Superintendent Plant Maintenance

Superintendent Fixed Plant Maintenance – Tom Price

• Develop your operational leadership capability
• Manage multi-disciplined and high-performance teams
• Fantastic residential opportunity, 5/2/4/3 roster

About the role

We are seeking a motivated and engaging Superintendent Fixed Plant Maintenance to lead a highly capable team and deliver safe, cost-effective asset performance, through execution of planned maintenance and shut down coordination. In this role you will be accountable for the high-grade processing assets, stockyard (including balanced machines) and train load out facilities at Tom Price.

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.

Working on a family-friendly, 5/2/4/3 residential roster, you will have a supportive leader who will not only set you up for success in this role but will continue to work with you to develop your career aspirations. Reporting to the Fixed Plant Manager you will,

• Actively foster and communicate a positive safety culture to promote safety awareness and compliance, encouraging prioritisation of safety in all activities and operations
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by identifying, evaluating and implementing improvement opportunities utilising a range of Rio Tinto best practices
• Collaborate closely with other functions and stakeholders in the performance of duties
• Lead, coach and develop a team of Fixed Plant Maintenance personnel
• Organise, prepare and execute major, total plant shutdowns
• Manage Fixed Plant Maintenance activities to maximise productivity while minimising cost and environmental impact
• Provide quality control on maintenance process, including reviewing the 5 whys process completed by direct reports
• Work closely with the planning and scheduling teams to ensure effective maintenance
• Ensure maintenance activities are carried out safely, according to plan and cost effectively
• Manage a budget and ensure capital and operating funds are allocated correctly

within Plant Maintenance and promote a high level of cost awareness

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Demonstrated capability in coaching, leading change and effective decision making
• Knowledge of fixed plant maintenance operations
• Experience in contributing to the development of a safety culture and ensuring relevant safety compliance as well as adherence to standards, processes and procedures for fixed plant operations
• Coaching, leading change, effective decision making
• Demonstrate understanding of budget preparation, variance analysis, cost forecasting and cost drivers.

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
• Domestic relocation assistance and heavily subsidised housing
• 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 & 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)

Where you’ll be working

Tom Price is located in the central Pilbara, west of Karijini National Park and is our original Pilbara mine, currently employing residential and fly in fly out employees. It is known as one of the most attractive towns in the Pilbara with a high school, two primary schools a hospital and a high standard of recreational facilities.

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.