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- Clear sense of purpose
- Feeling of personal appreciation
- Fair pay for job
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- General feeling of work happiness
- Trust in colleagues
Good learning platform, place for improving your skills
Pot Startup Operator (Current Employee) - Kitimat, BC - 19 April 2022
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The most useful review selected by IndeedBest place to build your career. Great work life balance. Loved the work schedule. It’s is not good for your health for long run for those who not following the safety procedures.
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Great co-workers, poor management
N/A (Current Employee) - Yellowknife, NT - 10 May 2022
The mines take safety very seriously.It's all about who you know, no getting ahead based on merit. Would be nice if top management did more than just try to impress their own bosses. Contractors aren't treated as well as regular employees.
Pros
Good food at camp and good co-workers
Cons
Mine is closing, lots of people are leaving
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Productive
Maintenance Supervisor (Former Employee) - Montréal, QC - 9 May 2022
Great company and good working environment. Would definitively recommend it for anybody looking for good experience. Don't have anything else to had on that.
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Ton bien être, ta consolidation travaille/famille ont s’en fou c est pour ça que tu es bien payé.
mecanicien industriel (Current Employee) - Sorel-Tracy, QC - 22 April 2022
Plein de beaux projets qui ne se termine jamais. Pas d implication des employés a l heure. Discours contradictoires entre superviseurs. Aucune communication entre département… mais la paye est bonne!
Pros
La paye
Cons
Le respect envers les employés
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Productive and fun working with the company
Camp maintenance (Former Employee) - Janice Lake, Saskatchewan - 16 March 2022
I like working with the people at camp very helpful and very friendly. staff are great and very helpful. I like going fishing after work and enjoying the outdoors
Pros
Enjoy working with people and having a positive energy
Cons
Cold weather and rain
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Run away
Maintenance Tradesman (Current Employee) - Kitimat, BC - 16 March 2022
Terrible place of employment. Very high turnover in management. Management treats hourly union employees disrespectfully. Extremely stressful place to work. Rio tinto constantly attacks employee benefits. Most managers are hired off the street with zero experience and are clueless. It should be a huge red flag to you that no experienced long term employees want a management position. Locals with many years of experience and knowledge get no respect. Supervisors run this smelter to the ground, it’s often in an emergency state and on the verge of shutting down. Dirty and unhealthy environment full of toxic carcinogens. The only pro is there is a good strong union to protect and stand up for the workers. Do not recommend working here.
Pros
Strong union for hourly employees
Cons
Bad management, Dirty, stressful
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Très exigeant, manque cruellement de personnel pour faire tout le travail demandé
Informaticien (Former Employee) - Saguenay, QC - 6 February 2022
Plusieurs gestionnaires gère leur carrière d'abord et avant tout. Ils ont des exigences démesurés et les départs à la retraite sont souvent pas remplacés , donc il y a moins d'employés pour exécuter de plus en plus de travail.
Pros
Bon salaire mais la compétition les rattrapent, bon avantage sociaux
Cons
Très exigeant, il faudrait faire des semaines de 50-60 heures pour tout faire
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La sécurité est passé deuxième depuis plusieurs années
Opérateur de production (Current Employee) - Jonquière, QC - 26 January 2022
Sa fait 10 ans que je travail chez Rio Tinto et je me sent pu à ma place , on est mal gérer , cette compagnie écoute personne alors aucune chance d avancement
Pros
Salaires et avantages
Cons
Aucune communication et on est pas des employés, ont est des numéros
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Good place to work
Central Automation Advisor (Former Employee) - Kitimat, BC - 4 January 2022
My first Canadian employer. Lot of learning opportunities. Better work life balance. Supportive management. Excellent relocation support to get familiarized in a new place.
Pros
Team support, Benefits
Cons
Remote location
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Senior mechanical engineer
Senior Mechanical Engineer (Current Employee) - Kitimat, BC - 25 November 2021
Very good culture, safety focused and diverse company with global foot prints. Well developed systems, processes, rules and regulations.Excellent environment to learn and grow as professional
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Good business to be part in.
Operations Supervisor (Former Employee) - Kitimat, BC - 14 November 2021
Management team in Reduction was result oriented and driven to succeed. All hands on deck during emergency situation. A well oiled machine.It was a great experience.
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Excellent place to built career
Senior Mechanical Engineer (Current Employee) - Kemano, BC - 4 October 2021
Global environment Safety focusedInclusive diverse workforce Trained managers State of the art technology Stable long-term employment Continuous learning
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Beaucoup de poussière
SUPERVISEUR MANUTENTION MATÉRIEL (Former Employee) - Sorel-Tracy, QC - 18 August 2021
Ils doivent améliorer certaine condition de travail
Pros
Bon groupe
Cons
Direction douteuse
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travail peut valorisant et tres stressant
Acheteur (Former Employee) - Montreal, QC - 2 May 2021
ne recommande pas comme employeur pour un contrat ou une permanence. cette compagnie respecte peu l'environment en général
Pros
aucun
Cons
stress et peu valorisant
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Mechanical Engineering Intern (Former Employee) - Saguenay Quebec - 20 January 2021
The people and culture are very nice at Rio Tinto. I love how they treat their employer and all the benefit that is included. I also do see growth potential in the company. There is definitely work life balance and often get Friday off.
Pros
Many Friday off in the calendar
Cons
Location is far from big city
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Good career
Multiple over 31yrs (Former Employee) - Labrador City, NL - 24 December 2020
Enjoyed being able to try many different roles during my tenure.A healthy HSE culture.I had a lot of opportunities to learn.Labrador City is a great family community
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Rio Tinto Alcan decent place to work management is always rotating.
Planner/Scheduler (Former Employee) - Kitimat, BC - 18 September 2020
Management is always rotating and creates stress down to the floor. Lots of pressure to perform. RioTinto like their numbers. Very good team. Development schooling is great. Pay and benefits are some what competitive. Rio Tinto Alcan would be an excellent place to work for Unionized. Lower staff is not recognized.
Pros
Stable work, great people
Cons
Poor work life balance
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The Edmonton Alberta location has a great group of staff and management
Welder/Lead Hand (Shutdown) (Former Employee) - Edmonton, AB - 8 September 2020
Had a great time working with this group, they were all very professional, and helpful when we had questions! Only there for short shut down, wish it was longer.
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Job security,
AHS pit patroller (Former Employee) - Nummuldi - 6 September 2020
Job security is one reason I was employed with Rio tinto for so long, how ever what started out as a family friendly business slowly turned into a more ruthless approach towards its employees, with management refusing to make a decision on certain issues and using HR as mechanism to get their desired outcome with sometimes detrimental effects on the employees, technological advancements saw a large up skill of employees which sets people up for a changing future in the
Pros
Ok money, secure, up skilled
Cons
Lowest paying in mining giants, and not family friendly.
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Work hard play well
Senior Financial Analyst (Former Employee) - Montréal, QC - 12 August 2020
Good work environment! Clear goal defined each year and quarterly review to follow up progress.Good team work spirit and open communication. Weekly team meeting encourages Exchange ideas, issues.
Pros
Good pension plan
Cons
Meet deadline as the result of long hours
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