Superintendent Fixed Plant

RioTinto; Remote; AUD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mining company is seeking a Superintendent Fixed Plant to lead a team in their Pilbara Mine Operations, ensuring safety and productivity. This role requires a deep knowledge of fixed plant maintenance operations, budgeting, and safety compliance. You'll support a culture of continuous improvement while contributing to both team goals and personal growth. A competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package are offered, along with a fly-in, fly-out roster to ensure work-life balance.

Benefits

Competitive base salary

Annual incentive bonus

Comprehensive medical benefits

Career development assistance

Family-friendly leave policies

Qualifications

• Commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
• Respect for others and an all-inclusive mindset.
• Demonstrated capability in coaching, leading change, and decision-making.
• Knowledge of fixed plant maintenance operations.
• Experience in contributing to the development of a safety culture.

Responsibilities

• Foster a positive safety culture and promote compliance.
• Lead and develop a team of Fixed Plant Maintenance personnel.
• Manage maintenance activities to optimize productivity and minimize costs.
• Ensure maintenance is carried out safely and on budget.

Skills

Coaching

Safety compliance

Budget management

Fixed plant maintenance operations

Job description

• The perfect balance, our roster gives you more time for the things that are important in your life and to your family and community
• Fantastic opportunity to further develop your leadership capability
• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion

About the role

We are looking for Superintendents Fixed Plant to join our leadership team across our Pilbara Mine Operations. You’ll lead a highly capable team and deliver cost‑effective asset performance through the execution of asset health assessment, maintenance engineering, planning, scheduling and shutdown coordination.

You’ll be part of a friendly team, supported by your leader to grow and achieve your own personal goals as well as the goals of the team. You’ll work on a fly‑in, fly‑out roster which will give you more time to spend on the things that are important to you and the people in your life.

Reporting to the Manager Fixed Plant, you will:

• Actively foster and communicate a positive safety culture to promote safety awareness and compliance, encouraging prioritisation of safety in all activities and operations.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by identifying, evaluating and implementing improvement opportunities utilising a range of Rio Tinto best practices.
• Collaborate closely with other functions and stakeholders in the performance of duties.
• Lead, coach and develop a team of Fixed Plant Maintenance personnel.
• Manage Fixed Plant Maintenance activities to maximise productivity while minimising cost and environmental impact.
• Provide quality control on maintenance process, including reviewing the 5‑whys process completed by direct reports.
• Work closely with the planning and scheduling teams to ensure effective maintenance.
• Ensure maintenance activities are carried out safely, according to plan and cost‑effectively.
• Manage a budget and ensure capital and operating funds are allocated correctly within Plant Maintenance and promote a high level of cost awareness.

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
• Respect for others and an all‑inclusive mindset.
• Demonstrated capability in coaching, leading change and effective decision‑making.
• Knowledge of fixed plant maintenance operations.
• Experience in contributing to the development of a safety culture and ensuring relevant safety compliance as well as adherence to standards, processes and procedures for fixed plant operations.
• Demonstrate understanding of budget preparation, variance analysis, cost forecasting and cost drivers.

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 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 well‑being 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.

Where you’ll be working

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own a world‑class, integrated network of 18 mines, 4 independent port terminals, a rail network spanning nearly 2,000 kilometres and related infrastructure – all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand. We are one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of iron ore.

Applications close on 24th of August 2025 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

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.