Superintendent Onboarding & Compliance

Superintendent Supplier Onboarding & Compliance

• Permanent Full Time | huge range of additional benefits
• Ensuring our contractor workforce is effectively onboarded and maintaining compliance
• Perth based role | Irregular site travel required

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

The Contractor Management (CM) division within Rio Tinto Iron Ore, has been designed to improve how our operations partner with our contractors, who make up 50% of our workforce. Being a critical element of our labour team, this division is responsible to ensure our contractors are ready to work on site and go home safely at the end of every shift.

In this role you will ensure our suppliers meet the required standard to work effectively and safely on our operating sites. The role is responsible for onboarding suppliers efficiently and effectively, and for maintaining their compliance status in accordance with the RTIO contractor management standards.

In line with Rio Tinto's values, you will create a safe and inclusive workplace. Reporting to Manager Contractor Management Onboarding & Systems you will:

• Conduct supplier exposure reviews to understand the supplier risk profile
• Support suppliers in Avetta enrolment and offboarding
• Conduct supplier pre-engagement workshops
• Support suppliers in worker set up
• Support suppliers through initial engagement on site
• Support suppliers to maintain ongoing compliance
• Provide Avetta expertise to support problem/issue resolution
• Manage supplier exemptions
• Train/coach suppliers and site personnel in the use of Avetta
• Report on overall supplier compliance status

What you’ll bring

To be successful in this role you will demonstrate the following qualities:

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Demonstrated experience leading a team
• Sound auditing experience, preferably having undertaken audits of safety systems/processes in a mining environment
• Exposure to actively applying the 5 steps of contractor management within a Rio Tinto context highly regarded
• Understand the fundamentals of what is expected of suppliers working on our operational sites with exposure to RTIO operations highly regarded
• Outstanding verbal communication and influencing skills
• Highly organised with the ability to work with multiple stakeholder group at any given point
• Understanding of service delivery and continuousimprovement principles
• Ability to establish and maintain relationships with stakeholders to drive a culture of collaboration, participation and improvement
• Proven ability to assess and solve problems in a complex environment
• Exposure to actively applying the 5 steps of contractor management within Rio Tinto highly regarded

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Flexible working from home arrangements as per operational requirements
• 18 weeks of gender-neutral and equal paid parental leave, with continued superannuation contributions whilst employees are on unpaid or half paid parental leave
• 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 & 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); and
• Local relocation packages offered for Australian residents only

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

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own an integrated portfolio of iron ore assets: a world-class, integrated network of 16 mines, four independent port terminals, a 1,700 kilometre rail network and related infrastructure – all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand.

This role is based in Perth, at our head office in Central Park, and working Monday to Friday. We want you to have a great work/life balance, so the days, hours, location of work are flexible. Frequent travel (50% of your time) to the Pilbara is required to ensure ongoing and effective engagement with our frontline stakeholders (both RTIO and Suppliers).

We are one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of iron ore.

Every Voice Matters

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.

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.

Applications close on 31 January 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)