Superintendent Plant Maintenance

Superintendent Fixed Plant Maintenance – Gudai Darri

• Join our newest operation Gudai-Darri
• Manage multi-disciplined and high-performance teams
• 5:2 4:3 roster FIFO Perth

About the role

We are seeking a motivated and engaging Superintendent Fixed Plant Maintenance to lead a highly capable team and deliver cost-effective asset performance, through execution of asset health assessment, maintenance execution, and shut down coordination.

This role represents a fantastic opportunity to leverage your people leadership skills and technical knowledge, to not only deliver best-in-class maintenance outcomes, but also fostering an inclusive and supportive culture to positively develop your team.

The scope of work is as challenging as it is diverse. Gudai-Darri are currently at commissioning stage of their brand new plant. This is an excellent opportunity and a great time to join the team. Your focus will include but not be limited to:

• Leading the focus on sustaining and improving a strong safety culture throughout the site
• Leading, developing and coaching a multi-disciplined team of professionals and maintenance staff
• Identifying and managing asset risk, ensuring the right work is completed to maintain operational targets
• Ensuring that the fixed plant maintenance function is delivered in line with Rio Tinto best practice to maximise productivity and equipment reliability
• Fostering a culture of continuous improvement, supporting the team in the implementation of improvement initiatives and technical advances
• Developing and controlling approved budget to deliver cost effective services that meet the business needs while ensuring compliance with the relevant statutory legislative provision

For nearly 150 years, we have been producing materials essential to human progress – minerals and metals that are still part of everyday life, including the iron ore that shapes the skylines of cities around the world.

Next comes Gudai-Darri, a place that brings together everything we have learned to create a technically advanced iron ore mine – a new mine shaping new ways of working.

At Gudai-Darri your voice matters. We are building a new generation mine with a family of talented people at its heart. This is your opportunity to be contribute at the pioneering edge of mining.

About you

To be successful in this role, you will;

• Be committed to ensuring the safety of yourself and your team
• Be Driven to create a respectful, inclusive and diverse work environment
• Demonstrated experience with a reliability centred maintenance approach
• Have maintenance execution experience across either Fixed Plant (Wet & Dry plants) or MEM
• Be a passionate people leader, able to develop, motivate, and mentor team members
• Have excellent stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to lead through influence
• Have highly developed problem-solving abilities, in complex delivery environments
• Be flexible and agile, ready to change tack and adjust priorities in response to operational needs

It will also be beneficial if you have: 

• Experience with continuous improvement and change management processes
• Experience managing technical, diverse and outcomes-focussed teams
• Prior commission experience
• Experience working in dynamic, large-scale supply chain environments

Come join the team and enjoy some great benefits we have to offer:

• 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 and 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 (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more) 

Creating an inclusive and diverse workforce

We are a diverse team of talented, enthusiastic individuals who foster a culture of inclusion. No matter how they may differ, our people share one thing in common. We all have something to contribute, and it’s this contribution that makes for a great organization and fulfilling career.

Ready to experience something unique? Come work with us.

Applications close on Sunday 22^nd May 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)