Supervisor Mobile Equipment Maintenance

Rio Tinto

Posted on:  16th May 2025

Supervisor Mobile Equipment Maintenance

  • Take the next steps in your leadership journey with a company that is committed to your growth and development

  • Flexibility for the lifestyle you want - FIFO opportunities from Perth, Busselton, Geraldton or Albany

  • 8:6/7:7 Rosters – FIFO and residential opportunities available

We encourage women and Indigenous Peoples to apply, as we advance our business to more accurately reflect the world around us.

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs

There are opportunities for Supervisor Mobile Equipment Maintenance across Rio Tinto's Pilbara Mine Operations. In this role you will provide leadership to your team and actively promote safety awareness and safe work practices, with the aim of driving consistent performance, and innovation in relation to safety, cost, and production.

These opportunities are perfectly suited to enthusiastic individuals who are seeking a rewarding frontline leadership role, working with a great team to maintain heavy mobile equipment.

You’ll be part of a friendly team, supported by your leader to grow and achieve your own personal goals as well as the goals of the team. You’ll work on a 8 days on, 6 days off, 7 nights on, 7 days off, which will give you more time to spend on the things that are important to you and the people in your life. 

Reporting to the Superintendent Mobile Equipment Maintenance your key accountabilities will include but not be limited to:

  • Being an inspiring role model and coach for positive behaviours, practices, and processes

  • Providing safety and technical leadership, mentoring and guidance to your team of trade and non-trade personnel, understanding their strengths in work to ensure that safety is first and that the correct work is completed

  • Completing daily inspections of all work areas and regular on the job interactions with the team to develop a safe and efficient work culture

  • Allocating and coordinating planned maintenance activities using the Rio Tinto workflow management principles

  • Prioritising and managing breakdowns with the mine production team

  • Driving continuous improvement projects circulating around cost saving and production efficiency

What you’ll bring

  • A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

  • Leadership experience and a proven track record of success with leading, developing, and coaching team members

  • Computer literacy and proficiency in the suite of Microsoft packages such as Outlook, Excel, and Word

  • A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

  • Respect for others and an all-inclusive mindset

  • A current Australian manual (C Class) driver's license

  • Relevant experience within Mining and/or Mobile Equipment Maintenance

If you are excited about this role and think you have what it takes but your experience doesn't align 100% we still want to hear from you.

We are committed to promoting diversity within Rio Tinto and as a special measure to we strongly encourage women to apply.

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

  • 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

Where you’ll be working

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own an integrated portfolio of iron ore assets: a world-class, integrated network of 17 mines, four independent port terminals, a 2,000-kilometre rail network and related infrastructure – all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand. 

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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.

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.

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