Superintendent Asset Management GHD

Superintendent Maintenance Planning & Engineering Hope Downs 1

• Supportive team culture with a focus on inclusion, safety and work life balance
• Exciting career growth & development with plenty of stakeholder engagement
• Attractive FIFO 5:2 | 4:3 roster, with the opportunity to work from Perth every other Friday

We are seeking an engaging, people focused Superintendent Maintenance Planning & Engineering to join our Maintenance Planning & Engineering (MP&E) team, to be based at our Hope Downs 1 iron ore operations.

This role presents a fantastic opportunity to draw on your people leadership skills, harnessed with your deep Asset Management knowledge, to positively develop your team and support the heavy mobile equipment (HME) and fixed plant maintenance teams on their transformation journey, whilst driving psychological safety leadership excellence and positive team culture. You'll be leading an engaged and capable team of engineers, planners and a maintenance improvement specialist responsible for implementing our reliability, defect elimination and maintenance planning & scheduling processes.

Your demonstrated ability to engage, connect and positively influence will prove valuable to the effectiveness of this role; as you will be the primary business interface between site operations and the MP&E teams.

Reporting to the Regional Manager – Maintenance Planning & Engineering, you will:

• Be a valued partner of Hope Downs One’s operational and maintenance execution teams
• Actively engage and influence the wider maintenance and operations teams to improve the site’s safety, cost and production outcomes whilst ensuring longer term reliability and integrity
• Widely engage and interface at all levels from general manager to supervisor level
• Collaborate and partner with our extensive supporting functions to ensure asset management leading practice is implemented and sustained at the operations
• Coordinate asset management improvement activities
• Coordinate the maintenance budget process and deliver accurate long term plans/ forecasts and reliability improvement plans
• Champion the site’s reliability and operational control functions
• Actively contribute to the team’s development whilst utilising the RTIO asset management excellence development programs

A truly diverse role that will provide exciting challenges and career growth!

About you

To succeed in this role, you will:

• Be an engaging leader who can engage, influence, coach and motivate both your immediate team but also your wider stakeholder group
• Be resilient, proactive and pragmatic with the ability to drive progress and change within a dynamic environment
• Have a sound understanding of asset management with a solid understanding of maintenance work management, reliability and maintenance budgeting and cost control
• Previous experience as a maintenance superintendent, planning superintendent or reliability superintendent will be highly beneficial
• Hold a relevant Engineering or trade qualification (or transferrable skillset from another industry)
• Have leadership experience and be confident in leading, developing and coaching team members

What we offer

• An exciting opportunity to be part of something big and unique in the Iron Ore industry
• A work environment where safety is a value, not just a priority
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience inclusive of an 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 and salary-packaging options
• Career development and education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and mental wellbeing support
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)

Where you’ll be working

Located 50km north-west of Newman, Hope Downs is a joint venture managed and operated by Rio Tinto, working in conjunction with nearby site Hope Downs 1. Hope Downs 4 provides excellent career growth and opportunities and the village provides excellent facilities for its FIFO workers.

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. 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. 

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