Superintendent Plant Shutdown

Superintendent Plant Shutdown – Hope Downs

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
• 5,2,4,3 FIFO roster with flexibility from Perth or Busselton

About the role
Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.
We are looking for a Superintendent Plant Shutdown to join the fixed plant team at Hope Downs.
This is a great opportunity for a leader with great stakeholder engagement skills to lead a diverse and high performing team. Reporting to the Manager Fixed Plant you will be joining an experienced, stable and knowledgeable team of subject matter experts. Working in a challenging and exciting environment you will be:

• A valued partner of the Fixed Plant leadership team
• Actively engaging and influencing the wider maintenance and operations teams to improve the site’s safety, cost and production outcomes.
• Widely engage and interface at all levels from general manager to supervisor level
• Seen as the subject matter expert for all shutdown related queries within fixed plant
• Liaising with contractors on a regular basis for the shutdown schedule and logistics
• Shaping new ways of working with digital tools to optimise the planning, scheduling and execution in near real-time

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself, your team and our contract partners
• Strong background in fixed Plant Shutdown or maintenance
• Prior cost management knowledge
• Be an engaging leader who can engage, influence, coach and motivate both your immediate team but also your wider stakeholder group.
• Be resilient, proactive and pragmatic with the ability to drive progress and change within a dynamic environment.
• Input into strategies to get more operating time out of the asset through reliability centred maintenance
• Excellent communication skills
• Have leadership experience and be confident in leading, developing and coaching team members

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.
Where you will be working
Located 100km north-west of Newman, Hope Downs 1 is a joint venture managed and operated by Rio Tinto, working in conjunction with nearby site Hope Downs 4. Hope Downs 1 provides exceptional career growth and opportunities and the village provides excellent facilities for its FIFO workers.
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 culture to support flexible working options
• 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

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.
Applications for this role will close on 17th January however we do reserve the right to close the role earlier.