Team Leader - Whiteside Maintenance

Team Leader – Whiteside Maintenance

• A challenging and rewarding leadership role where you can put your problem-solving skills to the test
• Permanent, residential role in Gladstone with a huge range of additional benefits (this is NOT a FIFO role)
• Dayshift lifestyle roster

About the role

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

We are looking for a Team Leader to guide, mentor and lead the Whiteside Maintenance team which includes a team of Mechanical and Electrical trades people and apprentices to ensure safety, people and production targets are met.

Leading on the frontline is one of the most important jobs in our business and comes with a huge amount of responsibility. We need you to motivate, inspire and keep your people safe and well.

With signature leadership training programmes, growing and developing is more than an opportunity – it is something we actively plan and make happen. Every day our leaders grow, while our rosters are designed to help you live the lifestyle that is right for you and your family.

This is a great opportunity for a people leader, who has a strong focus on safety and driving cultural change. Reporting to the Superintendent, you will be:

• Providing visible leadership and driving the safety culture through daily safety rituals like daily toolbox meeting, safety interactions and field verifications on team members;
• Continually developing and upskilling team members;
• Participating in the measuring, analysing and recommendation of process improvements;
• Leading by example, communicating effectively and ensuring values of the business are adhered to;
• Coordinating all maintenance activities through efficient use of resources

• Working closely with maintenance team leaders in all areas of the refinery to ensure communication of equipment risks are clear.

What you will bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Leadership experience within an industrial environment
• A trade background would be advantageous
• Ability to work with and lead a diverse workforce
• Strong communication skills along with the ability to work in a team environment
• Commitment to “The way we work” and living our values
• Ability to prioritise and make sound decisions
• Computer literacy, including exposure to Microsoft Word, Excel, SAP

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
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

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’ll be working

With production beginning in 2004 at our Yarwun alumina refinery, located approximately 10 kilometres north-west of Gladstone in Central Queensland, today the operation produces more than three million tonnes of alumina per year.

Around 700 people support the operation, with an additional 350 contractors on site each year as part of scheduled maintenance shutdown activities. Thanks to its ‘Industry 4.0’ focus, Yarwun is also a leader in trialling new technologies to improve operations on site, including 3D printing, robotics and drones in confined spaces, and is home to Rio Tinto’s innovative Queensland Research and Development Centre (QRDC).

Along with Boyne Smelters Limited and Queensland Alumina Limited, our Yarwun Operation supports the local community in a wide range of initiatives through Here for Gladstone.

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.