Practice Lead, Asset Management

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusive
• Extensive benefits including 10% superannuation
• Based in Invercargill, New Zealand

About the role

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

We are seeking a Manager, Assets to work with a diverse and passionate group of stakeholders to drive excellence in asset management at our Aluminium Smelter at Tiwai Point. This is a great opportunity to manage a broad portfolio of work designed to keep our Smelter running in optimal condition and future-proofing our operations. Your contribution as part of the Tiwai team will be essential to the production of some of the lowest carbon, highest purity, aluminium on the planet.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry's best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

What you'll bring

• Excellent team management and leadership capability
• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation capability
• Strategic thinking, action planning, and ability to transform our vision to reality
• An ability to achieve outcomes through influence and collaboration with others
• Sound technology, asset management, operational and business knowledge
• Excellent problem solving, operational and analytical capability
• A commitment to living the Rio Tinto values of Care, Collaboration and Curiosity

Highly valued competencies

• Demonstrated industry technology knowledge of leading practices for asset-intensive industries
• Recognised and respected leader in Asset Management Technology
• Strong understanding of the Asset Lifecycle and risk management of asset failure

Reporting to the GM - Site Operations, and working with the broader Rio Tinto Assets team, your roles is essential to delivering the following outcomes:

• Defining the vision, strategy, and roadmap to deliver our asset management strategy
• Ensuring the continuity of power supply to site including during periods of changing demand
• Maintaining our large fleet of industrial mobile equipment and proactively understanding future needs to support the business. Managing warehouse and inventory to support this function
• Overseeing the relationship with our contracting partners who work closely with our projects team to deliver site capital projects
• Developing engineering solutions to minimise the failure rate of critical equipment and finding innovative pathways to increase reliability
• Maintaining and developing site automation systems to increase efficiency and production
• Planning and control of site assets to ensure that they are maintain at a frequency to deliver reliable performance
• Collaborate with key partners to sustainably deploy technology that enables group asset management processes
• Act as the custodian of metrics standards associated with risk, performance, and cost measurements
• Develop and manage the annual planning process and budget for continuous improvement in collaboration with key stakeholders and partners

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking, and your hard work, and go home knowing you've helped the world progress.

• 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
• Attractive share ownership plan
• 10% Superannuation
• Company medical assistance scheme
• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• Leave for all of life's reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• 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

Our aluminium smelter is located at Tiwai Point, just 20 minutes' drive out of Invercargill. Southland New Zealand is a wonderful place to work and live. With iconic Queenstown close by, the scenic Catlins range at your doorstep, and a city centre reinventing itself with significant renovations and new shops and eateries, Invercargill has much to offer.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from all cultures, 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 Friday 2 December 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.

Rio Tinto does not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruiters or employment agencies. Rio Tinto will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee relating to unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles. Rio Tinto reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Rio Tinto.