Superintendent Closure Projects

Superintendent Closure Projects

• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
• Excellent work environment where people are valued and respected
• Culturally unique, coastal lifestyle based in Gove, Northern Territory

About the role

We are looking for a Superintendent Closure Projects to lead a multi-disciplinary team and manage a diverse portfolio of projects designed to enable the successful execution of the overall Gove Closure Program. This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated individual to contribute to a meaningful program of works and gain experience at a site transitioning from operations to closure.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager and working in a challenging and exciting environment within the Gove Closure team, you will:

• Form strong working relationships with internal stakeholders, including the Gove Closure Operations team, Environment teams, Engineering, and Rio Tinto Major Projects.
• Lead the delivery of a portfolio of projects through the project lifecycle, including project shaping, concept, order of magnitude, prefeasibility, feasibility/detailed design, and execution.
• Work closely with Gove Closure Area Superintendents to collaboratively deliver closure projects.
• Manage the pipeline of closure enabling studies and projects based on priority and risk to the overall Gove Closure program. Lead and oversee the development of project scopes and funding requests, and distribute to your team of Project Leads to ensure efficient project delivery.
• Provide visible safety leadership in the field and build and maintain a strong safety culture in project delivery.
• Develop and lead a growing team of Project Leads, Engineers and Construction Leads to consistently deliver high quality projects and safe project execution.
• Provide leadership in project portfolio governance to demonstrate effective project portfolio control of cost, schedule and risk.

What you will bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Demonstrated previous experience in leading teams of project management professionals
• Previous experience in managing the delivery of a portfolio of projects (e.g sustaining capital) and a strong understanding of project controls and project portfolio management
• Qualifications in Project Management, Engineering or similar will be highly favourable.
• Strong influencing skills and ability to drive improvement

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, thinking, and 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)
• Relocation assistance where necessary

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.

Where you will be working

Our Gove Operations have been supplying the global aluminium industry with world-class bauxite for more than 40 years. Located in Australia’s Northern Territory, each year the operation produces approximately 12 million tonnes of bauxite.

With a workforce of 460 people, daily activities include mine operations, maintenance, asset management, shutdown planning and execution, export operations, cultural heritage management, and closure activities following our decision to close the site’s alumina refinery and associated Residue Disposal Area in 2017. 

We expect our bauxite mining operations on the Gove Peninsula will cease in 2030 and we are undertaking significant work to support closure of the operation. We also recognise 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.

Rio Tinto Projects helps to grow our business by building new mines and assets and studying the different options for both new construction projects and operations approaching closure. We are recognised for delivering safely on time and on budget or better. We have won multiple awards for our work, including at the Amrun Bauxite mine in North Queensland, Australia, and on the AutoHaul™ driverless trains in the Pilbara, Western Australia.

This is a residential role based in Nhulunbuy, NT. Relocation and housing assistance provided.

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 Monday, 16th January 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).