Supervisor Laboratory Fixed Plant

• Supportive team culture with a focus on inclusion, safety and work life balance
• Opportunity to apply your strong laboratory knowledge in a leadership role
• Attractive 9-day fortnight roster (FIFO ex Perth), supporting Robe Valley (Mesa A)

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We are looking for an engaging and safety focused Supervisor Laboratory Fixed Plant to lead a dynamic team of laboratory operators.

This role presents a fantastic opportunity to draw on your people leadership skills, harnessed with your technical knowledge to positively develop and support your team, whilst fostering an inclusive and positive team culture.

Leading from the frontline is one of the most important jobs in our business and comes with a huge amount of responsibility and stakeholder engagement. We need you to motivate, inspire and keep our people safe as we work.

Reporting to the Superintendent Fixed Plant and working in a collaborative and diverse team within the Mesa A Fixed Plant team, you will:

• Be an inspiring role model and coach for positive behaviours, practices and processes, whilst providing leadership, development and support to your team
• Ensure that sampling turnaround times are met safely and to a high standard
• Ensure a high degree of quality control is maintained
• Ensure that data is collected, validated and collated for high quality management practices
• Exhibit and demand good housekeeping practices within the lab area
• Ensure that all equipment is maintained to optimum levels
• Manage all consumable items for the laboratory area

What you'll bring

• A passionate safety leader who demonstrates commitment to creating a respectful, inclusive and diverse team environment
• Experience working in leadership roles and be confident in effectively leading, mentoring and coaching team members
• Knowledge of operational systems; IMP robotics and operating systems, Starlims, FDMS, TIKS, SuperQ, and Chemalert
• Technical and analytical experience in flux fusion, Leco TGA and XRF operations
• A current Australian C Class driver's license

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• 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 and salary packaging options
• Career development and 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)

If this sounds like your next career path, then apply today!

Applications close on Friday 26th February 2021 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls 'progress' begins with
a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress.

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium the world's first to be certified "responsible" helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe.
Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

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.