Superintendent Engineering - Gove

Superintendent Engineering

• Exciting Leadership Opportunity - Gove
• Be part of a diverse team that values, safety, teamwork, inclusion and respectful behaviours while delivering high value outcomes
• Permanent role with family friendly roster which includes a range of additional benefits

About the role

We are looking for a Superintendent Engineering to lead the Engineering team at Gove Operations covering multiple engineering disciplines to enable effective operations.

This is a critical role covering a broad range of asset classes, including heavy mobile equipment, ship loaders, wharfs, power stations, ancillary mining services assets and town asset’s structure. With a range of work areas and stakeholders, it is essential this person has exemplary communication, influencing and leadership skills to inspire continuous improvement while ensuring the success of each person within the team.

Reporting to the Manager Asset Management – Bauxite and working a family friendly Monday to Friday, you will:

• Be a key member of the Integrated Operations Asset Management team accountable for reliability, mechanical, structural and electrical engineering at Gove Operations including both fixed plant and heavy mobile equipment
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with leaders and other key business stakeholders
• Lead the implementation of the strategic asset management plan including the development of engineering processes and systems.
• Develop and continuously improve maintenance strategies and tactics
• Provide ongoing technical engineering guidance and input to maintenance and operations activities where necessary
• Maintain and embed engineering governance and discipline throughout the site to recognize long term value
• Create an interdependent safety culture where teams feel ownership and responsibility for safety

What you’ll bring

• Transformational and adaptive leadership skills to inspire and empower the team to continuously improve while addressing complex challenges
• Tertiary Engineering Degree or Trade qualification
• Demonstrated success in leading complex technical teams within a mining or minerals processing environment
• Skills to recognize and encourage the emergence of future leaders
• Superior interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills with the ability to influence, build credibility and trust across all organisational levels
• Ability to maintain team focus on key priorities to achieve goals
• The ability to deliver great leadership through achieving results, managing people, preparing for the future and developing capability

What we offer

• Gove accommodation and domestic relocation provided
• Five weeks annual leave
• Remote area allowance and area holiday travel assistance
• Paid parental leave up to 9 months
• Health cover scheme for employees and their immediate family
• Salary sacrifice & packaging options – rental, mortgage, super, vehicle
• Rio Tinto employee share program
• Employee discounts – banking, accommodation, motoring, retail and more

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

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.

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.