Manager Fixed Plant and MEM

Manager Fixed Plant & MEM

• A senior leadership opportunity that partners and influences across a significant stakeholder group 
• Drive innovation and promote value-added growth as part of your work
• Opportunity to grow your career and work with people who inspire and motivate you 
• FIFO 5/2 4/3 from Perth – Marandoo or explore a residential lifestyle in Tom Price

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Manager Fixed Plant & MEM to join the Pilbara Mines leadership team and deliver world-class asset management and engineering support across our Marandoo operations.

As an experienced leader, this is a great opportunity to lead our people centric team whose expertise span across Fixed Plant Shutdowns, Planning & Engineering, Mobile Equipment Maintenance and Fixed Plant Operations and maintenance. We invite you to be part of our ongoing journey to take efficiency and safety to the next level, support the operation and business, whilst providing authentic leadership and genuine care to our people. 

We need you to be a team player and work across the boundaries; to motivate, inspire and keep your people safe and well, where our focus is a centre of care and trust. With signature leadership training programmes, growing and developing is more than an opportunity – it is something we actively plan and make happen.

This role offers you an opportunity to manage more than just steady state operations. Reporting to the General Manager Tom Price and Marandoo and working in a challenging and exciting environment, you will:

• Provide long term strategies and plans with a clear line of sight from the overall business objectives building capacity, productivity and improvement
• Implement core activities, practices and procedures and follow-ups to develop safety culture
• Identify opportunities to optimise and rationalise fixed plant and mobile equipment assets
• Define the strategies for the renewal or disposal of fixed plant and mobile equipment assets 
• Deploy and develop maintenance teams and individuals 
• Ensure core asset management processes and practices are being applied 
• Assess and manage risks over asset lifecycle 
• Review and audit compliance with business standards
• Manage incident investigations, reporting, and appropriate communications to the wider business for replicable learnings
• Be accountable for delivery of ore product that meets the product quality specification through consistent and reliable plant performance

In addition to the above, you'll build strong relationships with internal stakeholders across our operational teams and functional support teams while externally, you'll partner with our original equipment manufacturers. 

What you’ll bring

You are an experienced people leader who is ready for a role of this complexity. You’re well versed in leading technical teams, perhaps you’re in a similar role and looking for a challenge that will give you exposure to the innovative application of world leading technology. This is the role that will set you apart with experience you can’t get anywhere else.

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team 
• Demonstrated leadership experience fostering the Rio Tinto values: Care, Courage and Curiosity
• Strategic mindset in being able to interpret complex systems and identify key value drivers
• Experience in organisation change, prioritising people and problem solving
• Asset management or maintenance optimization experience 
• Demonstrated ability to safely and economically deliver production plans
• Process plant operations and/or asset management and/or maintenance optimization experience

Exposure to fixed plant and/or heavy mobile equipment maintenance is desirable, we would be interested in hearing from individuals with leadership experience gained across other operational maintenance environments. 

There are also plenty of opportunities for you to make a difference in this role and you'll be supported by your leader to bring a deep curiosity to you work in identifying and delivering tangible business improvement.

What we offerBe 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
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• 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)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins witha 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’ll be workingThe Marandoo mine is located at the foot of Mount Bruce adjacent to the Karijini National Park, 50 km east of the town of Tom Price. Marandoo is known for its picturesque hills and mountain ranges. Our operation currently employs a fly in fly out workforce.

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.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.

Applications close on the 7^th May 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)