Superintendent Mobile Equipment Maintenance (MEM)

Superintendent Mobile Equipment Maintenance (MEM) – Residential in Pannawonica

• Be part of this inclusive and diverse team working with a supportive leadership group
• Bring your maintenance and safety leadership to this dynamic role
• Attractive residential 5:2/4:3 family roster living in Pannawonica
• Relocation assistance and housing provided

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs

About the role

We are looking for a Superintendent Mobile Equipment Maintenance (MEM) with mobile maintenance and safety leadership experience to strategically lead the Robe Valley MEM team to implement transformational change. This role is a great opportunity for a dynamic and inspirational leader to become an industry leader in the MEM safety and maintenance fields.

With a strong focus in development, growing is more than an opportunity – It is something we actively plan and make happen. In addition, our rosters are designed to help you live the lifestyle that is right for you and your family.

Reporting to the Robe Valley MEM Manager and working in a challenging, exciting environment you will be:

• Demonstrating a personal commitment and passion for safety, inclusion, and respect.
• An engaging and inspirational leader to transform the safety culture to become an interdependent culture.
• Fostering a culture of both step-change transformation as well as continuous improvement as part of our Rio Tinto Safety Production System.
• Experienced in Mobile Maintenance with prior maintenance execution, planning, scheduling, and engineering leadership experience.

In addition to the above, this role will provide regular site leadership coverage and support all departments across site offering the successful candidate exposure to a variety of work fronts.

What you’ll bring

• A passion for your people development and genuine care for their safety and wellbeing
• Advocate for an inclusive and respectful culture
• The ability to engage and inspire and drive transformational change
• 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
• It will be advantageous if you are suitably qualified or come from a trade or engineering background with previous industry experience.
• A current Australian driver's license (Manual)

What we offer

• An exciting opportunity to be part of something big and unique in the Iron Ore industry
• A work environment where safety is a value, not just a priority
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience inclusive of an 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 mental 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 in the scenic Pilbara region and close to the major centre of Karratha, the vibrant town of Pannawonica offers a sought-after lifestyle and affordable living in comfortable subsidised housing.

This is a great opportunity for you and your family to contribute to a unique community and enjoy a wide range of seasonal outdoor activities; allowing you to find the perfect balance between leisure and work. From the popular annual rodeo event to other regular social and cultural activities, local residents can make the most of modern amenities.

The town of Pannawonica is supported by a resident doctor, an excellent primary school with options to undertake secondary school studies in a supervised distance education program, supermarket, and a local community gym and youth centre. 

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 for this role will close on Friday, 23rd June 2023, however we do reserve the right to close the role earlier.