AddressSuperintendent Maintenance Engineering
We encourage women and Indigenous Peoples to apply, as we advance our business to more accurately reflect the world around us.
- Opportunity to extend your experience and advance your professional leadership career
- Showcase your passion for achieving engineering excellence leading projects to optimise and improve our asset performance
- Work collaboratively across a wide range of stakeholder groups to deliver improvement initiatives
- Dampier or Karratha based residential role on 5 days on; 2 days off / 4 days on; 3 days off roster – Housing and relocation provided
Where we’re all welcome
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 who we are.
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 acknowledge that all people are different and believe that our differences are our strength. The diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together.
About the role
Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.
We are looking for an inspiring and passionate Superintendent Maintenance Engineering to join our maintenance team at Dampier Ports.
In this key leadership role, you will oversee a team focused on the implementation of engineering solutions for site defects to improve plant reliability, increase plant throughput and ensure the safe operation of assets. Based at one of the largest bulk cargo port terminals in Australia, you will provide leadership, technical direction, and engineering support throughout project lifecycle and provide expert advice across maintenance and reliability engineering processes.
Your enthusiastic approach coupled with your effective communication and leadership skills will see you lead a team of highly motivated of engineers and asset health professionals. You’ll have the ability to steer engineering fundamentals to improve business performance and deliver high value outcomes while providing coaching and mentoring support to your team. We’re looking for you to bring diversity of thought and experience so we welcome experience from any industry. In this team you must help make work fun!
Reporting to the Maintenance Manager, you will:
- Coach, guide and mentor a team of engineering professionals
- Provide technical advice to the maintenance and operations teams and connect our central asset specialists to our site operations
- Lead and manage important site improvement projects to optimise plant reliability, availability and maintainability
- Provide engineering assistance for procurement of new assets / components
- Manage change management processes relating to fixed plant and marine maintenance activities
- Identify, generate and report on plant changes and improvement initiatives
- Lead and support failure investigations and plant performance analysis
What you’ll bring
- Tertiary qualifications in Engineering with demonstrated experience in an operations, maintenance, engineering or reliability role
- Experience leading a team
- Project management skills with experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously, including project scoping, planning, execution and contractor management
- Knowledge of relevant Australian standards, regulations, acts and codes of practice
- A strong focus towards safety and safe work practices
- Experience in equipment failure investigation using root cause analysis techniques
- C Class Driver’s Licence
- MSIC card or the ability to obtain one will be advantageous
What we offer
- Be recognised for your contribution, you’re 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)
- Work on Country with a residential role which offers company housing and financial support with living expenses including rent and utilities (power and water).
- 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.
We are committed to elevating Indigenous voices and increasing cultural knowledge in our business. Diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together. To help you on your journey with us, you’ll also have access to:
- Specialist Indigenous Support Advisors are always there for our Indigenous employees and available to support through any aspect of your employment
- Dedicated Indigenous Talent Programme for our Operators and Tradespersons and entry level operational roles. This programme is designed to create long term sustainable careers for our Indigenous Employees to grow into leadership or technical pathways to ensure you have every opportunity to grow your career.
- Indigenous leadership programmes across some professional and operational roles to ensure that we are developing Indigenous Leaders.
Who we are
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.
Where you’ll 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 and ship loading.
The successful candidate will be required to live residentially in Dampier or Karratha township.
You will just love that sea change and everything our beautiful WA coastline has to offer.
Applications close on Wednesday the 19th of June 2024 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).
