Superintendent - Maintenance

Superintendent Maintenance

• Bring your maintenance and leadership experience to this dynamic role

• Based at Rio Tinto’s Yarwun Alumina Refinery working a family friendly 9-day fortnight

• Permanent employment which includes attractive salary, annual incentive program and a huge range of additional benefits which are designed to make your life better  

Where we’re all welcome 

We encourage women and Indigenous Peoples to apply, as we advance our business to more accurately reflect the world around us.

We acknowledge that all people are different and believe that our differences are our strength. The diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Superintendent Maintenance to join our team.

The scope of work you will be accountable for is challenging and diverse. Your demonstrated ability to engage, connect and positively influence key stakeholders at all organisational levels will play a critical part to the effectiveness in this role.

Reporting to the Manager, and working within a dynamic environment your key accountabilities of the role include, but are not limited to:

• Leading a highly skilled team of frontline leaders and maintenance personnel in fixed plant maintenance
• Undertaking major maintenance shut activities with contracting support, often managing high risk work.

• Demonstrating a commitment and passion to team safety

• An engaging and inspirational leader committed to building a positive and interdependent culture

• Implementing effective maintenance and asset management practices to help deliver asset performance priorities

• Coaching and developing the team to build individuals capabilities and competence

• Evaluate maintenance efficiency, identify problems, and recommend solutions

• Demonstrate our Rio Tinto values of Care, Courage, and Curiosity

About you

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

• Be proactive with a commitment in driving a safe and inclusive team culture

• The ability to engage and inspire and drive transformational change
• Engineering or equivalent trade qualified

• Experienced in maintenance and asset management practices with prior experience in leadership roles at Superintendent level

• Experience in risk management activities

• Confident in effectively leading, mentoring, and coaching team members as well as interfacing with senior leaders, with a desire to build and lead engaged teams

• A can-do pragmatic attitude with a structured approach to delivering strategic objectives

• A current Australian driver’s license
• Ability to navigate SAP would be helpful.

What we offer

• Be recognised for your contribution, you’re 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 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 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 including banking, accommodation, retail and more
• Domestic relocation assistance

Who we are 

Rio Tinto is a global leader in aluminium, one of the world’s most widely used metals.

Active in the sector for more than 110 years, today we operate large-scale, high-quality bauxite mines and alumina refineries, and have the world’s most modern and competitive aluminium smelter portfolio. 

Our Pacific Operations sites are located along the east coast of Australia, at the tip of the Northern Territory and in New Zealand’s south. With more than 6,000 employees, we operate a full value chain approach—mining, refining and smelting. Our portfolio includes four bauxite mines, two refineries, four smelters and one power station, and is supported by technical experts located in our Brisbane hub, including a fully operational Operations Centre for our bauxite mines.

As part of the Yarwun team, located in Gladstone, Queensland, the region is famous for fishing and boating. With Australia's most northerly surf beach, Agnes Water and Town of 1770, proximity to National Parks, laid back coastal villages and rural hinterland lifestyles, make it an attractive destination to live and work.

Applications close on 13th August 2024. Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date.

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