Superintendent Casting

Rio Tinto
launceston, AU
Competitive
Oct 22, 2021
Nov 06, 2021
1179873037
Supervisory
Permanent
Full Time
English
Superintendent Casting
  • Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities
  • Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
  • Permanent role, based in Launceston, TAS domestic re-location will be provided if req'd

About the role

We are looking for a Superintendent - Casting to join our highly skilled Metal Products team. Working a 9-day fortnight and reporting to the Manager - Metal Products you will:
  • Passionately lead, coach and develop a diverse team of operations personnel to achieve safety, environmental and operational objectives
  • Create an interdependent safety culture where teams feel ownership and responsibility for safety
  • Support the Bell Bay Management team in achieving the safe and effective execution of all operational functions with a continuous improvement mindset
  • Assign tasks and provide feedback and coaching to leaders and team members, which includes recognising achievements and provision of development plans.

What you will bring

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:
  • A proven record of delivering outstanding safety performance
  • A highly effective visual and engaging leadership style
  • Demonstrated success in leading complex operations teams within a manufacturing or minerals processing environment
  • The ability to coach and develop frontline leaders to be highly effective in engaging and leading their operational teams
  • Strong interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills with the ability to influence, build credibility and trust across all levels of the organisation
  • The capacity to problem solve and perform root cause analysis for operational and technical critical issues

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 competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
  • Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees & 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)
  • Relocation assistance if required

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

Bell Bay Aluminium holds a unique place in Tasmanian and Australian history as the first aluminium smelter in the southern hemisphere when it began production in 1955. Today, it produces around 190,000 of primary aluminium each year.

The smelter is situated on the Tamar River, approximately five kilometres from George Town and 45 kilometres from Launceston. We employ more than 500 Tasmanians and more than 60 full-time equivalent contractors who, on a typical day, undertake work at the smelter.

For more than 65 years Bell Bay Aluminium has played a significant role in the social and economic wellbeing of George Town and Northern Tasmania through employment, community investment, and using local goods and services. In 2019, the site also received Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) certifications, assuring customers the aluminium they purchase has been produced to the highest environmental, social and governance standards.

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.

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

Closing date 5th November 2021

"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