Superintendent Project Delivery - Pannawonica

Superintendent Project Delivery - Pannawonica

We encourage women and Indigenous Peoples to apply, as we advance our business to more accurately reflect the world around us.

• Elevate your career with the support of a committed leadership team within Sustaining Capital

• A truly collaborative role to drive safety excellence and positive engagement

• Residential Opportunities | Housing + relocation packages available to suit you and your family!

• Work locally, or FIFO from Perth on 5 days on, 2 days off / 4 days on, 3 days off roster

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are seeking an engaging, safety and productivity focused Superintendent Projects to lead our onsite project delivery team based at our Pannawonica operations. Reporting to the Manager Fixed Plant, this role has strong business exposure. This is a great opportunity to showcase your influencing and stakeholder engagement skills.

You will be responsible for executing divisional capital projects mostly <$2m to enhance productivity, safety, asset reliability and meet anticipated project demand in alignment with Rio Tinto standards, while maintaining compliance with relevant legislative and statutory requirements.

This role presents a fantastic opportunity to draw on your people leadership skills, project management and commercial acumen, coupled with your technical knowledge to manage the portfolio of strategic turnkey solutions for Pannawonica.

This role will suit a proficient leader, who has experience working in project leadership roles, with the ability to effectively lead, mentor and coach team members, business partners, contract partners and senior leaders.

What you will bring

• Bring a commitment to the safety of yourself and your team as the number one priority

• Possess tertiary level qualifications in Project Management, Engineering or similar

• Have solid multi discipline portfolio management experience, with the ability to define and implement project improvement initiatives to maximise capital efficiency

• Demonstrated experience in project management, contractor management, project execution and project controls

• Capable to manage a team delivering projects from early phases to close-out

• Ability to work with diverse teams and manage multiple programs of change / continuous improvement activities

• Experience with evaluation studies for potential and identified projects including leading of scoping, feasibility and engineering studies that assists the company to achieve production targets

• Previous exposure with project management of approved site capital projects utilising a formal project management framework

What we offer  

• Be recognised for your contribution, you’re 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).

• 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.

We are committed to elevating Indigenous voices and increasing cultural knowledge in our business. Diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together.  To help you on your journey with us, you’ll also have access to:

• Specialist Indigenous Support Advisors are always there for our Indigenous employees and available to support through any aspect of your employment

• Dedicated Indigenous Talent Programme for our Operators and Tradespersons and entry level operational roles. This programme is designed to create long term sustainable careers for our Indigenous Employees to grow into leadership or technical pathways to ensure you have every opportunity to grow your career.

• Indigenous leadership programmes across some professional and operational roles to ensure that we are developing Indigenous Leaders.

Where you’ll be working

Located in the scenic Pilbara region and close to the major centre of Karratha, the vibrant town offers a sought-after lifestyle and affordable living in comfortable subsidised housing.

This is a great opportunity for you and your family to contribute to a unique community and enjoy a wide range of seasonal outdoor activities; allowing you to find the perfect balance between leisure and work. From the popular annual rodeo event to other regular social and cultural activities, local residents can make the most of modern amenities.

The town of Pannawonica is supported by a resident doctor, an excellent primary school with options to undertake secondary school studies in a supervised distance education program, supermarket, and a local community gym and youth centre.

Roles exist for FIFO from Perth only, or Residential to Pannawonica.

Applications close on the 14th of March 2025 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

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.