Superintendent Plant Shutdowns

Superintendent Plant Shutdown – Gudai-Darri

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We are looking for a Superintendent Plant Shutdown to join the fixed plant team at Gudai-Darri.

This is a great opportunity for a leader with great stakeholder engagement skills to lead a diverse team. Reporting to the Manager Fixed Plant you will be joining an experienced, stable and knowledgeable team of subject matter experts working in a challenging and exciting environment. You will be:

• A valued partner of the Fixed Plant leadership team
• Actively engaging and influencing the wider maintenance and operations teams to improve the site’s safety, cost and production outcomes.
• Widely engage and interface at all levels from general manager to supervisor level
• Seen as the subject matter expert for all shutdown related queries within fixed plant
• Liaising with contractors on a regular basis for the shutdown schedule and logistics
• Shaping new ways of working with digital tools to optimise the planning, scheduling and execution in near real-time

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself, your team and our contract partners
• Strong background in fixed plant shutdown maintenance
• Prior cost management knowledge
• Be an engaging leader who can engage, influence, coach and motivate both your immediate team but also your wider stakeholder group.
• Be resilient, proactive and pragmatic with the ability to drive progress and change within a dynamic environment.
• Input into strategies to get more operating time out of the asset through reliability centred maintenance
• Excellent communication skills
• Have leadership experience and be confident in leading, developing and coaching team members

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 will be working

Our $A3.6 billion Gudai-Darri iron ore mine is our most technologically advanced mine. In addition to leveraging technology already in use across Rio Tinto, such as autonomous trucks, trains and drills, Gudai-Darri also has more than 70 design innovations including a reclaimer with a rotable bucket wheel, a world class laboratory and in-field access to data and systems for all team members.

The Caterpillar mining fleet at Gudai-Darri includes autonomous trucks, production drills, and in a world first, autonomous water carts.

Located 110km north-west of Newman, Gudai-Darri will produce up to 43 million tonnes of iron ore a year in its first phase, contributing to our flagship product, the Pilbara Blend™. It will also become a production hub for our iron ore business, incorporating world class infrastructure and a 166-kilometre rail line connecting the mine to our existing network.

Gudai-Darri is creating jobs and business opportunities in Western Australia. More than 2,000 people have been employed as part of its construction with approximately 600 permanent operational roles created.

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 culture to support flexible working options
• 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)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

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 20 December 2022 however we do reserve the right to close the role earlier.