Superintendent Green Carbon and Technical

• Working within a supportive culture and forward thinking team
• Residential role offering an attractive coastal lifestyle Gladstone, QLD
• Free Yaralla Lifestyle Package | Subsidised Private Medical Insurance | Competitive salary

About the role:

We are looking for a Superintendent Green Carbon and Technical to lead an experienced operational and engineering team at Boyne Smelters Limited (BSL).This role will interface with a variety of stakeholders to ensure a quality product is produced in line with production standards. Reporting to the Manager, Carbon, this role will work a Monday to Friday roster and will be responsible for:

• Designing and formulating practical solutions to proactively resolve potential problems to ensure a Zero Harm environment
• Taking a proactive approach to HSE by leading and participating in incident investigations, hazard studies and HSE improvement workshops
• Implementing and sustaining process safety standards for critical risks
• Optimising plant performance by leading a diverse team in continual improvement projects
• Leading and completing problem solving activities
• Establishing and maintaining key routines and systems to produce quality anodes
• Ensuring team objectives / work schedules are maintained in line with production expectations
• Driving technical excellence by mentoring and identifying development opportunities for team members
• Working closely with technical and operations stakeholders both on site and within the wider business

About you:

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• Strong process engineering leadership background
• Highly developed safety skills
• Strong stakeholder's management and negotiation skills
• Proven problem solving skills and the ability to provide innovative solutions
• A visual leadership style of guiding, mentoring, developing and empowering team members
• An unwavering commitment to improve and maintain HSE standards
• Process, workflow and quality improvement and cost reduction focus

It will also beneficial if you have:

• Tertiary qualifications in relevant field
• Six Sigma qualifications

What we offer

A safety-focused and inclusive working environment

A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP)

Access to top tier family-friendly health and medical programs

Excellent retirement plan

A comprehensive leave policy that covers all moments that matter in life (vacation/annual, paid parental leave, short term sick leave, paid holidays)

Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters

Generous Rio Tinto employee share program

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.

Boyne Smelters Limited (BSL)

Opened in 1982, Boyne Smelters Limited is Australia's second largest aluminium smelter with a 1,000-person strong workforce. Located approximately 20 kilometres south east of Gladstone at Boyne Island on the Central Queensland coast, BSL produces around 500,000 tonnes of aluminium per annum.

Activities at BSL include manufacturing carbon anodes in the carbon plant, aluminium production (smelting) in reduction lines, and casting of molten material into aluminium products ready to ship. The smelter is connected via a conveyor belt to the Queensland Alumina Limited refinery for the supply of alumina.

Along with Yarwun Operations and Queensland Alumina Limited, BSL supports the local community in a wide range of initiatives through Here for Gladstone

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.

Closing date 31st Jan 2021

"Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove job postings prior to the stated closing date, therefore, if you are interested in applying for this vacancy please submit your application as soon as possible."