Superintendent Cape Lambert Utilities

Superintendent Cape Lambert Maintenance Utilities

• Challenging role that will broaden your horizons
• Manage safety system process and procedures
• Permanent opportunity – based either residential in Wickham or FIFO from Perth

About the role

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

We are looking for a Maintenance Superintendent Utilities to join our Coastal Pilbara Utilities leadership team, and oversee maintenance for our utilities assets. The scale and complexity of operations is significant which will provide you with opportunities to demonstrate your expertise in maintenance, and your capabilities as a respected people leader.

In this role, you’ll be managing a significant asset base, whilst leading maintenance crews and coordinating shift activities to deliver maintenance targets in a safe and cost effective manner. The asset base and commodities under your remit will include – fuel hubs and storage tanks, an electrical transmission and distribution network, water supply network, waste water processing plant.

This is a high profile opportunity to work with a diverse group of stakeholders, provide advice to senior leadership, and guide our sites towards operational success. Working closely with local site leadership, vendors and communities, reporting to the Manager Coastal Maintenance, you will be:

• Providing leadership and guidance to Supervisors and multidisciplinary trade teams.
• Driving efficiencies to improve productivity, and managing risks.
• Managing seamless delivery of services to assist sites achieve their targets.
• Proactively managing our assets during planned and unplanned outages to minimise production losses.
• Implementing and developing asset management processes for existing and new assets.
• Effectively managing operating costs and identifying opportunities to free cash flow.
• Capital planning and forecasting for planned projects.

What you’ll bring;

We are seeking to appoint an accomplished maintenance leader, who is comfortable leading in a complex setting across multiple disciplines. You might be an experienced maintenance/utilities leader contemplating a change of scene. Perhaps you are seeking a role that will provide greater challenge and variety. If so, we would encourage you to consider this opportunity.

We’ll provide opportunities to challenge yourself, learn from others, share your own ideas and champion a supportive and inclusive approach towards leading your team. To be successfully considered for this role, we are seeking the below attributes:

• You’re driven to succeed and are committed to championing safety in the workplace.
• Proven leadership experience, with the ability to coach, mentor and develop a team.
• Commercial and technical acumen, enabling you to effectively manage assets and maintenance.
• An understanding of the challenges associated with large scale mining operations and utilities assets maintenance.
• Tertiary level qualifications in Electrical Engineering (advantageous) or significant Utilities Electrical trade and supervisory experience.
• A current Manual C Class driver's license.

The role can be based residentially in Wickham or FIFO from Perth. If you’re not already based here in Western Australia, we can offer comprehensive relocation assistance.

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

Where you’ll be working

The role will be based out of our Cape Lambert Office, either FIFO from Perth or residentially based in Wickham.

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own an integrated portfolio of iron ore assets: a world-class, integrated network of 16 mines, four independent port terminals, a 1,700 kilometre rail network and related infrastructure –all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand. We are one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of iron ore.

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 the 20^th Oct 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)