Manager Operations Dampier

 Manager Operations - Dampier

• You can have it all – broad operational role with an opportunity to live in a coastal, family friendly location - Dampier
• Key leadership role managing a diverse range of technical and operational teams, as well as internal and external stakeholders
• Full time Permanent opportunity with flexible working arrangements

About the role

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

We are looking for a Manager Operations for the Dampier operations within the Dampier Salt organisation. This role has accountability to safely lead the production, quality, and maintenance teams located in Dampier.

You will continually seek to improve safety, processes, cost efficiency and productivity across the Dampier site, while working closely with your peers across the Dampier Salt portfolio, including sites located in Lake MacLeod Carnarvon, Port Hedland, and within our Perth based central functions of maintenance and engineering, and integrated planning. All of our sites have strong connection with our international shipping and marketing teams, making this role unique in the breadth and scope of exposure to an end-to-end business.

Dampier Salt is considered a global leader in reliable and consistent production of salt. As a part of the Rio Tinto group, 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 within Rio Tinto are broad and exciting.

Reporting to the General Manager Dampier Salt, and working in a collaborative networked, community, you will be:

• Leading a team of superintendents in the safe planning, organisation, implementation, and execution of a site business plan connected to the broader Dampier Salt strategy and plan
• Oversee production, process and maintenance strategies to meet targets
• Assume the responsibilities and associated duties of a Site Senior Executive
• Manage financials to ensure budget adherence and productivity improvements
• Work as a leadership representative in the region for Dampier Salt
• Work closely with external stakeholders to develop, build and maintain relationships
• Show commitment to preserve and promote the unique qualities of Dampier Salt

What you’ll bring

This is an opportunity is to bring your previous demonstrated safety leadership, relationship building, and operational excellence into a truly unique, broad and diverse role. While your previous experiences will set you up to develop your understanding of the salt industry, you will have autonomy to promote, mentor and drive a diverse way of working and challenge the status quo within an integrated framework of a multi-site operation.

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
• 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 working

Dampier Salt Limited (DSL) is located in Western Australia and comprises of three solar operations – Dampier, Port Hedland and Lake MacLeod. It is the world’s largest exporter of seaborne salt, with capacity to produce approximately 10.3 million tonnes every year.

At our Lake MacLeod operations, we also mine and export gypsum to customers in Australia and Southeast Asia.

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 Sunday 27^th November 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).