Superintendent Drill & Blast

Superintendent Drill and Blast

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusiveness
• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
• 9:5 roster in Marandoo

About the role

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

We are looking for a Superintendent Drill and Blast to join our Marandoo Mine Operations Leadership team.

This is a great opportunity for an engaging individual to lead a great team of drill and blast supervisors while promoting positive safety and people culture through visible and tangible leadership.

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.

With signature leadership training programmes, growing and developing is more than an opportunity – it is something we actively plan and make happen. Every day our leaders grow, while our rosters are designed to help you live the lifestyle that is right for you and your family.

Reporting to the Mining Manager and working in a challenging and exciting environment, within Marandoo Mine Operations Department, you will be:

• An inspiring role model and coach for positive behaviours, practices and processes, whilst providing leadership, development and support to the drill and blast teams
• Responsible for the development of a strong safety culture ensuring adherence to procedures for drill and blast operations
• Ensuring compliance to site standards and legislation
• Measuring, recording, analysing and reporting on all drill and blast activities to consistently achieve plan and improve performance
• Working collaboratively and fostering relationships with other departments to achieve wider business objectives

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Proactive with a strong commitment in driving a safe working culture
• Experience working in operational leadership roles and be confident in effectively leading, mentoring and coaching team members as well as interfacing with senior leaders
• A desire to build and lead engaged teams
• Demonstrated background in drill and blast operations, with strong technical skills in blasting is preferred
• A current Australian driver's license

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• Get ahead financially and enjoy housing subsidy benefits
• Remote Area Holiday Travel Assistance (residential roles only)
• 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 and salary packaging options
• Career development and 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)

Where you’ll be working

Located 45km east of Tom Price, Marandoo offers a range of fly in fly out rosters. The below-water-table expansion is expected to extend the life of the mine by approximately 16 years. An updated accommodation village complements the mine expansion and provides modern, comfortable facilities for its workforce. 

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins witha 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 14 September 2022 however we do reserve the right to close the role earlier.