Superintendent Engineering - Weipa
- Employer
- Rio Tinto
- Location
- Weipa, AU
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- Oct 19, 2021
- Closes
- Nov 15, 2021
- Ref
- 197019676
- Category
- Engineering, Supervisory
- Work Term
- Permanent
- Work Load
- Full Time
- Language
- English
Superintendent Engineering
About the role
We are looking for a Superintendent Engineering to lead a large team across Weipa Operations covering multiple engineering disciplines to enable effective operations.
This is a critical role covering a broad range of asset classes, including heavy mobile equipment, rail assets, beneficiation plants, ship loaders, wharfs, bridges, power stations, ancillary mining services assets, town assets and other civil infrastructure. With a range of work areas and stakeholders, it is essential this person has exemplary communication, influencing and leadership skills to inspire continuous improvement while ensuring the success of each person within the team.
Reporting to the Manager Asset Management Bauxite and working a family friendly Monday to Friday, you will:
What you'll bring
What we offer
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.
Rio Tinto Aluminium Weipa Operations
Our Weipa Operations includes three bauxite mines, processing facilities, ship loaders, an export wharf, two ports, power stations, a rail network and ferry terminals. Located on the Western Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, each year the operation produces more than 35 million tonnes of bauxite.
Our operations are supported by a 1,900-strong workforceincluding 26 per cent who are women and 25 per cent Indigenous employees. Activities include mine operations, maintenance, asset management, ports, cultural heritage management, and processing facility management.
The development of our new mine, Amrun, which was completed in 2018, will extend the life of our Weipa bauxite operations by decades to come and significantly build on our 55-year history on the Western Cape.
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.
- Exciting Leadership Opportunity - Weipa
- Be part of a diverse team that values, safety, teamwork, inclusion and respectful behaviours while delivering high value outcomes
- Permanent role with family friendly roster which includes a range of additional benefits
About the role
We are looking for a Superintendent Engineering to lead a large team across Weipa Operations covering multiple engineering disciplines to enable effective operations.
This is a critical role covering a broad range of asset classes, including heavy mobile equipment, rail assets, beneficiation plants, ship loaders, wharfs, bridges, power stations, ancillary mining services assets, town assets and other civil infrastructure. With a range of work areas and stakeholders, it is essential this person has exemplary communication, influencing and leadership skills to inspire continuous improvement while ensuring the success of each person within the team.
Reporting to the Manager Asset Management Bauxite and working a family friendly Monday to Friday, you will:
- Be a key member of the Integrated Operations Asset Management team accountable for reliability, mechanical, structural, electrical and control systems engineering across our Weipa Operations including both fixed plant and heavy mobile equipment;
- Develop and maintain effective relationships with leaders and other key business stakeholders
- Lead the implementation of the strategic asset management plan including the development of engineering processes and systems.
- Develop and continuously improve maintenance strategies and tactics
- Provide ongoing technical engineering guidance and input to maintenance and operations activities where necessary
- Maintain and embed engineering governance and discipline throughout the site to recognize long term value
- Create an interdependent safety culture where teams feel ownership and responsibility for safety
What you'll bring
- Transformational and adaptive leadership skills to inspire and empower the team to continuously improve while addressing complex challenges
- Tertiary EngineeringDegree ora Trade qualification
- Demonstrated success in leading complex technical teams within a mining or minerals processing environment
- Skills to recognize and encourage the emergence of future leaders
- Superior interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills with the ability to influence, build credibility and trust across all organisational levels
- Ability to maintain team focus on key priorities to achieve goals
- The ability to deliver great leadership through achieving results, managing people, preparing for the future and developing capability
What we offer
- Weipa accommodation and domestic relocation provided
- Five weeks annual leave
- Remote area allowance and area holiday travel assistance
- Paid parental leave up to 9 months
- Health cover scheme for employees and their immediate family
- Salary sacrifice & packaging options rental, mortgage, super, vehicle
- Rio Tinto employee share programme
- Employee discounts banking, accommodation, motoring, retail and more
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.
Rio Tinto Aluminium Weipa Operations
Our Weipa Operations includes three bauxite mines, processing facilities, ship loaders, an export wharf, two ports, power stations, a rail network and ferry terminals. Located on the Western Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, each year the operation produces more than 35 million tonnes of bauxite.
Our operations are supported by a 1,900-strong workforceincluding 26 per cent who are women and 25 per cent Indigenous employees. Activities include mine operations, maintenance, asset management, ports, cultural heritage management, and processing facility management.
The development of our new mine, Amrun, which was completed in 2018, will extend the life of our Weipa bauxite operations by decades to come and significantly build on our 55-year history on the Western Cape.
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.