Warehouse Supervisor – Gove
- Experience a balanced lifestyle, allowing you to spend more time with your loved ones and enjoy the activities that matter most to you.
- Join our friendly teams who prioritize looking after each other, because your safety and wellbeing are always our top priority.
- Step into a leadership role where you can coach, mentor, and develop a small, diverse team.
- This is a residential role based in Gove – relocation provided.
About the Role
Are you ready to take on a leadership role that makes a real impact? We are seeking a dynamic Warehouse Supervisor to lead our warehouse team at our Gove Operation. In this critical role, you'll ensure safety, production, and operational efficiency targets are met while driving continuous improvement. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a strong work ethic and a 'can do' attitude to lead an operational team towards achieving our production and safety goals.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and Supervise: Oversee a small team, providing direction for the safe and efficient operation of the warehouse.
- Coach and Mentor: Inspire your team to embrace safety systems, fostering an interdependent safety culture through daily shift starts, safety interactions, human performance, and critical risk management tools.
- Build Relationships: Cultivate strong relationships with multiple stakeholders to align on operational plans and strategies.
- Control and Accuracy: Maintain a high level of control over stock count and documentation accuracy, ensuring full adherence to internal controls and procedures.
- Coordinate Activities: Manage team activities that deliver value, focusing on establishing strong, accurate processes.
- Operational Management: Oversee day-to-day operations using SAP.
- Champion Improvement: Identify and implement changes to optimize warehouse operations.
What You'll Bring:
- Leadership Experience: Proven experience in a similar warehousing and logistics role.
- Strong Leadership Skills: Ability to build and lead a team focused on safety and high-quality customer service.
- Continuous Improvement: Experience in generating and executing warehouse optimization initiatives.
- Adaptability: Ability to react and adjust to changing conditions and priorities in a live operation.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Strong interpersonal skills for engaging with stakeholders.
- Technical Skills: Intermediate computer skills, including Microsoft Office and SAP.
- Problem-Solving: Excellent problem-solving, collaboration, communication, client-service, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
Desirable Qualifications:
- Site Operations Exposure: Experience with site operations or relevant materials management qualifications.
- SAP Knowledge: Familiarity with the SAP Warehousing module.
- Logistics Experience: Prior experience in a transport/logistics operation.
What we offer
Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.
- Work in an environment where safety is always the top priority.
- Secure a permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto.
- Enjoy a competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience, with an annual incentive program.
- Benefit from domestic relocation assistance.
- Receive a remote area allowance.
- Take advantage of remote area holiday travel assistance.
- Access paid parental leave up to 9 months, with no distinction between primary and secondary carers.
- Benefit from a health cover scheme for employees and their immediate family.
- Explore salary sacrifice and packaging options – rental, mortgage, super, vehicle.
- Participate in the Rio Tinto employee share program.
- Enjoy exclusive employee discounts on banking, accommodation, motoring, retail, and more.
Where you’ll be working
Our Gove Operations have been supplying the global aluminium industry with world-class bauxite for over 40 years. Located in Australia’s Northern Territory, the operation produces approximately 12 million tonnes of bauxite annually.
With a dedicated workforce of 460 people, our daily activities include mine operations, maintenance, asset management, shutdown planning and execution, export operations, cultural heritage management, and closure activities following the decision to close the site’s alumina refinery and associated Residue Disposal Area in 2017.
We anticipate that our bauxite mining operations on the Gove Peninsula will cease in 2030. We are undertaking significant efforts to support the closure of the operation. We also recognize that our operations take place on Indigenous-owned land, and we are committed to working together to achieve a positive future for Nhulunbuy and the Gove Peninsula post-mining.
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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Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminum, 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 and meet opportunities.
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 being 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.
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Working at Rio Tinto
Help us deliver the materials that make human progress possible.
The plane you’re flying in just landed. You fire up your phone and get your laptop out of the overhead bin. Immediately, you’re in work mode – thousands of miles from your office. Do you ever stop to think about all the materials that make life in the 21st century possible? At Rio Tinto, we discover, develop and deliver the materials that drive human progress. When you work with us, you’ll experience advantages you won’t find anywhere else.
Working in a technical role at Rio Tinto
Your advanced expertise will help drive human progress.
We’ve developed technical capabilities through nearly 150 years of discovering, planning, and operating mines in every corner of the world. We’re an open, connected international team of technical specialists using some of the most sophisticated tools and robust data on the planet. Join us and experience:
Our application process
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Apply
The first thing you’ll need to do is apply to the role. You can do this with your LinkedIn profile or you can upload your resume. We’ll also ask you to complete a few questions before you submit your application.
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Undergo assessments
Our assessments are designed to help us work out whether you are suitable for the role. We will let you know which ones you’ll need to complete.
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Interview(s)
Our interviews could be in person or online. It’s a great opportunity for us to get to know you a bit better, answer any of your questions and talk about the exciting career opportunity you have applied for.
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Offers and checks
At this stage, we will let you know if you have been successful. If you have been, we’ll need to conduct a couple of checks, such as a background or security check. You may also need to do a medical assessment depending on the role you have applied for.
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Join the Rio Tinto team
Once the checks have been completed, we’ll be in touch to talk with you about your start date and answer any questions you may have before you start with us.