• Your work will improve maintenance planning effectiveness and equipment reliability, helping deliver safe and sustainable operational performance.
• Collaborate with the Maintenance Planner and Operations Coordinator to influence work management maturity
• Permanent, full-time opportunity based in Kitimat, BC, offering an exceptional lifestyle with access to world-class outdoor recreation and a close-knit community.

About the role

We are looking for an Analyst, Maintenance Scheduling to help the Maintenance team deliver safe, reliable and efficient maintenance execution. In this role, you will contribute to improved equipment reliability, workforce productivity and schedule compliance by coordinating weekly maintenance activities, ensuring materials are ready for execution, aligning work across operational stakeholders, and working closely with tradespeople in the field to adjust maintenance plans in real time as priorities and conditions change.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working in a dynamic industrial environment and wants to influence operational performance. You'll work closely with experienced maintenance teams, building knowledge of complex crane assemblies, heavy equipment, and maintenance planning best practices.

While we don't offer fly-in-fly-out arrangements, we do offer domestic relocation assistance, to help you settle in and thrive. Join us and become an integral part of our vibrant community. Located on British Columbia, Canada's northwest coast, Kitimat is a welcoming, family-friendly community set between the mountains and the sea. Known for its strong local economy, modern amenities, short commutes, and endless opportunities for outdoor adventure, it's an ideal place to build both a career and a life.

What you'll be doing

Reporting to the Superintendent Asset Management, you will

• Develop and maintain achievable weekly maintenance schedules by partnering with Supervisors, Superintendents, Operations, and other stakeholders, while facilitating planning and scheduling meetings to align priorities, resolve constraints, and support execution readiness.
• Produce multi-discipline maintenance schedules with realistic timelines, identified constraints, and all required materials, tools, and equipment available for execution.
• Manage outstanding maintenance work and support effective backlog prioritization to optimize resource utilization and maintenance performance.
• Coordinate maintenance activities across Operations, contractors, and other departments to meet committed timeframes and minimize disruption to production.
• Coordinate contractor schedules and prepare work packages to support safe and efficient maintenance execution.
• Prepare and communicate maintenance performance metrics and key performance indicators to support decision-making and continuous improvement.
• Apply shutdown and work management best practices to support safe, efficient, and reliable maintenance outcomes.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities while supporting effective risk management across maintenance activities.
• Develop and maintain safe work procedures and standard operating practices by incorporating feedback and lessons learned from frontline tradespeople.

About you

We're looking for someone whose experience aligns with the key requirements below. You do not need to meet every 'helpful for success' item to apply; if you bring relevant experience and are excited by the opportunity, we encourage you to submit an application.

Required for Success

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate competing priorities, engage stakeholders and translate maintenance requirements into practical schedules.
• Experience in maintenance planning or scheduling within mining, processing, manufacturing or other large-scale industrial environments.
• A maintenance-related qualification, trade certification, technologist qualification, engineering qualification, Maintenance Management Professional (MMP) designation, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience using SAP CMMS and Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

Helpful for Success

• Experience with Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma methodologies.
• Experience using Microsoft Project or similar scheduling tools.
• Understanding of maintenance work management processes

Applications close on Thursday the 8th of October 2026 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

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 $76,480 - $114,720 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)
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Exclusive employee discounts
• Domestic relocation program if eligible

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 70 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 70 years.