Superintendent Dewatering & Site Services

Superintendent Dewatering & Site Services – Brockman

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
• 5:3, 4:2 FIFO Roster

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 Greater Nammuldi which is the biggest mine for Rio Tinto Iron Ore.

Leading on the frontline is one of the most important jobs in our business and comes with a huge amount of responsibility. We need you to motivate, inspire and keep your people safe and well.

This is a great opportunity for a leader with solid communication skills to lead a diverse team. You will be joining an experienced Superintendent group and leading a dewatering team in a challenging and exciting environment.

Reporting to the Manager Mine Operations, 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.
• An inspiring role model and coach for positive behaviours, practices and processes, whilst providing leadership, development and support to your team
• Leading site services activities from planning through execution and review, including the responsibility for contractor management
• Fostering a culture of continuous improvement and supporting the team in the implementation of improvement initiatives
• Developing, monitoring and controlling approved budget to deliver cost effective services that meet the business needs

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.
• Be an engaging leader who can engage, influence 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.
• A current Australian driver's license

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 will be working

Located 60km north-west of Tom Price, Brockman is wholly owned and operated by Rio Tinto. Opened in 2010, this open pit operation offers a family friendly fly in fly out roster with state-of-the-art camp facilities.

The Greater Brockman Operations consist of Brockman 2, Brockman 4, Nammuldi and Silvergrass. Driving the latest technological advancements, the open-pit mines offer an avenue for opportunity and career progression. 

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 30 September 2022 however we do reserve the right to close the role earlier.