Superintendent Shut Maintenance

Superintendent HME Shutdowns (EPST)

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
• FIFO opportunity for consideration, working 5:2 | 4:3 roster (Perth Based)

About the role

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

We are looking for a Superintendent HME Shutdowns (East Pilbara Shutdown Team) to provide positive leadership and strategic direction to a multidisciplinary team accountable for the safe execution of excavator and loader shuts for the East Pilbara.

This role presents a fantastic opportunity to draw on your people leadership skills, harnessed with your technical expertise to positively develop and support your team, whilst fostering an inclusive and positive team culture.

Reporting to the Manager Maintenance and working in a collaborative and diverse team within the West Angelas Maintenance Department, you will:

• Be a passionate safety leader who demonstrates commitment to creating a respectful, inclusive and diverse team environment
• Cultivate a high performing work environment through effectively leading, mentoring and coaching team members
• Improve function and reliability of facility systems and associated equipment by studying performance results, identifying, recommending, and implementing changes
• Be a valued partner as you build close relationships with our multiple stakeholders to deliver focussed solutions
• Lead the focus on sustaining a strong safety culture throughout the team
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, supporting the team in the implementation of improvement initiatives and technical advances

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Leadership experience and confidence in leading, developing and coaching team members
• Demonstrated ability in meeting targets and bringing the team on a journey of continuous development
• Understanding of maintenance strategies and philosophies
• Knowledge & technical expertise for mobile equipment
• Works from a strategic approach, ability to work with a continuous improvement mindset including challenging the status quo
• Well-developed stakeholder engagement, leadership and facilitation skills
• A current driver’s license

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• 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 and salary packaging options
• Career development and 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 will be working

Located 110km west of Newman, West Angelas operates on a fly in fly out roster from Perth, Broome and Busselton.

West Angelas is a pioneer in autonomous technologies – we were the first site to trial autonomous haul trucks and incorporate autonomous drilling into our operations in 2008, and we continue to have one of the largest mining fleets in the Pilbara.

Our high grade, low phosphorous Marra Mamba orebody is an integral part of the Pilbara Blend, contributing both lump and fines products on around four trains each day. At the West Angelas hub there are state-of-the-art power generation and refueling facilities. These facilities supply power and diesel fuel to the East Pilbara mine sites.

The future is bright at West Angelas with ongoing growth projects at Deposits C and D, as well as additional deposits under study providing enormous opportunities for personal development and career growth.

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins witha 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. 

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.

If this sounds like your next career path, then apply today!

Applications close on 30 October 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)