Superintendent Dewatering - Paraburdoo

Superintendent Dewatering – Paraburdoo

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
• Exciting newly created position
• Residential in Paraburdoo

About the role

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

We are looking for an engaging, safety focused Superintendent Dewatering to join the Mine Operations team at Paraburdoo.

This is a great opportunity for a leader with great communication skills to lead a diverse team. Reporting to the Manager Mine Operations you will be joining and experienced Superintendent group and leading a developing dewatering team in a challenging and exciting environment. You will be:

• A valued partner of the Mine Operations team.
• Actively engaging and influencing the wider operations teams to improve the site’s safety, cost and production outcomes.
• Collaborate and partner with our extensive supporting functions to ensure Dewatering leading practice is implemented and sustained.

A truly diverse role that will provide exciting challenges.

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Prior Dewatering, Mining or Maintenance experience preferable.
• Be an engaging leader who can engage, influence, coach and motivate both your immediate team but also your wider stakeholder group.
• Be resilient, proactive and pragmatic with the ability to drive progress and change within a dynamic environment.
• Have leadership experience and be confident in leading, developing and coaching team members

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

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’ll be working

Located 80km south west of Tom Price, Paraburdoo is a town nestled in some of the most scenic landscape in Western Australia. Paraburdoo is recognised for its beautiful scenery, wildlife diversity and close proximity to Karijini National Park. Paraburdoo prides itself on being a safe and friendly community; ideal for young families.

The picturesque town provides residents with a range of leisure facilities and local amenities including a domestic airport, hospital, community centre, child care centre, primary school, parks and a variety of sporting facilities. The recently built Paraburdoo Sports, Fitness and Community Complex offers state of the art facilities including an Olympic-size swimming pool, indoor basketball court and gym. 

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 31 August 2022 however we do reserve the right to close the role earlier.