Superintendent Shift Maintenance

Superintendent Shift Maintenance - Dampier

About the role

•            Leadership role at a key port within the Rio Tinto Iron Ore portfolio

•            Career advancement opportunity

•            Residential role at a great coastal location - Karratha/Dampier

We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and experienced Superintendent Shift Maintenance to lead the Dampier Maintenance team, fostering a strong, positive culture while driving operational excellence and ensuring optimal performance.

As a people leader, you will be instrumental in cultivating a high-performing team, while safely delivering cost-effective asset performance through leading the Shift Maintenance and Asset Health teams to identify and manage asset risk, ensuring the right work is completed to maintain plant integrity and operational performance across our fixed plant and balance machines.

Working Monday to Friday on a 5/2 4/3 roster reporting to the Manager Maintenance Dampier, you will be:

• Leading the focus on sustaining and improving a strong safety culture throughout the site

• Coaching and developing a team of highly skilled trade and technical team members.

• Ensuring that the maintenance planning 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, monitoring and controlling approved budget to deliver cost effective services that meet the business needs while ensuring compliance with the relevant statutory legislative provisions

What you’ll bring

We're looking for someone who is passionate about providing authentic and positive people leadership and a natural role model at cultivating a curious mind. You will have a strong understanding of safe operations and safe behavior fundamentals, work well under pressure while maintaining the ability to meet multiple deadlines along with demonstrated understanding of maintenance system processes.

With safety at the forefront of everything you do, we will empower and support you to achieve excellence. We’ll also provide opportunities for professional development, to learn from others and freely share your ideas.

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 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.

Where you will be working

Rio Tinto's Dampier Port is a strategic location in the Pilbara for delivering  up to 160Mt of iron ore to our seaborne customers via train unloading, product stockpiling, blending and ship loading operations. Employees reside locally within the city of Karratha.

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.