Superintendent Business Applications

Rio Tinto
Perth, WA, AU
Competitive
Apr 16, 2021
May 04, 2021
483313730
Permanent
Full Time
English
Superintendent Business Applications
  • Great opportunity to join a global organisation at the forefront of mining
  • Excellent work environment where people are valued and respected
  • This new role will expose you to exciting technology and challenge the way you work
  • Permanent position based in Perth or Brisbane

About the role

We are looking for a Superintendent Business Applications to lead the planning, implementation, governance and controls for the support services of Business Applications across the APAC region and globally.

This role is a great opportunity for someone with a demonstrated history in application delivery to make their mark across a broad and valuable portfolio of applications.

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.

Reporting to the Manager Business Applications, and working in challenging and exciting environment within our global IS&T Operations Team, you will:
  • Lead a team of applications specialists and outsourced integration partners, providing quality operational support services throughout the application lifecycle
  • Establish, manage and maintain systems and procedures to deliver operational support services to users of the Business Applications ensuring the solutions are maintained in a responsive and available state
  • Be responsible for the analysis, design and development of application standards and roadmaps across their technical domain, which includes the establishment and maintenance of systems and procedures within APAC region that align with industry best practices
  • Be the primary expert in the Business Applications domain - provide advice, consultation and expertise to Business Partners, Project Managers and Business Unit customers
  • Maintain relationships with outsourced partners and manage service levels to contractual standards
  • Design, develop and implement custom solutions to meet business requirements

What you'll bring
  • Tertiary qualification in Information Technology, Computer Science or other Technical discipline
  • Relevant experience in a similar role with significant experience in managing small to medium projects
  • Strong experience in the engagement of business representatives, analysing business requirements, 3rdparty vendor management and responding with appropriate design specifications and developing technical solutions
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal relationship building skills
  • Technical competencies and skills in Microsoft Server/ SQL, Office 365, Sharepoint, Active Directory, Azure/AWS, coding and development skills desirable
  • ITIL Certification

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you've helped the world progress.
  • 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 & salary packaging options
  • Career development & 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)
  • 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 will be working

Rio Tinto Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) operates to enable better alignment with customer priorities, end-to-end accountability and flexibility to prioritise critical work. The function provides solutions that are aligned with current and future business requirements through the development and ongoing delivery of IT strategy and solution roadmaps. Through appropriate governance, consultative processes, and the use of industry best practices, IS&T also ensures that emerging technologies and innovative ideas are constantly evaluated, considered, and adopted, to provide easy-to-use, best-in-class solutions and services.

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.