Superintendent Fixed Plant
- The perfect balance, our roster gives you more time for the things that are important in your life and to your family and community
- Fantastic opportunity to further develop your leadership capability
- Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
About the role
We are looking for Superintendents Fixed Plant to join our leadership team across our Pilbara Mine Operations. You’ll lead a highly capable team and deliver cost-effective asset performance, through execution of asset health assessment, maintenance engineering, planning, scheduling and shut down coordination.
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 fly in, fly out roster 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 Manager Fixed Plant, you will:
- 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
- Collaborate closely with other functions and stakeholders in the performance of duties
- Lead, coach and develop a team of Fixed Plant Maintenance personnel
- Manage Fixed Plant Maintenance activities to maximise productivity while minimising cost and environmental impact
- Provide quality control on maintenance process, including reviewing the 5 whys process completed by direct reports
- Work closely with the planning and scheduling teams to ensure effective maintenance
- Ensure maintenance activities are carried out safely, according to plan and cost effectively
- Manage a budget and ensure capital and operating funds are allocated correctly within Plant Maintenance and promote a high level of cost awareness
What you’ll bring
- A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
- Respect for others and an all-inclusive mindset
- Demonstrated capability in coaching, leading change and effective decision making
- Knowledge of fixed plant maintenance operations
- Experience in contributing to the development of a safety culture and ensuring relevant safety compliance as well as adherence to standards, processes and procedures for fixed plant operations
- Coaching, leading change, effective decision making
- Demonstrate understanding of budget preparation, variance analysis, cost forecasting and cost drivers.
If you are excited about the role and think you have what it takes but your experience doesn't align 100% we still want to hear from you.
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 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.
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.
Where you’ll be working
In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own a world-class, integrated network of 18 mines, 4 independent port terminals, a rail network spanning nearly 2,000 kilometres and related infrastructure – all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand. We are one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of iron ore.
Applications close on 24th of August 2025 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)
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 situations and meet opportunities.
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.