Superintendent Health and Safety | Rail

Health & Safety Superintendent | Rail Operations and Engineering

• Permanent Full Time role | Residential (Karratha) or FIFO 5/2 4/3
• Key focus on supporting two areas of the Rail Division the Rail Operations and Rail Engineering and Strategy teams within the Iron Ore product group
• Lead a team and drive Health and Safety execution of strategy, strengthening our business and risk processes and delivering improvement initiatives to enhance our culture

About the role

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

We are looking for a Superintendent Health & Safety to provide dedicated support to Rail Operations and Rail Engineering and Strategy within the Iron Ore product group. This role is being offered either in a 5/2 4/3 residential roster, living in Karratha or Dampier or alternatively a 5/2 4/3 FIFO roster.

We are seeking an engaging, safety focused leader to join the Iron Ore Health and Safety Team. This role is pivotal in the delivery of Health and Safety strategy executed across the Rail Network within the hubs at Dampier, Cape Lambert, Tom Price and Operations Centre. The role also provides leadership to a team of health and safety professionals.

Your demonstrated ability to build relationships, engage, and partner with key stakeholders will play a critical part to the effectiveness in this role. A truly collaborative position that will see you partnering with both the operational business leadership team and health and safety senior professionals to drive strengthened business processes and improved health and safety culture, underpinned by our values of care, curiosity and courage. You will support leaders to operationalise the Health and Safety Management System and deliver to the health and safety strategy

Reporting to the Ports and Rail Health & Safety Business Partner you will be: 

• Partnering with operational leaders to build and deliver safety leadership capability, risk management, work planning safety outcomes and learning and engagement.
• Leading and coaching a Health and Safety team and dedicated Emergency Services team.
• Effectively sharing, learning and collaborating with Health and Safety peers on best and leading practices
• Active in the development of the Iron Ore HS strategy and improvement plans, including the communication and execution at a site or divisional level.
• Informed of performance, trends and insights from your department, and those across Iron Ore, through the analysis and evaluation of safety culture, control effectiveness, social processes, incident, and audit data, in making recommendations to advance safety maturity and mitigate causes/prevent occurrences.
• Providing technical guidance on risk and the management of safety programs, standards and legislative requirements, through coaching, training and mentoring.
• Overseeing the development and implementation of assurance frameworks to monitor on-going compliance of operations with respect to arranged audits, inspection plans and fatality prevention.
• Providing support, guidance and advice on safety issues at an operational level.
• Managing the interface between the Office of the National Rail Safety Regulator and the wider Rail Division.

What you’ll bring

• Tertiary qualified in health, safety, engineering or human factors
• Previous experience in a leadership role
• Demonstrated experience in business improvement projects
• Demonstrated ability to execute strategy and manage change
• Advanced communication, influencing and engagement skills
• Knowledge of relevant Australian HSE legislation/standards
• HS professional or passionate operational leader with history of strong HS performance;

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Knowledge and experience in the Rail National Safety Law Act and Regulations
• Exposure to systems such as SAP, Sharepoint, Excel and HSE databases / safety reporting system

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

What we offer

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

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
• Flexible working from home arrangements as per operational requirements
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Housing or Rental Subsidy available depending on housing avaiability
• 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)
• Relocation offered

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

Karratha is located 1,572km north of Perth. It is a modern Pilbara mining town serving the ports of Dampier and Cape Lambert and has an estimated population of 2,300 people. This idyllic coastal location boasts pristine sandy beaches, excellent fishing spots and the opportunity to be part of a close knit community.

Our port facilities consist of four shipping terminals located on the Pilbara coast at Dampier and Cape Lambert which form an essential part of our logistics process. Each terminal has facilities for train unloading, iron ore stockpiling, product blending and ship loading

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 19 October 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)