Superintendent Operations

About the role

• Leadership role at a key port within the Rio Tinto Iron Ore portfolio

• Career advancement opportunity

• Residential role at a great coastal location - Karratha/Dampier

We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and experienced Superintendent Operations to lead the Dampier Operations team, fostering a strong, positive culture while driving operational excellence and ensuring optimal performance.

As a strong people leader, reporting to the Manager, Operations Dampier you will;

• Execute your budget to meet volume and quality objectives

• Foster and communicate a positive safety culture: Promote safety awareness and ensure compliance in all operations. Lead by example to prioritize safety in all activities.

• Drive continuous improvement: Identify and implement improvement opportunities using Rio Tinto best practices to enhance efficiency and operational performance.

• Lead, coach, and develop a team: Provide guidance and support to team members, fostering a performance-driven culture while focusing on professional development.

• Oversee training, safety compliance, scheduling, and productivity: Manage plant operations training, ensure safety compliance, and optimize scheduling to meet productivity goals.

• Define staffing and development needs: Assess staffing requirements for Plant Operations and implement strategies for talent development and retention.

• Engage with key stakeholders to deliver objectives that best support our integrated system

• Ensure compliance with legislation and obligations: Ensure adherence to industry legislation and regulatory requirements, maintaining full compliance in all operations.

What you’ll bring

We're seeking a passionate leader who excels at providing authentic, positive people leadership and serves as a natural role model in fostering a curious mindset. The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of safe operations and behavior fundamentals, the ability to work well under pressure while meeting multiple deadlines, and a demonstrated understanding of Planning horizons and integration.

We’re looking for someone with a strategic mindset, process-driven approach, and a strong mechanical aptitude. Additionally, experience navigating recent changes in Work Health and Safety (WHS) to support supervisors through these transitions is highly regarded.

With safety at the forefront of everything you do, we will empower and support you to achieve excellence. We’ll also provide opportunities for professional development, to learn from others and freely share your ideas.

What we offer

• 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

• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto

• Full relocation provided to Western Australia from elsewhere in Australia

• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive bonus

• 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, cultural leave)

• Work on Country with a residential role which offers company housing and financial support with living expenses including rent and utilities (power and water). This role also comes with a vehicle for site access and use.

• To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them

• Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more.

Where you will be working

Our four independent shipping terminals at two locations, Cape Lambert and Dampier, are managed as a single port system. Each terminal has facilities for train unloading, product stockpiling and blending, and ship loading. This role is located in Dampier, within the Pilbara region of Western Australia with most team members living in nearby Karratha.

About Rio TintoRio 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 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 situations and meet opportunities.

Every Voice MattersAt 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.