Superintendent Electrical

Superintendent Electrical – Residential

• Residential role, be part of the friendly community in Karratha

• The perfect balance, our roster gives you more time for the things that are important in your life and to your family and community 

• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support

About the role

As the Superintendent Electrical Maintenance, you will lead a team of Electrical Maintenance Supervisors and asset management professionals to safely and efficiently maintain the electrical and control system assets for Dampier Ports fixed plant assets to ensure compliance and reliability.

You’ll be part of a collaborative, high performing team, supported by your leader to grow and achieve your own personal goals as well as the goals of the team. You’ll work the 9-day fortnight roster which will give you more time to spend on the things that are important to you and the people in your life. 

Key Responsibilities

Reporting to the Dampier Ports Maintenance Manager, you will:

• Your duties also include optimising the productivity of plant, labor, and equipment through detailed work packages and plans. Additionally, you will oversee the organisation, and management of the team's work, while also ensuring safety compliance and departmental productivity.

• Managing the maintenance budget and operating plan to minimise costs while meeting availability, reliability, and capital goals is essential. Moreover, you'll be tasked with defining staffing needs, selection criteria, and development plans for the team, while closely collaborating with other functions to ensure performance across the organisation.

• Ensures optimum utilisation and productivity of plant, labour and equipment by the preparation of detailed work packages and plans.

• Conducts work unit training, safety compliance and departmental scheduling and productivity.

• Develops and manages the maintenance budget an operating plan that minimizes cost while achieving goals for availability, reliability and capital plans.

• Defines staffing needs, selection/assessment criteria, and development needs.

• Collaborates closely with other functions in the performance of duties.

What you’ll bring

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• Leadership experience and confidence in leading, developing, and coaching team members

• Capability to analyse and solve problems without clear precedent.

• Contractor management experience

• An understanding of the work management process and principles, with a sound knowledge of shutdown and maintenance

• Having previous experience as a superintendent and/or an electrical discipline will be highly regarded.

• Effective planning and time management skills

• C Class driver's licence

• A can-do attitude

• A continuous improvement and growth mindset

What we offer  

• Be recognised for your contribution, your critical 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 

• Full relocation provided to Western Australia from elsewhere in Australia 

• 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

• Work on Country with a residential role which offers company housing and financial support with living expenses including rent and utilities (power and water).

Where you will be working

Our port facilities consist of four shipping terminals located on the Pilbara coast at Dampier and Cape Lambert which form an essential part of our logistics process. Each terminal has facilities for train unloading, iron ore stockpiling, product blending and ship loading.

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.

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.

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