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Superintendent  Mobile Equipment Maintenance – Residential Tom Price

• Our family friendly 8 days on, 6 days off roster gives 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.
• Tom Price Residential 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 a Superintendent Mobile Equipment Maintenance to join our team, and work locally across our Tom Price Mine and Western Turner Syncline operations on a family friendly 8 days on 6 days off roster.

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.

You’ll be a part of a friendly team, supported by your Leader to grow and achieve your own personal goals as well as the goals of the team. You will be located and working locally in Tom Price, giving you more time to spend on the things that are important to you and the people in your life. 

Reporting to the Manager Mobile Equipment Maintenance, you will also:

• Be an ambassador for our Rio Tinto values of Care, curiosity and courage
• Adhere to all Rio Tinto standards, policies and procedures
• Standards Champion on site for
  • C1 Isolation
  • C4 Working at Heights
  • C6 Cranes & Lifting
• Actively foster and communicate a positive safety culture to promote safety awareness and compliance, encouraging prioritisation of safety in all activities and operations
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by identifying, evaluating and implementing improvement opportunities utilising a range of Rio Tinto best practices
• Collaborate closely with other functions and stakeholders in the performance of duties
• Lead, coach and develop a team of Maintenance personnel
• Organise and manage the execution of Maintenance work performed
• Responsible for Mobile Equipment Maintenance training, safety compliance, scheduling and productivity
• Manage Maintenance activities to maximise productivity while minimising cost and environmental impact
• Ensure compliance to relative legislation, including statutory obligations
• Manage a budget and ensure capital and operating funds are allocated correctly within Mobile Equipment Maintenance and promote a high level of cost awareness
• Executes risk and assurance responsibilities defined in the Rio Tinto Risk Management standard

What you’ll bring

• Demonstrated capability in coaching, leading change and effective decision making and proven project delivery experience
• Experienced in contributing to the development of a safety culture and ensuring relevant safety compliance as well as adherence to standards, processes and procedures and asset management principles
• Maintenance work management or shutdown management experience
• Root cause diagnostics, problem solving, reliability techniques
• Knowledge of Systems, Applications and Products (SAP) or equivalent and Microsoft Office
• Collaboratively enables Safe Production Centric Team (SPCT) effectiveness to safely optimise productivity, build organisational excellence, capability and improvement
• Demonstrate understanding of budget preparation, variance analysis, cost forecasting and cost drivers.

Qualifications

• Mechanical or Electrical Trade qualification, certification or higher
• 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, 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 
• Work on Country with a residential role which offers company housing and financial support with living expenses including rent and utilities (power and water).
• 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 
• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options 
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions 
• 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.  

Where you’ll be working

Located in the central Pilbara, Tom price is a family-friendly and modern fully-serviced town designed to complement the regions natural environment. It‘s known as one of the most attractive towns in the Pilbara with a supermarket, primary and secondary schools, hospital and high standard of recreation and child care facilities.

Regular in-town events and activities include the popular Mount Nameless Festival, drive-in cinemas, local fairs and team sport competitions; in addition to being home to one of the largest open cut mines in the world.

It offers an ideal base to explore the natural wonders of the Karijini and Millstream Chichester National Parks or travel to beautiful coastal towns over a long weekend. For more information on Tom Price, please visit: www.ashburton.wa.gov.au

Applications close on the 8th of November 2025 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date). #GTS

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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