Coordinator Plant Operations – Residential

Coordinator Plant Operations – Residential

• Our lifestyle rosters give you more time for what matters, family, community, and the freedom to explore our incredible outback.

• Living close to our operations means embracing an adventurous lifestyle – red earth landscapes, ancient gorges, and coastal escapes.

• Residential Tom Price opportunities only – Housing & Relocation support provided for you and your family

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for motivated, and driven individuals to take on a Coordinator role, within our high performing fixed plant operations team at Tom Price.

This is a great opportunity for motivated, safety conscious individual who is seeking a development pathway into a frontline leadership role.

With signature leadership training programmes, growing and developing is more than an opportunity – it is something we actively plan and make happen. Every day our leaders grow, while our rosters are designed to help you live the lifestyle that is right for you and your family.

Reporting to the Superintendent Fixed Plant and working in a challenging and exciting environment, you will:

• Allocating tasks to crew members at the commencement of the shift in accordance with the daily plan, and throughout the shift in response to changes to work priorities 

• Ensuring shift members and contractors understand and comply with HSE working procedures 

• Assisting in identify training and development needs for team members and provide feedback to the Supervisor 

• Recommending changes to the Supervisor that impact the production of the shift; address to negate problems, or capitalize on opportunities, and carry out those changes once approved 

• Assisting the Supervisor to conduct performance reviews by providing input to team members’ performance 

• Undertaking acting duties when the Supervisor is absent and liaising with other departments in a professional manner 

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• Experience working in a Fixed Plant environment 

• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills 

• A practiced ability to organise and prioritise multiple, time-sensitive tasks 

• Familiarity with work management processes 

• Experience working in a leading hand or step-up capacity 

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Packages, including, Word, Email, PowerPoint, and Excel 

• Statutory Position Legal Exam – Statutory Supervisor

• A Current Western Australian ‘C ’Class Driver's Licence (Manual)

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. 

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

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.

We are committed to elevating Indigenous voices and increasing cultural knowledge in our business. Diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together. To help you on your journey with us, you’ll also have access to:

• Specialist Indigenous Support Advisors are always there for our Indigenous employees and available to support through any aspect of your employment

• Dedicated Indigenous Talent Programme for our Operators and Tradespersons and entry level operational roles. This programme is designed to create long term sustainable careers for our Indigenous Employees to grow into leadership or technical pathways to ensure you have every opportunity to grow your career.

• Indigenous leadership programmes across some professional and operational roles to ensure that we are developing Indigenous Leaders

Where you’ll be working

Tom Price is located in the central Pilbara region, west of Karijini National Park and is our original Pilbara mine, currently employing residential and fly-in fly-out employees. It is known as one of the most attractive towns in the Pilbara with a high school, two primary schools, a hospital and a high standard of recreational facilities.

Applications close on the 19th of January 2026 (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.

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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