Laboratory Superintendent

Superintendent - LABORATORY AND GOVERNANCE SYSTEMS

• Make your mark with an organisation that values your work
• Working within a supportive culture and forward-thinking team
• Residential role offering an attractive coastal lifestyle – Gladstone, QLD

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We are looking for a Superintendent - Laboratory and Governance Systems to lead our laboratory at Boyne Smelters Limited (BSL).This role will:

• ensure that the site laboratory facilities are maintained and continually developed,
• provide governance of the site technical assurance system and site reporting comments.

We are an open, connected international team of technical specialists using some of the most exciting data and tools on the planet. We are the world leader in automation and smart mining. We have technical development programmes that are industry-leading and recognise the unique nature of your role. These provide opportunities to grow your career through a dedicated technical path while being rewarded for your unique skills

Leading a diverse team, you will be:

• Enabling the safe and continuous stable operation of the site 24-hour laboratory facility.
• Overseeing the site technical assurance system.
• Ensuring team objectives and work schedules are maintained in line with customer expectations.
• Driving technical and personal excellence by mentoring and identifying development opportunities for team members.
• Working closely with technical and operations stakeholders both onsite and within the wider business.
• Reporting lab KPI’s and budgets against service level agreements.
• Taking a proactive approach to safety and participating in incident investigations, hazard studies and overall risk mitigation.

What you will bring

• Tertiary qualification in Chemistry, Engineering, or equivalent degree.
• Demonstrate extensive experience in a Laboratory environment.
• Training and competency in NATA accreditation.
• Strong Team leadership skills.
• Proven problem-solving skills and the ability to provide innovative solutions.
• Advanced proficiency in SAP and Microsoft Office.
• Practical and proactive Lean Six Sigma Business Improvement skills.
• A visual leadership style of guiding, mentoring, developing and empowering team members.
• An unwavering commitment to improve and maintain health and safety standards.
• A proven track record of engaging a wide range of people in an industrial site environment to deliver desired outcomes.

It will also beneficial if you have experience within the aluminium smelting environment.

What we offer

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP)
• Access to top tier family-friendly health and medical programs
• Excellent retirement plan
• A comprehensive leave policy that covers all moments that matter in life (vacation/annual, paid parental leave, short term sick leave, paid holidays)
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program

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.

Where you will be working

Opened in 1982, Boyne Smelters Limited is Australia’s second largest aluminium smelter with a 1,000-person strong workforce. Located approximately 20 kilometres southeast of Gladstone at Boyne Island on the Central Queensland coast, BSL produces around 500,000 tonnes of aluminium per annum. 

Activities at BSL include manufacturing carbon anodes in the carbon plant, aluminium production (smelting) in reduction lines, and casting of molten material into aluminium products ready to ship. The smelter is connected via a conveyor belt to the Queensland Alumina Limited refinery for the supply of alumina.

Along with Yarwun Operations and Queensland Alumina Limited, BSL supports the local community in a wide range of initiatives through Here for Gladstone

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.