Superintendent RMA

• Fantastic leadership opportunity
• Ongoing training and development provided
• Life friendly coastal location - Gladstone

About the role

We are looking for an RMA Wall Superintendent to provide project management expertise and strategic leadership in the delivery and execution of our Residue Management Area (RMA) project at our Yarwun site.

This role is a great opportunity for somebody that displays leadership capability and wants to further their career. Working a Monday to Friday roster and reporting to the Manager RMA, you will be:

• Responsible for ensuring rigor in the RMA rituals and routines are adhered to to ensure safe operations of HME machinery, thickeners and pipelines
• Accountable for ensuring maintenance is completed as per schedule
• Managing all critical risks and making sure risk controls are effectively implemented and maintained
• Participating in risk assessments and design review workshops
• Supporting the RMA capital project execution team, and
• Supporting of RMA Operations specialist to ensure deposition cycle, residue density and dam safety KPIs are met

About you

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

• Frontline leadership experience of operational teams
• Experience in Tailings storage facilities would be desirable
• Earthmoving project experience

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.

Where you will be working

With production beginning in 2004 at our Yarwun alumina refinery, located approximately 10 kilometres north-west of Gladstone in Central Queensland, today the operation produces more than three million tonnes of alumina per year.

Around 700 people support the operation, with an additional 350 contractors on site each year as part of scheduled maintenance shutdown activities. Thanks to its 'Industry 4.0' focus, Yarwun is also a leader in trialling new technologies to improve operations on site, including 3D printing, robotics and drones in confined spaces, and is home to Rio Tinto's innovative Queensland Research and Development Centre (QRDC).

Along with Boyne Smelters Limited and Queensland Alumina Limited, our Yarwun Operation 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 18th May 2022

'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.'