Manager Fixed Plant

Manager Fixed Plant – West Angelas

• Join our world-class, Pilbara Iron Ore operations
• Bring your genuine authenticity as an experienced leader to the West Angelas team
• Opportunity to grow your career and work with people who inspire and motivate you
• FIFO from Perth on a 5 days on, 2 off, 4 days on, 3 off roster

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Manager, Fixed Plant to join the West Angelas leadership team and lead our plant operations teams to success.

As an experienced production / asset management / processing and/or maintenance leader, this is a great opportunity to lead large multi-disciplined plant operations and maintenance teams. We invite you to be part of our ongoing journey to take efficiency and safety to the next level.

Reporting to the General Manager West Angelas and working in a challenging and exciting environment, you will be providing authentic leadership and genuine care for your team whilst demonstrating the Rio Tinto values of care, courage, and curiosity.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

Your ability to focus on performance will be integral, you will be:

• Accountable for delivery of ore product that meets the product quality specification through consistent and reliable plant performance.
• Deploying and developing plant operational and maintenance teams and individuals
• Developing a performance culture according to our values of care, courage and curiosity which drives exemplary safety behaviours and stable operating outcomes
• Ensuring core plant operations and asset management processes and practices are being applied
• Managing the fixed plant shutdown cycle and delivery of shutdowns safely and on schedule
• Assessing and managing risks over asset lifecycle, reviewing and auditing compliance

You’ll build strong relationships with internal stakeholders across our operational teams and functional support teams while externally, you'll work with our original equipment manufacturers.

What you’ll bring

• As a genuine and authentic leader, you will bring your demonstrated care and engaging leadership style.
• Integral to this role will be your ability to lead by example, build a strong connection with your team and your various stakeholders. We expect you to bring your passion for field presence and curiosity.
• Your exceptional stakeholder management skills are required, you will have held experience in partnership and collaboration across multi-disciplinary groups within a matrix organisation.
• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team is vital for all roles at Rio Tinto.
• Courage to challenge operating conditions and your focus on production and performance will be required to succeed in this role, as a Manager Fixed Plant it is expected that you safely and economically deliver production plans.
• Your production / process plant operations / asset management and/or maintenance optimization experience is necessary.

If you are interested in the role and believe you have transferrable skills, we encourage you to apply also.

What we offer 

• Be recognised 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
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• Full relocation provided to Western Australia from elsewhere in Australia
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive bonus
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Company provided insurance cover
• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave, cultural leave)
• To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them
• Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more

Where you’ll be working

Located 110km west of Newman, West Angelas is a pioneer in autonomous technologies – we were the first site to trial autonomous haul trucks and incorporate autonomous drilling into our operations in 2008, and we continue to have one of the largest mining fleets in the Pilbara.

Our high grade, low phosphorous Marra Mamba orebody is an integral part of the Pilbara Blend, contributing both lump and fines products on around four trains each day. At the West Angelas hub there are state-of-the-art power generation and refuelling facilities. These facilities supply power and diesel fuel to the East Pilbara mine sites.

Who we are 

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 and meet opportunities. 

Applications close on Monday, 15^th January 2024 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)