Superintendent Plant Shutdown - Paraburdoo
We encourage women and Indigenous Peoples to apply, as we advance our business to more accurately reflect the world around us.
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Fantastic opportunity to join a friendly and motivated team who are passionate about achieving results as a collective
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Flexibility for the lifestyle you want - Fly in; fly out from Perth or live residentially in Paraburdoo
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Permanent employment which includes attractive salary, annual bonuses and a huge range of additional benefits which are designed to make your life better
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
We are looking for a Superintendent Plant Shutdown to join our Fixed Plant team at our Paraburdoo operations. Your role will ensure the team is set up for success against business priorities and the seamless safe delivery of operational activities. You will be supported in your efforts in continually seeking to improve our processes, cost efficiency and productive capability across the operation.
You’ll be part of a friendly and motivated 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 a 5 days on, 2 days off, 4 days on, 3 days off roster either residentially in Paraburdoo or Fly in, Fly out from Perth. These opportunities will give you more time to spend on the things that are important to you and the people in your life.
This is a great opportunity for a technically minded individual who has the passion for fixed plant who is seeking to further develop their career and drive positive safety and people culture through visible and tangible leadership.
Reporting to the Manager Fixed Plant, you will be:
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A valued partner of the Fixed Plant leadership team
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Be an inspiring role model and coach for positive behaviours, practices and processes, whilst providing leadership, development and support
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Actively engaging and influencing the wider maintenance and operations teams to improve the site’s safety, cost and production outcomes.
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Foster a culture of continuous improvement by identifying, evaluating and implementing improvement opportunities
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Widely engage and interface at all levels from general manager to supervisor level
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Partnering with contractors on a regular basis for the shutdown schedule and logistics
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Shaping new ways of working with digital tools to optimise the planning, scheduling and execution in near real-time
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Input into strategies to get more operating time out of the asset through reliability centred maintenance
What you’ll bring
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A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
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Respect for others and an all-inclusive mindset
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Strong background in fixed plant shutdown or maintenance
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Be an engaging leader who can engage, influence, coach and motivate both your immediate team but also your wider stakeholder group
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Demonstrate understanding of budget preparation, variance analysis, cost forecasting and cost drivers.
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Be resilient, proactive and pragmatic with the ability to drive progress and change within a dynamic environment.
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A Current Western Australian ‘C’ Class Driver's Licence (Manual)
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
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Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.
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A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
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Work on Country with a residential role which offers company housing and financial support with living expenses including rent and utilities (power and water)
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A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
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Full relocation provided to Western Australia from elsewhere in Australia
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A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive bonus
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Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
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Attractive share ownership plan
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Company provided insurance cover
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Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
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Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
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Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
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Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave, cultural leave)
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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
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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:
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Specialist Indigenous Support Advisors are always there for our Indigenous employees and available to support through any aspect of your employment
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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.
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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 will be working
Located 80km south west of Tom Price, Paraburdoo is a town nestled in some of the most scenic landscape in Western Australia. Paraburdoo is recognised for its beautiful scenery, wildlife diversity and close proximity to Karijini National Park. Paraburdoo prides itself on being a safe and friendly community; ideal for young families.
The picturesque town provides residents with a range of leisure facilities and local amenities including a domestic airport, hospital, community centre, child care centre, primary school, parks and a variety of sporting facilities. The recently built Paraburdoo Sports, Fitness and Community Complex offers state of the art facilities including an Olympic-size swimming pool, indoor basketball court and gym.
Applications for this role will close on the 31st of July however we do reserve the right to close the role earlier.
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