Manager Mine Operations

Manager, Mine Operations

• Join our world-class, Pilbara iron ore operations
• Lead our Brockman 4 mine operations to success
• Opportunity to grow your career and work with people who inspire and motivate you
• Fly in Fly Out opportunity with an attractive flexible roster

About the role

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

We are looking for a Manager, Mine Operations to join our Brockman 4 Operations leadership team and lead our mine operations to success.

As an experienced operational and/or technical leader, this is a great opportunity to diversify your experience or welcome a change in scenery. Alternatively, you’re a high performing frontline leader overseeing a mine operations team and ready to take your career to the next level. 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.

Stakeholder relationships, both internal and external to the business are integral for Brockman 4, we have the opportunity to grow our business with a focus on continuing the important relationship with The Traditional Owners. 

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

• Ensuring the mine achieves a standard of excellence in health and safety operations and compliance by leading and implementing health and safety policies and strategies
• Managing mine production functions to ensure budgeted production targets are achieved in a safe, timely and cost-effective manner
• Ensuring the mine meets the operating budget requirements in the areas of quantity, quality, and cost of production
• Actively involved in the development of the mine budget and annual plan
• Working in close cooperation with peers and other team members
• Evaluating and implementing best practice mining practices
• Establishing a people-centric culture with a focus on safety, wellbeing, engagement and continuous improvement
• In addition to the above, you'll build strong relationships with internal stakeholders across our operational teams and functional support teams.

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety and wellbeing of yourself and your team
• The ability to confidently manage large scale mining operations or projects
• Open cut mining operations experience
• Authentic leadership and genuine care

Exposure to iron ore operations is not essential, and we would be interested in hearing from individuals with leadership experience gained across other commodities.

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 physical and mental 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 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’ll be working

Located 60km north-west of Tom Price, Brockman is wholly owned and operated by Rio Tinto. Opened in 2010, this open pit operation offers a family friendly fly in fly out roster with state-of-the-art camp facilities.

The Greater Brockman Operations consist of Brockman 2, Brockman 4, Nammuldi and Silvergrass. Driving the latest technological advancements, the open-pit mines offer an avenue for opportunity and career progression. 

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 17^th January 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)