Superintendent Business Services

Superintendent Business Services

• Join our world-class, Pilbara iron ore operations
• Opportunity to grow your career and work with people who inspire and motivate you
• Perth based position, Monday to Friday

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a an engaging, innovation focussed Superintendent Business Services to join our team in Perth at our Central Park office.

About the role

This is a dynamic and highly influential role with direct involvement in delivery of the key business initiatives. Your leadership approach and experience with developing teams will be integral to delivering an exceptional result. You will provide leadership and direction for the Business Services and Project Controls teams.

Reporting to the Manager Planning, you will:

• Foster a Plan-Do-Check-Act culture within Resource Development, with particular focus on promoting the “Check” step with meaningful metrics and data analytics. Manage operational and capital budgets, forecasts and conformance to plan reporting for Resource Development.
• Manage overall financial (operational and capital) commitments through to completion and reporting of forecast and actual drill metres, productivity and cost performance. This includes joint venture commitments, tenure expenditure and overall drilling programme performance.
• Coordinate development of Annual Plan for Resource Development based on program plans and operational plans and schedules, in close collaboration with stakeholders.
• Provide reporting and analytical services to the division, including ad hoc reporting, development and maintenance of key performance metrics (e.g. contractor performance tracking, equipment utilisation, cost performance, productivity performance, safety performance, etc.), and analyses of data to support key business decisions.
• Develop capability of Resource Development analysts, including a focus on training, feedback, coaching, special projects and peer benchmarking.
• Foster a team culture focussed on care, accountability and continual improvement of business processes to enable better outcomes for Resource Development.
• Represent Resource Development as the Finance Interface, i.e. act as the primary point of contact with the Finance Business Partner and broader Finance team to manage financial planning activities. Facilitate building effective relationships with our partners (internal and external)

What you’ll bring

• Proven leadership skills, leveraging diversity and building high-performing teams to foster a strong team culture
• Strong record of improving business performance and providing robust project controls to a project.
• Passion for strategy, business analysis and team leadership
• Excellent engagement and influencing skills
• Demonstrable commercial acumen

What we offer

• Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped shape new ways of working.
• 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)

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.

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, Rio Tinto undertakes expansive resource development programs that deliver the resources and reserves required to sustain our iron ore business. Rio Tinto operates the world's largest integrated portfolio of iron ore assets with industry-leading margins. Our premium product suite, including our flagship Pilbara blend, drives strong customer relationships and is supported by technical and commercial marketing expertise. The iron ore business continues to be the world's largest autonomous truck operator and a proud leader in automated mining technologies.

Where you’ll be working

You and your team will be Perth based with opportunity to work flexibly from home combined with time in our Central Park offices. Our wider team is spread across a combination of Perth and Pilbara sites. 

This role is open to both full time and part time applicants. Some visits to Pilbara sites will be required: however these can be accommodated on a very flexible basis.

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 for this role will close on 30 January 2023, however we do reserve the right to close the role earlier.

This role is for applicants residing in or willing to permanently relocate to Western Australia