Manager, Mobile Equipment Maintenance

• Join our world-class, Pilbara iron ore operations
• Lead our Greater Hope Downs maintenance to success
• Opportunity to grow your career and work with people who inspire and motivate you
• FIFO from Perth

About the role

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

We are looking for a Manager, Mobile Equipment Maintenance to join our Greater Hope Downs leadership team and lead our mobile equipment maintenance teams to success.

As an experienced asset management and/or maintenance optimisation leader, this is a great opportunity to lead a large multi-disciplined maintenance team, geographically spread across two sites including our Hope Downs 1 and Hope Downs 4 iron ore operations. We invite you to be part of our ongoing journey to take efficiency and safety to the next level, support the operation and business, whilst providing authentic leadership and genuine care to our people.

We need you to motivate, inspire and keep your people safe and well. With signature leadership training programmes, growing and developing is more than an opportunity it is something we actively plan and make happen. Every day, our leaders grow.

This role offers you an opportunity to manage more than just steady state operations. You'll play a pivotal role in driving and navigating your team through a period of organisational transformation. Reporting to the General Manager and working in a challenging and exciting environment, you will be:

• Identifying opportunities to optimise and rationalise mobile equipment assets
• Defining the strategies for the renewal or disposal of mobile equipment assets
• Deploying and developing maintenance teams and individuals
• Ensuring core asset management processes and practices are being applied
• Assessing and managing risks over asset lifecycle
• Reviewing and auditing compliance
• Reporting incidents as appropriate

In addition to the above, you'll build strong relationships with internal stakeholders across our operational teams and functional support teams while externally, you'll work with our original equipment manufacturers.

What you'll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Demonstrated ability to confidently manage large scale maintenance works, including shut down maintenance
• Asset management or maintenance optimization experience
• Authentic leadership and genuine care

Exposure to mobile equipment maintenance is not essential, and we would be interested in hearing from individuals with leadership experience gained across other operational maintenance environments.

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 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

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.

Where you'll be working

This role is available on a FIFO basis, on a 5/2/4/3 roster, with every second Friday spent in Perth.

Located 50km north-west of Newman, Hope Downs 4 is a joint venture managed and operated by Rio Tinto, working in conjunction with nearby site Hope Downs 1.

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 close on the 2nd of May 2021 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)