Superintendent Sustaining Capital Projects - Facilities

Rio Tinto
Perth, WA, AU
Competitive
Jan 17, 2021
Jan 31, 2021
2116413819
Supervisory
Permanent
Full Time
English
Superintendent Sustaining Capital Projects - Facilities
  • Supportive team culture with a focus on inclusion, safety and work life balance
  • An exciting strategic delivery role, with a portfolio of $250M - $300M over a two to three-year delivery timeframe
  • Monday to Friday, Perth based role with regular travel to our Pilbara Mine Operational sites

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Superintendent Sustaining Capital Projects to work with established systems and processes to deliver a portfolio of Facility based sustaining capital projects that support our mining and port operations to produce iron ore in a safe and cost-effective manner.

The scope of work you will be accountable for is challenging and diverse. Your demonstrated ability to engage, connect and positively influence key stakeholders at all organizational levels will play a critical part to the effectiveness in this role.

You will be an inspiring role model and coach for positive behaviours, practices and processes, whilst providing leadership, development and support to a team of project professionals responsible for delivering a portfolio of projects from pre-feasibility study phase, through to implementation and closure of the project.

Reporting to the Manager of Delivery for the region, some of the accountabilities of this role include:
  • Improving and maintaining the safety outcomes and behaviours of the project engineering and construction teams, leading by example
  • Supporting the improvement of the project delivery systems, processes and procedures ensuring that they are standardised and embedded across the team
  • Working closely with support teams in areas such as Project Controls, Contracts & Procurement and Health & Safety to safely execute your projects to realise the benefit to our operations
  • Working closely with the subject matter experts within the Iron Ore Facilities team
  • Responsible for the allocation of project engineering, construction and vendor resources to support the implementation of the portfolio
  • Upskilling teams so they are accountable for their own processes and procedures and to seek capital efficiency throughout the delivery lifecycle
  • A valued partner of our site operation and maintenance teams as you build close partnerships with the internal and external stakeholders to deliver focussed solutions

What you'll bring
  • Full commitment to deliver projects with zero harm
  • A degree in Engineering or relevant Project Management qualification
  • Experience within the building sector and knowledge of building codes
  • Solid experience working within project leadership roles and be confident in effectively leading, mentoring and coaching team members as well as interfacing with senior leaders
  • Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills
  • Multi discipline project management experience, with the ability to define and implement project improvement initiatives to maximise capital efficiency
  • Demonstrated complex problem-solving abilities to deliver solutions across an operation
  • A current valid driver's license

It will also be beneficial if you have
  • Working knowledge of MS Project, Primavera & PRISM would be an advantage
  • Experience building FIFO villages

What we offer
  • 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 and salary packaging options
  • Career development and 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)

Where you will be working

You will be based at our head office located in Perth Central Park building, working Monday to Friday with site travel required on a weekly basis.

The projects you and your team will deliver are in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia where Rio Tinto operates the world's largest integrated portfolio of iron ore assets with industry-leading margins.

Our Sustaining Capital division has one of the largest budgets and project goals in 2020 in Rio Tinto Iron Ore history and this role is a critical lever to our success. The Sustaining Capital project team delivers sustaining, improvement and technology projects across our Pilbara Operations incorporating 16 mines, 4 ports and 1700km of rail infrastructure.

Apply today!

Applications close on 29th January 2021 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)

This role is for applicants residing in or willing to permanently relocate to Western Australia. Rio Tinto offers Fly in and fly out options from Perth, our regional FIFO hubs and the opportunity to live in our residential towns where applicable.

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.

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.