Superintendent – Closure Operations
Rio Tinto
Superintendent – Closure Operations
Join a supportive leadership group dedicated to your growth and development.
Take on an exciting leadership role in a dynamic process environment.
Secure a permanent position with a fantastic range of benefits.
Embrace a culturally rich coastal lifestyle in beautiful Gove.
Enjoy domestic relocation assistance within Australia.
About the role
Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.
Are you ready to make a difference? We are looking for a passionate Superintendent Closure Operations to lead our Gove Waste Water Neutralization Plant (WWNP). This role offers a unique opportunity to manage both operations and exciting project activities. If you are a dynamic leader with a knack for influencing and engaging stakeholders, this is your chance to shine. You'll be part of a supportive team of results-driven professionals, all working together to achieve remarkable outcomes.
What You'll Do:
Oversee Daily Operations: Manage the day-to-day activities of the WWNP, ensuring smooth and efficient operations.
Lead and Inspire Teams: Guide and support teams in Operations, Asset Management, Engineering, and Construction.
Drive Innovation: Manage optimization projects and spearhead continuous improvement initiatives.
Champion Safety and Sustainability: Foster a strong health, safety, and environment culture, ensuring compliance with all procedures, standards, and legislation.
Motivate and Develop: Lead, organize, and inspire your teams to exceed expectations and targets, while creating meaningful succession pathways.
Boost Productivity: Implement key improvements to enhance operational efficiency.
Collaborate and Connect: Work closely with key partners to achieve broader business goals.
Measure and Improve: Track, analyse, and report on safety, people, and productivity metrics to consistently exceed plans and enhance performance.
What You'll Bring:
Proactive Mindset: A strong commitment to promoting a holistic safe working culture.
Leadership Experience: Proven experience in operational leadership roles, with the ability to effectively lead, mentor, and coach team members, and engage with senior leaders.
Team Builder: A passion for building and leading engaged, high-performing teams.
Contractor Management: Prior experience in managing contractors is a plus.
Influencing Skills: Strong ability to drive improvements and influence outcomes.
Proven Track Record: Demonstrated success in achieving safety and operational targets.
Engineering Expertise: A solid background in Process Engineering or related disciplines is preferred but not essential.
What we offer
Enjoy domestic relocation assistance.
Receive a remote area allowance (25% of base salary).
Benefit from remote area holiday travel assistance.
Take advantage of heavily subsidised housing and utilities.
Secure a permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto.
Earn a competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience, with an annual incentive program.
Access comprehensive medical benefits, including subsidised private health insurance for you and your immediate family.
Participate in an attractive share ownership plan.
Benefit from company-provided insurance cover.
Explore extensive salary sacrifice and salary packaging options.
Pursue career development and education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions.
Enjoy ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support.
Take leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave).
Access exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail, and more).
Where you will be working
Our Gove Operations have been supplying the global aluminium industry with world-class bauxite for over 40 years. Located in Australia’s Northern Territory, the operation produces approximately 12 million tonnes of bauxite annually.
With a dedicated workforce of 460 people, our daily activities include mine operations, maintenance, asset management, shutdown planning and execution, export operations, cultural heritage management, and closure activities following the decision to close the site’s alumina refinery and associated Residue Disposal Area in 2017.
We anticipate that our bauxite mining operations on the Gove Peninsula will cease in 2030. We are undertaking significant efforts to support the closure of the operation. We also recognize that our operations take place on Indigenous-owned land, and we are committed to working together to achieve a positive future for Nhulunbuy and the Gove Peninsula post-mining.
About Rio TintoRio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win situations and meet opportunities.
Every Voice MattersAt 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.
