Supervisor Maintenance - Residential - Karratha

Rio Tinto; Dampier; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanent position

Annual incentive

Private health insurance

Share ownership plan

Salary packaging options

Career development

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Rio Tinto is seeking a Supervisor Maintenance Shutdowns to lead the Fixed Plant team at Dampier Port. You will mentor, coach and develop tradespeople while safely delivering planned shutdown work to schedule and quality standards.

You’ll be supported by a safety‑first culture, a 5/5/4 style roster, and a permanent, direct‑employment arrangement with competitive salary, broad benefits and opportunities for career development across our world‑class port operations.

Qualifications

• Safety of yourself and your team is a priority.
• Mechanical trade background with practical technical support.
• Statutory Position Legal Exam – Statutory Supervisor.
• Current WA C Class Driver’s Licence (Manual).
• Leadership, coaching and development of team members.
• Contractor management experience.
• Knowledge of Rio Tinto work management and shutdown principles.
• Strong SAP for work execution and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Adhere to Rio Tinto standards, policies and procedures.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by identifying opportunities.
• Lead the safe execution of mechanical shutdown work to deliver planned scope on schedule and quality.
• Manage daily maintenance activities to maximise productivity while minimising cost and disruption.
• Prioritise break-in, emergent and opportunistic work while meeting shutdown objectives.
• Provide frontline leadership to tradespersons and contractors during shutdown execution.
• Ensure maintenance work complies with standards and statutory requirements.
• Support shutdown crews with troubleshooting, defect management and risk-based decisions.
• Allocate resources using Rio Tinto work management principles.
• Ensure work packs are executed with quality completion and proper close-out.
• Conduct field leadership with critical controls and permit compliance.
• Capture lessons learned for future safety and productivity improvements.
• Ensure compliance to relative legislation, including statutory obligations.

Skills

Mechanical trade

Leadership experience

Contractor management

SAP capable

Statutory Supervisor exam

WA C Class Driver's Licence

Tools

SAP

Job description

• Fantastic opportunity to join a friendly and motivated team who are passionate about achieving results as a collective
• Join an encouraging group, committed to your growth and development
• Supportive team culture with a focus on inclusion, safety and work life balance
• Residential role in Dampier (5/5/4 roster including day and night shifts)

We’re Finding Better Ways to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future. Our values care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.

About The Role

We are looking for a Supervisor Maintenance Shutdowns to join our Port Operation. You will Lead, mentor, coach and develop the Fixed Plant team including providing regular performance feedback. Provide leadership in safely executing fixed plant maintenance shutdown activities at a site level ensuring team performance is in line with short term objectives.

Every day our leaders grow, while our rosters are designed to help you live the lifestyle that is right for you and your family.

What you’ll be doing

Reporting to the Superintendent Shutdown, you will

• Adhere to all Rio Tinto standards, policies and procedures
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by identifying, evaluating and implementing improvement opportunities utilising a range of Rio Tinto best practices
• Lead the safe execution of mechanical shutdown work to deliver planned scope on schedule and to the required quality standard.
• Manage daily maintenance activities to maximise productivity while minimising cost, rework and operational disruption.
• Prioritise break-in, emergent and opportunistic work while maintaining overall shutdown objectives and critical path focus.
• Provide frontline leadership and technical direction to tradespersons and contractors throughout shutdown execution.
• Ensure maintenance work is executed in accordance with Rio Tinto standards, procedures and statutory requirements.
• Support shutdown crews with mechanical troubleshooting, defect management and risk-based decision making during execution.
• Allocate resources and maintenance activities using Rio Tinto work management principles.
• Ensure work packs are executed as intended, with quality completion, accurate feedback and close-out.
• Conduct field leadership by verifying critical controls, permit compliance, isolations and safe work practices.
• Capture lessons learned and identify opportunities to improve future shutdown safety, productivity and reliability outcomes.
• Ensure compliance to relative legislation, including statutory obligations

About You

We’re looking for someone whose experience aligns with the key requirements below. You do not need to meet every “helpful for success” item to apply — if you bring relevant experience and are excited by the opportunity, we encourage you to submit an application.

Required for success

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Mechanical trade background with the ability to provide practical technical support and guidance to maintainers. (Essential)
• Statutory Position Legal Exam – Statutory Supervisor (Essential)
• A Current Western Australian ‘C’ Class Driver’s Licence (Manual)
• Leadership experience and confidence in leading, developing and coaching team members
• Contractor management experience
• Sound understanding of Rio Tinto work management processes and shutdown execution principles.
• Strong SAP capability for work execution, work order management and maintenance reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to build an engaged, accountable and high-performing team culture.

If you are excited about the role and think you have what it takes but your experience doesn't align 100% we still want to hear from you.

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 program
• 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 tofamily-friendly health and medical wellbeingsupport
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, personal & cultural leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

Where you’ll be working

Our integrated operations, which include port facilities, ensure we can supply the right quality product to our customers when they need it. We blend our products at our own ports, which allows us to produce a reliable and consistent product. And because we have dedicated shipping operations, we are able to better control the delivery of product to our customers.

We operate 4 independent shipping terminals at 2 locations, Cape Lambert and Dampier, managed as a single port system.

Dampier has terminals at Parker Point and East Intercourse Island, loading approximately 3 ships per day

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.