Supervisor Fixed Plant
- Supportive team culture with a focus on inclusion, safety and work life balance
- Great role to consolidate your experience and develop towards management
- FIFO & Residential opportunities
About the role
We are seeking a motivated and engaging Supervisors Fixed Plant to lead our site-based Fixed Plant teams as part of our Pilbara Mine Operations.
You will be an inspiring role model and coach for positive behaviours, practices and processes, whilst providing leadership, development and support to your team, with the aim of driving consistent performance and innovation in relation to safety, cost and production.
Reporting to the Superintendent Fixed Plant, you will:
- Ensure safe operation of fixed plant equipment
- Monitor working practices and adherence to safety procedures to ensure safety of employees working in the area.
- Allocate and coordinate both planned and unplanned operational activities.
- Support, coach and mentor a team to ensure optimal delivery against performance and safety targets.
- Collaborate with stakeholders in the supply chain to ensure production targets are safely met.
- Champion continuous improvement by identifying and implementing changes to optimise work practices and provide technical solutions to improve plant performance.
What you’ll bring
- Experience in Fixed Plant operation within a similar environment.
- Proactive approach with a strong commitment in driving a safe working culture
- A passionate people leader who will influence, motivate and be confident in effectively leading, mentoring and coaching team members as well as interfacing with senior leaders
- A desire to build and lead engaged teams
- Demonstrated ability in meeting targets and bringing the team on a journey of continuous development
- A current valid driver's license
- AQF4 Statutory Supervisor Qualification (desirable)
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.
