Manager Mobile Equipment Maintenance

Manager Mobile Equipment Maintenance

We encourage women and Indigenous Peoples to apply, as we advance our business to more accurately reflect the world around us.

• Join our world class, Pilbara Iron Ore Operations

• Lead our Pannawonica plant operations to success

• Opportunity to grow your career and work with people who inspire and motivate you

• Residential role located at Pannawonica; Housing & Relocation provided

About the role

We are looking for a Manager join our Pannawonica leadership team and lead our Mobile Equipment Maintenance (MEM) operations teams to success.

As an experienced asset management and/or maintenance optimisation leader, this is a great opportunity to lead our people centric maintenance team. We invite you to be part of our ongoing journey to take efficiency and safety to the next level, support the operation and business, whilst providing authentic leadership and genuine care to our people.

We need you to be a team player and work across the boundaries; to motivate, inspire and keep your people safe and well, where our focus is creating a caring, connected and trusting culture. With signature leadership training programmes, growing and developing is more than an opportunity – it is something we actively plan and make happen.

Reporting to the General Manager, Pannawonica and working in a challenging and exciting environment, you will be:

• Identifying opportunities to optimise and rationalise mobile equipment assets

• Deploying and developing maintenance teams and individuals

• Ensuring core asset management processes and practices are being applied

• Assessing and managing risks over asset lifecycle

• Reviewing and auditing compliance

• Reporting incidents as appropriate

In addition to the above, you'll build strong relationships with internal stakeholders across our operational teams and functional support teams while externally, you'll work with our original equipment manufacturers.

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• Experience coaching and mentoring Supervisors on key safety tools such as CRM, safety interactions, pre-start and pre-task hazard assessments

• Proven experience in maintenance planning and scheduling, and preparing/working on budgets

• Experience in a similar maintenance role, with proven ability to achieve safety and operational outcomes

• Working knowledge of leading work management and asset management practices

• Demonstrated knowledge of SAP or equivalent and Microsoft Office

• Relevant Mechanical or Electrical Engineering Trade/Degree is highly desirable

• A Current WA ‘C’ Class Drivers License

• Authentic leadership and genuine care

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, you’re 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)

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

• 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

Located in the scenic Pilbara region and close to the major centre of Karratha, the vibrant town offers a sought-after lifestyle and affordable living in comfortable subsidised housing.

This is a great opportunity for you and your family to contribute to a unique community and enjoy a wide range of seasonal outdoor activities; allowing you to find the perfect balance between leisure and work. From the popular annual rodeo event to other regular social and cultural activities, local residents can make the most of modern amenities.

The town of Pannawonica is supported by a resident doctor, an excellent primary school with options to undertake secondary school studies in a supervised distance education program, supermarket, and a local community gym and youth centre.

Living, and working locally you will operate on 5 days on, 2 days off / 4 days on, 3 days off roster.

For more information, you can access Pannawonica Town information via the following link: https://www.riotinto.com/en/operations/australia/iron-ore-western-australia/towns-services

Applications close on the 23rd May 2025 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

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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.

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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