Manager Maintenance & Engineering

Manager Maintenance & Engineering – Dampier Salt

• Rare opportunity to join one of Rio Tinto’s Centres of Excellence

• Highly strategic role, leading a team of technical engineering and maintenance professionals

• Permanent position

Where we’re all welcome

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 who we are.    

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 acknowledge that all people are different and believe that our differences are our strength.  The diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together.   

Responsibilities include:

• Lead a centralized engineering and maintenance team, including effective and efficient hiring and training new employees, setting performance goals, designing processes for getting work done, systems for tracking completion of work, and evaluating the team’s progress.

• Developing and Implementing Maintenance Programs. This involves being responsible for developing and implementing preventative maintenance and asset health programs to ensure that all equipment, machinery, and facilities across DSL are properly maintained and meet regulatory requirements. In addition, effective programmes ensure consistency and reliability of production.

• The end-to-end management of DSL project execution to improve the asset health and productivity of DSL. This includes, leading a team that executes studies, and execution projects, from start to finish. This includes developing project plans, estimating costs, and overseeing the work of contractors and vendors in a safe and effective manner.

• Oversees the systems and the team who are responsible for maintaining accurate records and reports related to all maintenance activities, as well as plans and documents relating to assets. This includes tracking equipment maintenance schedules, documenting repairs and maintenance work, and providing regular reports to senior management.

• Ensuring that all team activities meet DSL safety regulations and guidelines. This includes overseeing safety training for team, conducting safety audits, conducting leadership in the field, engaging in fatality prevention and elimination practices, and identifying and addressing potential safety hazards.

• Collaborating with other teams internal to DSL and like functions across RT. This role is responsible for collaborating with other departments, for the betterment of process and work execution, in a way that promotes 1DSL, and is felt to be collaborative and proactive by others.

• This role is responsible for developing and managing budgets for maintenance activities across DSL. This includes estimating costs for Opex and Capex, identifying cost-saving opportunities, and ensuring that budgets are met.

What you’ll bring 

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team (standard for all job adverts) 

• Strategic leadership, which involves demonstrating a clear vision for the team

• Effective Communication skills, which includes conveying complex ideas and information clearly and concisely to different stakeholders, using powerpoint or other techniques to engage and influence a wide range of stakeholders.

• Building and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders and be able to effectively manage project teams.

• Decision making & problem solving including analyzing complex situations, identify potential risks and opportunities, and make informed decisions that will benefit the organization.

• Demonstrated ability to build an effective and accountable culture with high-performing teams.

• Organisational skills including the ability to prioritize tasks, manage multiple projects or fronts of work and work simultaneously, and ensure that deadlines are met.

• Project management leadership including the ability to plan, execute, and monitor projects from start to finish

• Demonstrated adaptability and able to adjust plans as needed to ensure that work shifts or changes depending on the situation.

• Results-oriented and focused on achieving key performance indicators and business objectives.

• Work to identify potential risks and develop effective risk management strategies to mitigate these risks.

What we offer

• Be recognised for your contribution, your 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).

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.

Where you’ll be working

Dampier Salt Limited (DSL), Part of Rio Tinto Iron Ore is a global leader in producing and exporting solar salt. The three sites are based on the northwest coast of Western Australia, our operations include Dampier and Port Hedland.  Dampier Salt is recognised for its leadership in Safety, Quality, Reliability and Sustainability. The DSL Corporate Office is in the Central Park building in Perth, Western Australia and provides corporate, administrative, and Engineering support to DSL’s three operating sites. The corporate office also provides support to the marketing team in Singapore.

Applications close on 8th of August (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

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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