Superintendent Gravity Take Ups Program

Superintendent – Gravity Take Ups Program

• Supportive team culture with a focus on inclusion, safety and delivery
• An exciting strategic & project delivery role
• Monday to Friday, Perth based role with frequent travel to site

About the Role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

The GTU Program Superintendent is responsible for overseeing the safe delivery of conveyor gravity take up projects across all Rio Tinto Iron Ore sites. The program ensures that the projects are delivered consistently across all sites to ensure efficiencies, capture lessons learnt and replicate best practice. 

The scope of work you will be accountable for is challenging and diverse. The projects fall into two categories: line of fire projects and winch replacement projects. The 18 line of fire projects are a well established group of projects in construction, due for completion progressively between 2023 and 2027. The winch replacement projects are an entirely new set of project that must be created to provide ongoing end of life replacement of RTIO’s 400 GTU winches across all RTIO sites. 

Your demonstrated ability to engage, connect and positively influence key stakeholders at all organizational levels will play a critical part to the effectiveness in this role. You will be an inspiring role model and coach for positive behaviours, practices and processes, whilst providing leadership, development and support to a team of project professionals responsible for delivering a portfolio of projects. 

Reporting to the Manager Sustaining Capital, accountabilities of this role include:

• Co-ordinated management of the GTU program to achieve its strategic objectives and deliver positive outcomes to the organisation.
• Common approach to front end planning set up projects for long term, ongoing success in regards to safety, cost, quality and schedule.
• Assist with review and input to key approval documentation (Scopes of Work, Funding Requests etc.) to ensure compliance with the program.
• Compile and analyse data to actively manage portfolio and for reporting and metrics.
• Collaborate and partner with our extensive supporting functions to ensure best practice is implemented and sustained.
• Support the team in project delivery systems, processes and procedures ensuring that they are embedded across the team, and leverage synergies.
• Engage closely with site operations and maintenance teams to ensure projects meet the business objectives and for reporting.
• Upskilling teams so they are accountable for their own processes and procedures and to seek capital efficiency throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Analyse project resourcing levels and recommend resources as appropriate to meet the program
• Identify program portfolio risks and develop mitigation/recovery strategies – safety, cost, schedule, quality, and procurement
• Develop the program business case in line with the business strategy for the region
• Improve the safety outcomes and behaviours of the team and contractors

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

• Committed to the Rio Tinto Values of Care, Courage and Curiosity
• Full commitment to deliver projects with zero harm
• Project Management, Engineering or Construction qualification/experience
• Solid problem solving skills and ability to produce complex, cohesive reports with multiple inputs and ability to manage large budgets
• Solid stakeholder engagement skills
• Solid experience working within project leadership roles and be confident in effectively leading, mentoring and coaching team members as well as interfacing with senior leaders
• Program management experience, with the ability to define and implement project improvement initiatives to maximise capital efficiency
• A current manual WA Driver’s license

Where you will be working

You will be based at our head office located in Perth Central Park building, working Monday to Friday with site travel required as required. The projects are in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia where Rio Tinto operates.

About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive. We have been mining for almost 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win and meet opportunities.

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 close on 26 February 2023. (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)

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