Operations Superintendent Casting Dept.

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Exciting and challenging leadership opportunity at our modernized smelter
• Based in Kitimat, BC

About the role

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

We are looking for an Operations Superintendent to lead the safe, reliable, and environmentally responsible operation of our Casting Department through the application of best practice operations, maintenance and asset management processes that ensures compliance to all regulatory requirements and business deliverables.

This role is a great opportunity for a safety-oriented and engaging leader to drive and optimize operational performance in a fast-paced work environment.

Leading on the frontline is one of the most important jobs in our business and comes with a huge amount of responsibility. 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, while our rosters are designed to help you live the lifestyle that is right for you and your family.

Reporting to the Manager and working a Monday to Friday schedule, you will be:

• Accountable for the safety standards and performance across your area promoting the zero harm safety culture
• Accountable to deliver on key indicators such as productivity and quality in collaboration with other departments across site
• Fostering a culture of continuous improvement, supporting the team in the implementation of improvement initiatives, competency training, and technical advances
• Preparing and managing capital and operating budgets to achieve business outcomes
• Improve overall leadership capability and staff development to support the operations robustness both now and into the future
• Apply business evaluation techniques in conjunction with risk assessment principals to optimize operation and service delivery
• Optimize production and drive efficiency through leadership, engagement, and application of technology
• Identifying threats and opportunities to business objectives through data, conversations, and observations; and diagnosing root causes to determine the required intervention.
• Action as a liaison between the leadership team & the shopfloor.
• Supporting active listening initiatives at Lean meetings, to quickly respond to employee concerns

Please note: Fly-in-fly-out arrangements are not available. Comprehensive relocation assistance is provided.

What youll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Degree qualification or relevant leadership experience or technical / trade background with industry experience
• Mature and detailed understanding of Health & Safety leadership, culture, systems, and management
• A minimum of 5 years of industrial maintenance / operations experience ideally leading people within a unionized organization
• Leadership experience and ability to coach, mentor, and develop people
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders
• Understanding of cost structure and optimization
• Prior knowledge of Lean/6 Sigma methodologies are an asset

What we offer

Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing youve helped the world progress.

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical programs, pension and savings plans
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Leave for all of lifes reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts
• 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 worlds 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 youll be working

Rio Tintos BC Works is a part of the Atlantic Operations of the Aluminium product group and has been operating in British Columbia for over 65 years. With industry leading new technology and four generations of employee expertise, as well as our hydropower facility at Kemano and the Nechako Reservoir, the Kitimat smelter is one of the worlds most competitive aluminium smelters, producing aluminium with one of the lowest carbon footprints in the industry.

Rio Tinto is proud to operate in BC alongside our 1,000 employees, partners, community stakeholders and First Nations, and we look forward to the next 60 years.

To learn more about our Aluminium Operations, check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=25&v=CTp1jkRKeBI

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA2 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: May 23, 2022

(Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)