Superintendent Water Treatment

Superintendent – Water Treatment

• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
• Great leadership opportunity to lead a project team in a challenging process environment
• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
• Culturally unique, coastal lifestyle based in Gove

About the role

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

We are looking for a Superintendent Water Treatment to manage our Gove water treatment operations and to be accountable for both operations and project activities. This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated individual to gain experience in leading an operational discipline and project delivery. You will be an experienced people leader with high-level influencing and stakeholder engagement skills. You will be supported and surrounded by other team oriented and results focussed leaders and have a passion to motivate and work with your team to achieve results.

Reporting to the Manager Gove Closure Operations and working in a challenging and exciting environment within the Closure Operations team, you will be:

• Leading teams in the Operations, Asset Management, Engineering, and Construction of Water Treatment Plant infrastructure.
• Managing critical risks associated with water treatment, water storage facilities and project activities and ensuring critical controls are in place.
• Developing annual operating budgets and delivery of capital and operational improvement projects.
• Setting and communicating targets and expectations aligned with Closure plan and team goals, as well as RT values.
• Leading, coaching, and mentoring employees and contractors to deliver on plan and build a high performing team.

What you will bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• An innovative Leader with a genuine and consistent focus on safety, inclusion, and setting up your team for success.
• Exposure to asset management principles, including reliability & defect elimination processes, maintenance strategies and maximisation of equipment run-times.
• Demonstrated previous experience in leading teams preferably at Superintendent level coupled with previous experience in managing the delivery of projects and an understanding of project controls.
• Strong influencing skills and ability to drive improvement
• Highly developed interpersonal written and verbal communication skills
• A water treatment or process management background with demonstrated site experience, and understanding of water treatment plant operations and concepts.
• Preference towards Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Process Engineering or similar

What we offer

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP)
• Access to top tier family-friendly health and medical programs
• Excellent retirement plan
• A comprehensive leave policy that covers all moments that matter in life (vacation/annual, paid parental leave, short term sick leave, paid holidays)
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program
• Domestic relocation assistance on offer
• Subsidised housing and utilities

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 will be working

Our Gove Operations have been supplying the global aluminium industry with world-class bauxite for more than 40 years. Located in Australia’s Northern Territory, each year the operation produces approximately 12 million tonnes of bauxite.

With a workforce of 460 people, daily activities include mine operations, maintenance, asset management, shutdown planning and execution, export operations, cultural heritage management, and closure activities following our decision to close the site’s alumina refinery and associated Residue Disposal Area in 2017. 

We expect our bauxite mining operations on the Gove Peninsula will cease in 2030 and we are undertaking significant work to support closure of the operation. We also recognise our operations take place on Indigenous-owned land, and we are committed to working together to achieve a positive future for Nhulunbuy and the Gove Peninsula post-mining.

Rio Tinto Closure (RTC) safely transforms Rio Tinto’s end of life mining, processing and infrastructure assets by developing innovative and sustainable solutions to leave a positive closure legacy. We collaborate with all parts of Rio Tinto to focus on maximizing post operational opportunities, de-risking and reducing the scale of closure liabilities and executing existing and near-term closures at optimal cost.

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 close on 28^th September 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.