Manager Fixed Plant, Pannawonica

Manager Fixed Plant, Pannawonica

We encourage women and Indigenous Peoples to apply, as we advance our business to more accurately reflect the world around us.

• Join our world class, Pilbara Iron Ore Operations

• Lead our Pannawonica plant operations to success

• Opportunity to grow your career and work with people who inspire and motivate you

• Residential role located at Pannawonica, Housing & Relocation provided

About the role

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

As an experienced asset management and/or processing 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, support the operation and business, whilst providing authentic leadership and genuine care to our people.

We need you to motivate, inspire and keep your people safe and well. With signature leadership training programmes, growing and developing is more than an opportunity –it is something we actively plan and make happen. Every day, our leaders grow.

Reporting to the General Manager, Pannawonica and working in a challenging and exciting environment, you will be:

• Accountable for delivery of ore product that meets the product quality specification through consistent and reliable plant performance

• Identifying opportunities to optimise and rationalise plant assets

• Defining the strategies for the renewal or disposal of plant assets

• Deploying and developing plant operations and maintenance teams and individuals

• Ensuring core plant operations and asset management processes and practices are being applied

• Assessing and managing risks over asset lifecycle

• Reviewing and auditing compliance

• Reporting incidents as appropriate

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 work with our original equipment manufacturers.

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• Demonstrated ability to safely and economically deliver production plans

• Process plant operations and/or asset management and/or maintenance optimization experience

• Authentic leadership and genuine care

What we offer 

• Be recognised for your contribution, you’re 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)

• Work on Country with a residential role which offers company housing and financial support with living expenses including rent and utilities (power and water).

• 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 in the scenic Pilbara region and close to the major centre of Karratha, the vibrant town offers a sought-after lifestyle and affordable living in comfortable subsidised housing.

This is a great opportunity for you and your family to contribute to a unique community and enjoy a wide range of seasonal outdoor activities; allowing you to find the perfect balance between leisure and work. From the popular annual rodeo event to other regular social and cultural activities, local residents can make the most of modern amenities.

The town of Pannawonica is supported by a resident doctor, an excellent primary school with options to undertake secondary school studies in a supervised distance education program, supermarket, and a local community gym and youth centre.

Living, and working locally you will operate on 5 days on, 2 days off / 4 days on, 3 days off roster.

Applications close on the 13th of December 2024 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

About Rio TintoRio 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.

Every Voice MattersAt 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.