timely action to correct unsafe work conditions
• Maintaining a continuous improvement focus by developing and participating in the implementation of solutions for the work area
• Coordinating Millwrights functions with overall plant operations, preparing parts lists and ordering and retrieving parts as needed
• Working safely in accordance with Rio Tinto standards – actively engaging in our “Zero harm” safety culture

What You’ll Bring

• A commitment to everyone’s safety
• Willingness to work shift schedules, including rotating 12-hour shifts (rosters include both days, nights, and weekends)
• Commitment to Rio Tinto values Care, Curiosity, and Courage
• Experience repairing industrial equipment
• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively
• High school diploma or GED
• Interprovincial Red Seal Millwright certificate of qualification
• Ability to read blueprints and drawings
• Mechanical aptitude and skills in rigging, fabricating, repairing equipment and welding. Rigging equipment such as wire rope, chokers, synthetic slings, cable clamps, hooks, shackles, and other rigging apparatus
• Capacity to give accurate crane signals, calculate loads and rig correctly (training is provided)
• A valid driver’s license (minimum of B.C. Class 7)

What We Offer

Be recognized for your contributions, your way of thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’re helping the world progress.

• Career development and education assistance to further your technical and leadership ambitions
• A work environment where safety is always the priority
• Access to family-friendly health and medical programs
• Defined benefit pension plan
• Optional sabbatical program
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts
• Domestic relocation assistance
• A competitive hourly rate of $55.698

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’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 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 British Columbia 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 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 are comfortable to be themselves. We want our voices heard, and all cultures respected. We believe a variety of perspectives is not only welcome – it is 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 until all roles are filled