Superintendent – Engineering
- Join a supportive leadership group dedicated to your growth and development.
- Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team to safely enable operations, closure and township outcomes.
- Secure a permanent position with a fantastic range of benefits.
- Various roster arrangements, including FIFO and Residential options, will be considered to accommodate individual lifestyle preferences.
About the role
Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.
Are you ready to make a difference? We are looking for a passionate Superintendent Engineering to lead a multidisciplinary engineering team to systematically improve the performance of operational and closure assets and their asset management. If you are a dynamic leader with a knack for influencing and engaging stakeholders, this is your chance to shine. You'll be part of a supportive team of results-driven professionals, all working together to achieve remarkable outcomes.
What You'll Do:
- Champion Safety and Sustainability: foster a strong health, safety and environment culture, ensuring compliance with all procedures, standards and legislation.
- Build a high‑performing team: set priorities, coach subordinate work leaders, complete performance reviews and support capability growth aligned to Rio Tinto values.
- Own the discipline engineering framework: develop and implement standards and assurance so designs and installations are safe, cost‑effective and reliable.
- Lift asset reliability: sustain condition monitoring, asset tactics and continuous improvement programs (RCM/FMEA), and lead root‑cause and defect elimination practices.
- Embed work & shutdown management: govern planning and scheduling quality, apply Rio Tinto Work Management and Shutdown Management standards, and ensure data integrity in SAP CMMS.
- Engage stakeholders effectively: collaborate across Operations, Maintenance, HSE, Projects, CSP, Finance and external partners to enable decisions, access and compliance.
- Manage performance and cost: own delegated budgets and drive targeted efficiency initiatives while meeting safety, people and process compliance commitments.
What You'll Bring:
- Safety & Mindset: Committed to HS&E and fostering a strong safety culture.
- Leadership: Experienced in leading projects and teams, setting priorities, managing performance, and applying governance.
- Team Building: Skilled at creating engaged, high-performing teams and supporting capability growth.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Strong communication and influencing skills across operations, maintenance, HSE, and external partners.
- Engineering & Technical Expertise: Degree in Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical or related) with broad operations/maintenance/project experience; SAP CMMS proficiency and data-driven decision-making.
- Results Focus: Proven record in meeting safety, site targets, and KPIs with timely corrective actions.
- Asset Management: Expertise in reliability practices (RCM/FMEA, condition monitoring, RCA/DE) and tactics development.
- Commercial Acumen: Skilled in managing budgets and partnering across complex interfaces.
What we offer
- Fifo or residential options available.
- Take advantage of heavily subsidised housing and utilities.
- Secure a permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto.
- Earn a competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience, with an annual incentive program.
- Access comprehensive medical benefits, including subsidised private health insurance for you and your immediate family.
- Participate in an attractive share ownership plan.
- Benefit from company-provided insurance cover.
- Explore extensive salary sacrifice and salary packaging options.
- Pursue career development and education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions.
- Enjoy ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support.
- Take leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave).
- Access exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail, and more).
Where you will be working
Our Gove Operations have been supplying the global aluminium industry with world-class bauxite for over 40 years. Located in Australia’s Northern Territory, the operation produces approximately 12 million tonnes of bauxite annually.
With a dedicated workforce of 460 people, our daily activities include mine operations, maintenance, asset management, shutdown planning and execution, export operations, cultural heritage management, and closure activities following the decision to close the site’s alumina refinery and associated Residue Disposal Area in 2017.
We anticipate that our bauxite mining operations on the Gove Peninsula will cease in 2030. We are undertaking significant efforts to support the closure of the operation. We also recognize that our operations take place on Indigenous-owned land, and we are committed to working together to achieve a positive future for Nhulunbuy and the Gove Peninsula post-mining.
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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 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.
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Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminum, 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 and meet opportunities.
At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities, and people from different cultural backgrounds.
We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable being 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.
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Working at Rio Tinto
Help us deliver the materials that make human progress possible.
The plane you’re flying in just landed. You fire up your phone and get your laptop out of the overhead bin. Immediately, you’re in work mode – thousands of miles from your office. Do you ever stop to think about all the materials that make life in the 21st century possible? At Rio Tinto, we discover, develop and deliver the materials that drive human progress. When you work with us, you’ll experience advantages you won’t find anywhere else.
Our application process
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Apply
The first thing you’ll need to do is apply to the role. You can do this with your LinkedIn profile or you can upload your resume. We’ll also ask you to complete a few questions before you submit your application.
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Undergo assessments
Our assessments are designed to help us work out whether you are suitable for the role. We will let you know which ones you’ll need to complete.
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Interview(s)
Our interviews could be in person or online. It’s a great opportunity for us to get to know you a bit better, answer any of your questions and talk about the exciting career opportunity you have applied for.
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Offers and checks
At this stage, we will let you know if you have been successful. If you have been, we’ll need to conduct a couple of checks, such as a background or security check. You may also need to do a medical assessment depending on the role you have applied for.
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Join the Rio Tinto team
Once the checks have been completed, we’ll be in touch to talk with you about your start date and answer any questions you may have before you start with us.