Superintendent Cranes & Belts

Superintendent Cranes & Belts

• Great leadership opportunity with ongoing development
• Lead a safety-driven and inclusive group
• Dampier based residential role, 5:2:4:3 roster

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are seeking a highly motivated, engaging, safety focused leader to join our Cranes & Belts team, based at the Dampier operation. Reporting to the Manager Maintenance, Planning and Logisitics we are seeking a Superintendent Cranes & Belts to deliver safe and timely execution of cranes, transport and conveyor maintenance requirements for our Dampier Port operation.

Our port facilities consist of four shipping terminals located on the Pilbara coast at Dampier and Cape Lambert which form an essential part of our logistics process. Each terminal has facilities for train unloading, iron ore stockpiling, product blending and ship loading.

This role presents a fantastic opportunity to draw on your people leadership skills and technical knowledge. Positively develop and support your team of Supervisors; enabling operational, quality and budget requirements to be met, whilst driving safety excellence and positive team culture.

You will work closely with various site operational teams to provide effective and efficient crane and conveyor belt maintenance solutions. Therefore, your demonstrated ability to engage, connect and positively influence will prove valuable to the effectiveness of this role.

About the role

This dynamic team execute planned, opportune and breakdown work focusing on delivering safely and efficiently to customer needs. This role is a great opportunity for an experienced Superintendent to join our team where you will be responsible for:

• Leading an experienced team of supervisors who manage the cranage, transport and scraper maintenance onsite execute work safely across a geographically spread portfolio
• Partnering with our conveyor belt contract partner and supporting to execute work safely and productively through leadership routines and contractor management processes
• Stakeholder management across various operational and maintenance teams to deliver effective and efficient crane and conveyor belt maintenance solutions
• Providing input into business risk processes and asset management plans
• Managing your department budget and demonstrate cost conscious attributes
• Engage and work closely with business partners such as Health & Safety, Procurement, Fleet Services and Finance to support delivery of contract services and asset replacements
• Conduct continuous improvement activities to increase safety, finance and productivity outcomes

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• Strong leadership skills with experience and confidence in leading, developing and coaching team members creating a driven and motivated team
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with experience navigating internal and external relationships
• Demonstrated partnership and collaborative contractor management experiences
• A flexible and resilient attitude moving seamlessly with dynamic business demands
• Be proactive with a commitment to driving a safe and inclusive team culture
• Be mechanically minded with a learning mindset and curosity
• Desirable to have experience in mining and / or heavy transport industry

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 culture to support flexible working options
• 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

Our port facilities consist of four shipping terminals located on the Pilbara coast at Dampier and Cape Lambert which form an essential part of our logistics process. Each terminal has facilities for train unloading, iron ore stockpiling, product blending and ship loading.

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 for this role will close on 5^th February 2023 however we do reserve the right to close the role and commence interviews earlier.