Executive Assistant

Executive Assistant

• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
• Fostering a collaborative team environment built on strong work ethics.
• Located in beautiful Salt Lake City, UT.

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a highly motivated Executive Assistant to provide support to the Director of Kennecott Utah Copper and Senior Leadership team.

This role will ensure company commitments and objectives are accomplished, operations run efficiently, maintains and refines processes.

You will also serve as a liaison between the Managing Director and other departments, clients, and external partners, fostering strong professional relationships and ensuring effective communication.

Reporting to the Managing Director Kennecott Utah Copper, and working in a collaborative community, exciting environment, and you will be :

• Coordinating complex scheduling and extensive calendar management
• Planning large-scale events, hosting senior-level internal and external stakeholders
• Creating a community of positive support and collaboration within your various work groups while working within multiple time zones
• Provides or lead a full range of secretarial / administrative support to an Executive
• Receives, screens and directs incoming calls, visitors, mail and e-mail
• Maintains files, records, calendars and diaries; typically arranges extensive business travel, visas, coordinates meeting arrangements, and tracks expenses
• Participates in the development and implementation of secretarial / administrative
• standards, policies and practices for the organization
• Manages complex monthly reporting, dashboards, cost analysis, supports and / or leads functional / special project

What you’ll bring

• Bachelors degree
• Or 4+ years of experience in supporting Senior-level Executives
• Experience developing and internal processes and organization systems
• Proficiency in MS Office suite and MS Teams
• Concise and effective written and verbal communication
• Maintain professionalism and strict confidentiality with all information, and exercise discretion when interfacing with others
• Large event and VIP visit planning experience
• Ability to work from the office or your home as business needs require
• A notary public license or willingness to obtain one.

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

Where you’ll be working

Our Kennecott mine is a world-class, fully integrated copper mining operation, including a concentrator, smelter and refinery, located just outside Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States.

We produce copper, precious metals including gold and silver, molybdenum, tellurium and sulfuric acid. Kennecott has been mining and processing minerals from the rich ore body of the Bingham Canyon Mine since 1903, and is one of the top producing mines in the world, comprising approximately 11 percent of annual copper production.

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 situations and meet opportunities.