Superintendent Supply Chain

Superintendent Supply Chain – Brisbane              

• Exciting opportunity to join a global organisation at the forefront of mining
• Excellent work environment where people are valued and respected
• Great work life balance, so you can spend more time on the things that are important to you outside of work
• Attractive salary, annual incentive program and a huge range of employee benefits and discounts designed to make life better
• Permanent full-time opportunity based in Brisbane with occasional travel

About the role

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

Join Rio Tinto as the Superintendent Supply Chain – Brisbane, leading a high-performing team of specialists and schedulers to optimsie stockpile inventory, product grade conformance, and shipping schedules across the Pacific Operations bauxite mines.

Reporting to the Operations Centre Manager, within Rio Tinto Aluminium, you will play a critical role in ensuring supply chain efficiency and customer satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive an integrated, system-wide approach to managing the bauxite supply chain, minimising demurrage and meeting customer quality specifications.
• Develop and implement best-practice solutions that enable value-based trade-off decisions in response to unplanned events impacting supply.
• Collaborate with commercial, operations, technical, and operational excellence teams to deliver continuous efficiency and value improvements.
• Utilise advanced data and systems to optimize long term performance of stockpiles and ports.
• Promote safety awareness and environmentally responsible work practices, ensuring compliance with Rio Tinto safety standards and legislation.
• Influence key stakeholders to align with strategic objectives.
• Coach and develop your team, expanding their capabilities and fostering a culture of excellence.
• Align work practices with Rio Tinto Safe Production System to achieve Best Operator status

 About you

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Experience leading multi-disciplined specialist teams
• Knowledge and experience working in the mining sector
• Proficiency with data driven decision making
• Experience in managing complex and diverse stakeholder relationships
• Passion for identifying and implementing improvement initiatives
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management or a related field.

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• 18 weeks of gender-neutral and equal paid parental leave, with continued superannuation contributions whilst employees are on unpaid or half paid parental leave
• 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); and
• Local relocation packages offered for Australian residents only
• Experience working in dynamic, large-scale supply chain environments
• Fostering and developing strong, collaborative working relationships
• Commerce or operational finance experience
• A tertiary qualification in a relevant or transferrable discipline

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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.

Respect and InclusionAt 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.