Crew Leader – Carbon Maintenance Tiwai

Crew Leader – Carbon Maintenance

• Exciting Leadership opportunity
• Permanent role | Day work only | 9 fortnight roster
• Tiwai, Invercargill, NZ

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs. 

We are looking for a Crew Leader to manage the Carbon Maintenance team to ensure all of the identified maintenance activities are prioritized, planned and scheduled in with the focus on ensuring the right work is completed safely and to a high standard to support the rest of sites requirements.

This is a great opportunity for a frontline leader to coach and mentor the team working in a multi-disciplined workshop environment.

Leading on the frontline is one of the most important jobs in our business and comes with a huge amount of responsibility. We need you to motivate, inspire and keep your people safe and well.

Reporting to the Superintendent Carbon Maintenance and working in a challenging and exciting environment, you will be:

• Supervising the repair and overhaul of scheduled maintenance;
• Leading a diverse team of maintenance personnel in scheduling and planning all maintenance activities to achieve safety, environmental and cost objectives;
• Able to read and understand work manuals for maintenance requirements;
• Accountable for the delivery of operational excellence by identifying and implementing improvement initiatives;
• Conducting required audits and inspections to a high standard, and for the purpose of reinforcing a strong HSE culture and systems;
• Ensuring targets are consistently delivered in a sustainable and timely manner;
• Recognizing training requirements of crew members and providing training opportunities;
• Contributing to the ongoing development and maintenance of the NZAS safety culture.

What you’ll bring

• A trade qualification would be beneficial but not essential
• Proficiency in SAP
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills to achieve positive outcomes
• Sound level of numeracy, literacy and computing skills.

What we offer

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP)
• Access to top tier family-friendly health and medical programs
• Excellent retirement plan
• A comprehensive leave policy that covers all moments that matter in life (vacation/annual, paid parental leave, short term sick leave, paid holidays)
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program

Where you’ll be working

Based at Tiwai Point in New Zealand’s south, NZAS makes aluminium with one of the lowest carbon footprints in the world, and it is the only aluminium smelter to produce ultra-high purity metal using renewable hydroelectricity. Receiving the majority of its alumina from our Yarwun and Queensland Alumina Limited refineries in Gladstone, Australia, the smelter produces more than 335,000 tonnes of aluminium each year.

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 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 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.