Superintendent Water Treatment

Superintendent – Water Treatment

• Play a key role in meeting closure requirements and have autonomy to meet and exceed deliverables
• Apply your skills and knowledge to solve unique Water Treatment Management and challenges for our closures site
• Great leadership opportunity with a mixture of people leadership and application of technical expertise

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

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 focused leaders who 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, and maintenance 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 the Superintendent level coupled with previous experience in managing the delivery of projects and an understanding of project controls.
• 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 Process Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or similar

About Rio Tinto

Rio 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 and meet opportunities.

What we offer

• Domestic relocation assistance
• Remote area allowance (25% of base salary)
• Remote area holiday travel assistance
• Heavily subsidised housing and utilities
• 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)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

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.

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.