Supervisor Maintenance

Supervisor Maintenance - Residential

• Residential in Cape Lambert

• The perfect balance, our roster gives you more time for the things that are important in your life and to your family and community 

• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support

About the role

Join our team as a Maintenance Supervisor, where you'll lead a team of Maintenance Tradespersons in executing shutdown and weekly maintenance activities, while ensuring consistent application of safety and asset management processes. You'll play a crucial role in maintaining the reliability and safety of our assets.

You will lead, mentor, coach and develop the Shutdown Maintenance team, including providing regular performance feedback. Providing leadership to safely execute Maintenance activities at a site level, ensuring teams are set up for success to meet site performance objectives.

You’ll be part of a collaborative, high performing team, supported by your leader to grow and achieve your own personal goals as well as the goals of the team. You’ll work a 5D 5off: 4N 5off: 2D 3N 4off roster which will give you more time to spend on the things that are important to you and the people in your life. 

Key Responsibilities:

Reporting to the Maintenance Superintendent, you will:

• Manage and supervises a team of trade employees in the delivery of maintenance activities

• Ensure compliance to relative legislation, including statutory obligations, Rio Tinto standards, policies and procedures

• Appointment as Statutory Supervisor under WHS (Mines) Regulations 2022 with the functions as per Schedule 26

• Actively foster and communicate a positive safety culture to promote safety awareness and compliance, encouraging prioritisation of safety in all activities and operations

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by identifying, evaluating, and implementing improvement opportunities utilising a range of Rio Tinto best practices

• Contribute to an inclusive culture striving towards operational excellence

• Collaborate closely with other functions and stakeholders in the performance of duties

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Maintenance personnel

• Organise and manage the execution of Maintenance work performed

• Responsible for Maintenance training, safety compliance, scheduling, and productivity

• Manage Maintenance activities to maximise productivity, while minimising cost and environmental impact

• Develop and roll out daily work plans that are consistent with work schedules and operational priorities

• Manage key safety investigations, prepare reports and recommendations, and implement corrective and preventative actions

• Check notifications daily to determine clarity and accuracy, and liaise closely with the Planner and Scheduler to review new notifications and assign accountability

• Resolve on the job challenges (with regards to team cohesion, planned maintenance activities, maintenance shutdown schedules, etc.)

• Achieve safety and service performance as per targets and facilitate the achievement of direct report’s KPI's

• Monitor and measure team performance to ensure that safety, maintenance, and cost targets are met

• Manage equipment provided to the team in support of their activities and ensure appropriate allocation of resources to achieve planned outcomes

• Develop, review and update procedures and training documentation for all areas of work

• Assist the Superintendent Maintenance in delivering successful shutdown maintenance

What you’ll bring

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• Leadership experience and confidence in leading, developing, and coaching team members

• Knowledge of maintenance principles

• Contractor management experience

• An understanding of the work management process and principles, with a sound knowledge of shutdown and maintenance

• Relevant trade qualifications or Engineering degree

• Experience in bulk materials handling sector or related industry, particularly related to an operational work environment

• Computer literacy including Microsoft Office, SAP, Prometheus, & other information systems

• Effective planning and time management skills

• C Class driver's licence

• Frontline management qualification or similar will be well regarded

• A can-do attitude

• A continuous improvement and growth mindset

What we offer  

• Be recognised for your contribution, your critical 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 

• Full relocation provided to Western Australia from elsewhere in Australia 

• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive bonus 

• 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, cultural leave) 

• To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them 

• Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more

• Work on Country with a residential role which offers company housing and financial support with living expenses including rent and utilities (power and water).

Where you will be working

Our port facilities consist of four shipping terminals located on the Pilbara coast at Dampier and Cape Lambert which form an essential part of our logistics process. Each terminal has facilities for train unloading, iron ore stockpiling, product blending, reclaiming, and ship loading.

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.

Every Voice MattersAt 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.