Superintendent Train Control

Superintendent Train Control

• Significant operational leadership role
• Fantastic career advancement opportunity
• Perth based role from our State of the Art Operations Centre – Perth Airport

About the Role

We are looking for a Superintendent Train Control to lead the Train Control team based at our Operation Centre situated on Noongar Country. Responsible for ensuring the safe and productive movement of trains across the world’s first fully autonomous heavy haul railway.

This role is an excellent opportunity to join an evolving team focused on building a collaborative, empowered and diverse workforce, as well as a fantastic opportunity to progress your career in a large operational leadership capacity. You will be encouraged to embrace and adopt new technology and operational improvements to unlock improvements in safety and productivity while providing coaching and development to frontline leaders and team members.

Where you will be working

This role is being offered in Perth based out of our Operations Centre, near the Perth Airport. Our privately owned and operated rail network is an essential part of our integrated production network.

Reporting to the Manager Rail Logistics & Optimisation you will:

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, supporting the team in the implementation of improvement initiatives, competency training and technical advances
• Focus on improving culture and engagement
• Collaborate with stakeholders at all levels across Rio Tinto Iron Ore
• Ensure compliance with safety standards and procedures
• Use data and information to support decision making
• Support ongoing development of team members
• Lead safety investigations, manage relevant actions
• Ensuring teams are competent to safely operate and support our rail operations
• Managing operating budgets to achieve business outcomes
• Supporting the critical interface aspects across the rail, mine and port networks

About You

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• Experience managing large operational teams
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Demonstrated experience in evolving an inclusive and engaged workforce
• Demonstrated previous operating experience in Rail, Supply Chain & Logistics or bulk materials handling environment
• Exposure to financial management and operational budgets
• Incident investigations (e.g. Essential Factors or ICAM) skills

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Tertiary qualification in Logistics and Supply Change Management or a business discipline
• Business improvement experience
• Experience in project management
• Formal frontline leadership qualifications

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
• 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)

Where you will be working

Our state-of-the-art Operations Centre (OC) is located near the Perth domestic airport. The control room operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to coordinate our integrated network of mines, rail, power and ports.

We operate 200 locomotives on more than 1,700 kilometres of track in the Pilbara, transporting ore from 16 mines to four port terminals. The average return distance of these trains is about 800 kilometres with the average journey cycle, including loading and dumping, taking approximately 40 hours

Our network is the largest privately owned and operated heavy haul rail system in Australia, and as we focus on the future, our vision is to become the greatest heavy haul railway in the world

 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. 

Every Voice Matters

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.

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.

Please note, to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening requirements include a Category One Work Health Assessment and reside in WA.