Program Lead Fire System

Superintendent – Fire Systems Program

• Supportive team culture with a focus on inclusion, safety and work life balance
• An exciting strategic & project delivery role
• Monday to Friday, Perth based role with frequent travel to site

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a motivated and engaging Superintendent – Fire Systems Program to lead a high-performance team of Project Leads and Engineers, critical to the success of Rio Tinto's Operations. Working with established systems and processes, you will deliver a portfolio of sustaining capital projects that support our mining operations to produce iron ore in a safe and cost-effective manner.

Taking ownership of the Fire Systems Asset strategy, you will enable your team to achieve safety, productivity & cost improvements across the Iron Ore portfolio. The wide influence of the role requires stakeholder engagement from all areas of the business to ensure fire protection related assets are managed effectively. The fire protection asset related works touches mechanical, civil, electrical, controls discipline with assets such as tanks, pumps, pipes, hydrants, sprinklers, fire panels, SCADA, breakers, gas suppression, VESDA etc.

You will be an inspiring role model and coach for positive behaviours, practices and processes, whilst providing leadership, development and support to a team of project professionals responsible for delivering electrical and control obsolescence projects.

Reporting to the Principal Advisor Fire, Control and Electrical, some of the accountabilities of this role include:

• Responsible for co-ordinating the Fire System projects across RTIO sites and support the implementation of the program.
• Accountable for the program schedule, budget and risk register providing support to the Project Leads to identify project issues and develop appropriate solutions to maintain safe and efficient progress.
• Engage frequently with key project stakeholders (internal and external), to ensure sufficient priority is given to these projects to maintain suitable delivery momentum.
• Contribute to the development of a 5-10 year capital plan for Fire System assets
• Ensure alignment of Fire System project priority in the program with key stakeholders within Maintenance Planning &Engineering, Operations and Maintenance teams
• Prepares monthly progress reports and presents at monthly study meetings
• Develop the program business case in line with the business strategy
• Preparation and technical review of critical documents (funding papers, scope of work, noting papers, approvals applications)
• Raise the awareness and knowledge of fire protection systems across the business.
• Maintain awareness and understanding of national and international fire protection standards and changing fire protection technologies and their application.
• Create a project delivery plan which meets or exceeds all requirements of a Sustainable mining operation which minimises impact on our environment and pays respect to our traditional land owners.
• Commitment to safety, wellness, environment, heritage and community.
• Supporting the improvement of the project delivery systems, processes and procedures ensuring that they are standardised and embedded across the team. 
• Upskilling teams so they are accountable for their own processes and procedures and to seek capital efficiency throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Work within a leadership team to share resources and prioritise projects, effectively delivering projects, minimising risk and maximising value to the business.
• Working closely with support teams in areas such as Project Controls, Contracts & Procurement and Health & Safety to safely execute your projects to realise the benefit to our operations.

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• Committed to the Rio Tinto Values of Care, Courage and Curiosity
• Full commitment to deliver projects with zero harm
• An Engineering degree in either Mechanical, Electrical or Mechatronics
• Experience in delivering portfolio of projects and/or Fire System related projects in heavy industry will be advantageous
• Solid stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills
• Understand how to work within a matrix organisation
• Solid experience working within technical teams, project leadership roles and be confident in effectively leading, mentoring and coaching team members as well as interfacing with senior leaders
• Multi discipline project management experience, with the ability to define and implement project improvement initiatives to maximise capital efficiency
• Demonstrated complex problem-solving abilities to deliver solutions across an operation
• A current manual WA Driver’s license.

What’s on offer

• 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

Where you will be working

You will be based out of our head office located in Perth Central Park building, working Monday to Friday with site travel as required.

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.

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 14^th February. (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)