Modern ERP Readiness Coordinator

• Support end‑to‑end regional readiness for a major, multi‑year ERP transformation.
• Partner closely with the Kennecott site and the global program to enable successful delivery.
• Fixed Term opportunity (up to 18 months) based in Salt Lake City, Utah

We’re Finding Better Ways™ to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future. Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other. 

About the role

We are looking for Coordinator - Modern ERP Readiness to support upgrading the operating version of SAP, our companies Enterprise Resource Planning application. Whilst, ensuring all subject matter expert (SME) tasks are completed on time and to the required quality standards in support of the S/4HANA deployment.

This role works as a day‑to‑day coordinator for SME execution, partnering closely with the Kennecott Modern ERP Readiness Lead, Regional Readiness Leads, local site representatives, and SMEs. You will help ensure activities are well planned, locally enabled, and effectively tracked, and that risks, issues, and dependencies are identified early and escalated when needed.

Reporting to the Modern ERP Readiness Lead, you will:

• • Support the mobilization and engagement of SMEs for Kennecott readiness activities across the region.
  • Coordinate scheduling and logistics for SME activities, ensuring that:
    • Sessions are planned and sequenced appropriately
    • Meeting rooms, facilities, and technology are available
    • Travel and accommodation are coordinated where required
  • Work with local site representatives to ensure site‑specific requirements and constraints are reflected in planning.
  • Monitor, triage, and escalate risks, issues, and constraints based on severity to the Kennecott Readiness Lead and/or Regional Readiness Lead.
  • Support cutover, deployment, and transition activities as required, including coordination of hyper care support.

About you

• • A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
  • Tertiary qualification in a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience in SAP.
  • At least 5 years of experience coordinating readiness, deployment, or transformation activities involving multiple SMEs or site‑based stakeholders.
    • Focused consideration to those applicants with Information Systems & Technology and/or ERP project deployment experience.
  • An organized and proactive approach to planning, scheduling, and tracking activities, including logistics and dependencies.
  • Experience working in operational industrial and/or mining environments, with the confidence to engage SMEs and raise issues when required.

What we offer

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

• • A work environment where safety is always the number one priority. 
  • Competitive base salary is reflective of your skills and experience with an annual incentive bonus. 
  • Project completion bonus incentive.
  • 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. 
  • Attractive share ownership plan. 
  • Comprehensive leave policies which cover all the moments that matter in life: PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave. 
  • A generous parental leave policy, which ensures you’re able to spend quality time with your new family.
  • Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing.
  • Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), which provides confidential counselling or expert guidance for you and your family to help get through life’s challenges. 

Where you’ll be working 

You’ll join the Modern ERP Program for Kennecott— a multi‑disciplinary team bringing together technology, process, data and change specialists to reshape how work happens across Rio Tinto. We’re modernizing a 20‑year‑old ERP system and redesigning core business processes to improve safety, efficiency and innovation.

This work will make it easier for people across our global operations to spend less time on transactional tasks and more time on the work that really matters. By simplifying and digitizing how the organization runs, the Modern ERP Program is creating the foundation for future productivity gains, smarter decision‑making and AI‑enabled transformation across the business.

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.

 

Respect and Inclusion

Rio Tinto is committed to equal employment opportunity. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel safe, respected and valued. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome but are essential to our success. We treat all our people fairly and with dignity.

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