Superintendent Capability Development

Riotinto

Shire Of East Pilbara

On-site

AUD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

10 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Safety-first culture
Permanent Rio Tinto position
Annual incentive bonus
Private health insurance for employee+
Share ownership plan
Insurance cover
Salary sacrifice options
Career development & education support
Family-friendly wellbeing support
18 weeks paid parental leave

Job summary

Rio Tinto is seeking a Capability Development Superintendent to lead the Capability Development team across Pilbara operations. This role focuses on uplifting safety, production and culture through effective learning solutions and stakeholder collaboration.

You will partner with internal stakeholders, manage budgets, and drive continuous improvement while delivering high-quality training and leadership development.

Qualifications

  • Experience in capability development or learning & development leadership.
  • Strong stakeholder engagement across multiple levels.
  • Proven ability to lead and drive performance and culture improvements.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and empower the capability development team to achieve high performance.
  • Align capability initiatives with CD strategy focusing on technical skills, leadership and culture.
  • Manage people performance, cadences, and reviews with cadence-driven governance.
  • Partner with stakeholders to identify capability needs and deliver tailored learning solutions.
  • Lead training teams to deliver safe, compliant training across Pilbara operations.
  • Establish effective cadences and ensure actions are tracked and completed.
  • Support delivery of strategic objectives through cross-functional teams.
  • Oversee budget planning and quarterly reviews for capability initiatives.
  • Provide HR case management and site-level operational support.
  • Proactively drive improvements in learning solutions and technology.

Skills

Stakeholder management
People leadership
Performance management
Learning & development
Cadence planning
Data analysis
Communication
Adaptability
Strategic thinking
Mentoring

Job description

Superintendent Capability Development
  • Global mining organization with an exceptional safety culture
  • Excellent opportunity to partner with the business in a collaborative team
  • FIFO 5/2, 4/3 roster from Perth offering great/work life balance
  • Role covers our Pilbara operations
Where we’re all welcome

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 who we are.

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 acknowledge that all people are different and believe that our differences are our strength. The diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together.

About the role

We are looking for a Capability Development Superintendent to join our Capability Development team covering our Pilbara operations.

This is a people leadership position. Partnering closely

Superintendent Capability Development
  • Global mining organization with an exceptional safety culture
  • Excellent opportunity to partner with the business in a collaborative team
  • FIFO 5/2, 4/3 roster from Perth offering great/work life balance
  • Role covers our Pilbara operations
Where we’re all welcome

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 who we are.

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 acknowledge that all people are different and believe that our differences are our strength. The diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together.

About the role

We are looking for a Capability Development Superintendent to join our Capability Development team covering our Pilbara operations.

This is a people leadership position. Partnering closely with the business to understand and meet internal stakeholders’ learning goals and objectives that will lead uplift of safety, production, and culture. This exciting opportunity will see you as part of a collaborative team who strives to provide exceptional customer service.

Reporting to the Manager Capability Development, you will be responsible for:

  • Lead, motivate, and empower team to achieve their best performance including through changes
  • Ensure alignment to CD strategy that outlines a targeted approach to uplifting capability within allocated business operation/site including technical skills, leadership, and culture
  • People management and performance management – including P6, check-ins cadences, quarterly and annual reviews
  • Partner with key stakeholders to identify capability development needs/opportunities and leverage learning specialist to drive tailored learning solutions
  • Lead technical training teams to meet the learning needs of the business operation/site through safe execution of training plans and associated training schedules
  • Conduct cadences effectively and with meaningful outcomes, with actions identified and taken accordingly
  • Support functional partners with the delivery of their strategic objectives through forming natural teams (Pod/Squad approach)
  • Budget: Annual and Quarterly budget reviews completed on time and accurately
  • Provide efficient Operational Management support – including HR case management; handovers/shift starts; site strategy and site-specific projects
  • Proactively identify, coordinate and lead improvement in learning solutions and relevant initiatives / technology
  • Oversee all aspects of record keeping and reporting to ensure corporate and statutory requirements are met and best practice standards are achieved.
What you’ll bring

To succeed in this role, you will have:

  • Excellent stakeholder management, engagement, and communication skills
  • People leadership and performance management – including constructive feedback, clear expectations, and team development
  • Tactical execution of strategic priorities
  • Coaching and mentoring
  • Ability to establish and measure to effective cadences with teams
  • Data and gap analysis skills
  • Ability to develop and articulate key messages to stakeholders
  • Adaptability and agility – multiple-task and context switch
  • Growth mind set and high Emotional intelligence
  • Ability to reflect and seek feedback.
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 bonus
  • 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, cultural leave)
  • To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them
  • Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more

We are committed to elevating Indigenous voices and increasing cultural knowledge in our business. Diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together. To help you on your journey with us, you’ll also have access to:

  • Specialist Indigenous Support Advisors are always there for our Indigenous employees and available to support through any aspect of your employment
  • Indigenous leadership programmes across some professional and operational roles to ensure that we are developing Indigenous Leaders.
Where you’ll be working

This role will be offered on a 5/2, 4/3 FIFO roster from Perth covering our Pilbara operations. Rio Tinto owns and operates an integrated portfolio of iron ore assets that include a world-class, integrated network of 16 mines, four independent port terminals, a 1,700 kilometre rail network and related infrastructure – all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand.

Applications close on Friday 13th of November 2026 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).
About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.

We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win situations and meet opportunities.

Respect and Inclusion

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTQ+ 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.

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