Superintendent Projects

Projects Superintendent

• Great leadership opportunity with ongoing development
• Portfolio Management and Frontline leadership
• FIFO role, 5:2:4:3 roster

About the role:

We are seeking an engaging, safety and productivity focused Superintendent Projects to lead our onsite project delivery team based at Brockman. Reporting to the Manager Operational Readiness, 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 <$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 and commercial acumen, coupled with your technical knowledge to manage the portfolio of strategic turnkey solutions for Brockman.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.

About you:

• 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, 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

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’ll be working

Located 60km north-west of Tom Price, Brockman is wholly owned and operated by Rio Tinto. Opened in 2010, this open pit operation offers a family friendly fly in fly out roster with state-of-the-art camp facilities.

The Greater Brockman Operations consist of Brockman 2, Brockman 4, Nammuldi and Silvergrass. Driving the latest technological advancements, the open-pit mines offer an avenue for opportunity and career progression. 

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