Electrical Controls Specialist

• Be part of the world’s leading mining organization
• Commitment to a safe working environment.
• Work with diverse and challenging systems in an industrial setting – Salt Lake City

About the role

We are looking for an Electrical Controls Specialist to help with the maintenance of the electrical and controls system at a large industrial facility. This role will be supporting the Rio Tinto Kennecott Concentrator Asset Management Team.

This role is a great opportunity for someone with exposure to industrial electrical and control systems to grow their experience at an exciting facility. As you are reporting to a Senior Electrical engineer, you will be:

• Promote and enable a Zero Harm culture through actions and accountability.
• Troubleshooting and testing instrumentation at the facility.
• Supporting the maintenance execution team in breakdowns during the day with the potential for some call-outs.
• Develop and perform the training of electricians and instrumentation technicians on relevant equipment, systems, and troubleshooting methods.
• Assist engineers with identifying root causes of electrical, automation, and instrumentation failures and implementing solutions to prevent the reoccurrence of issues.
• Supporting commissioning, projects, and fieldwork verifying electrical and controls.

What you’ll bring

• Experience working in industrial settings with comparable electrical, control, and instrumentation systems.
• High level of English Competency (both written and oral)
• Knowledge of electrical policies, standards, and codes pertaining to industrial electrical systems.
• Experience at an industrial facility.
• Experience with motor starter circuits and variable frequency drives.
• Experience troubleshooting industrial electrical, control, and instrumentation systems.
• Ability to understand control drawings including schematics, loop diagrams, ladder logic, and block diagrams.
• Autonomous, energetic, and collaborative
• It will also be beneficial if you have:
• Experience with Emerson Rosemount transmitters.
• Experience with Fischer Valves and Positioners.
• Knowledge of Allen Bradley PLC and Emerson DeltaV DCS systems
• Knowledge of High Voltage Distribution Systems up to 44kV

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

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.

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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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.