Superintendent Capability Development

Rio Tinto; Western Australia; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Safety culture first

Permanent role at Rio Tinto

Competitive base salary with annual +1

Medical benefits including private健康

Share ownership plan

Insurance cover

Salary packaging options

Career development & education

Family health & wellbeing support

Paid parental leave 18 weeks

Employee discounts

Job summary

Rio Tinto is seeking a Capability Development Superintendent to lead the capability uplift across Pilbara operations. This people leadership role partners with the business to align learning goals with safety, production, and culture improvements, delivering tailored learning solutions through a collaborative, customer-focused team.

Reporting to the Manager Capability Development, you will drive cadences, manage performance, and coordinate with stakeholders to meet strategic objectives, while

Qualifications

• Excellent stakeholder management, engagement, and communication skills.
• People leadership and performance management with feedback and development.
• Tactical execution of strategic priorities.
• Coaching and mentoring.
• Ability to establish and measure cadences with teams.
• Data and gap analysis skills.
• Ability to articulate key messages to stakeholders.
• Adaptability and agility for multi-tasking.
• Growth mindset and high emotional intelligence.
• Ability to reflect and seek feedback.

Responsibilities

• Lead, motivate, and empower team to achieve their best performance including through changes.
• Ensure alignment to CD strategy and uplift capability across sites with technical, leadership, and culture focus.
• People management and performance reviews, check-ins, and cadences.
• Partner with stakeholders to identify capability needs and drive tailored learning solutions.
• Lead technical training teams to meet learning needs with safe execution of training plans.
• Conduct cadences effectively with meaningful outcomes and actionable follow-ups.
• Support partners with delivering strategic objectives via pod/squad structures.
• Budget annual and quarterly reviews completed on time and accurately.
• Provide operational management support including HR case management and site strategies.
• Identify and lead improvements in learning solutions and relevant initiatives/technology.
• Oversee record keeping and reporting to meet corporate and statutory standards.

Skills

Stakeholder mgmt

People leadership

Strategic priorities

Coaching

Cadences

Data analysis

Key messaging

Adaptability

Growth mindset

Emotional intelligence

Job description

• 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

• 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.