Fixed Plant Manager

Fixed Plant Manager – Tom Price

• A senior leadership opportunity that partners and influences across a significant stakeholder group
• Opportunity to grow your career and work with people who inspire and motivate you
• Residentially located in Tom Price (WA) with a family-friendly 5/2, 4/3 roster, ensuring you're home every evening

About the Role
Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

Are you ready to take the next step in your career while embracing the unique lifestyle and opportunities of the Pilbara? Imagine spending your weekends exploring the stunning landscapes of Tom Price and the surrounding Pilbara region. Known for its natural beauty, this area offers an ideal environment for both career growth and work-life balance.

We are seeking a Fixed Plant Manager to join our senior leadership team in Tom Price. This role offers more than just an opportunity – it’s a chance to accelerate your career in a residential setting that provides stability and connection. As a Fixed Plant Manager, you’ll lead the operations and maintenance of vital assets such as crushers and conveyors, dry crushing and screening plant, beneficiation plant, balanced machines, train load-out facilities and tailings dams.

At the heart of our team is a commitment to care and trust. You’ll work across boundaries, inspiring and motivating your team while ensuring their safety and well-being. With signature leadership training programs, career growth is not just a possibility – it’s something we actively plan and make happen.

Reporting directly to the General Manager Tom Price & Marandoo, you’ll lead a team of Superintendents to achieve safe, efficient production while meeting operational and business goals. Your responsibilities will span day-to-day plant operations, preventative maintenance, shutdown planning and execution and continuous improvement, allowing you to drive performance and innovation.

We are a connected global team with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a range of benefits to reward your contributions. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are vast and exciting.

Your Key Responsibilities
You’ll be a key player in ensuring high-performance outcomes, including:

• Ensuring the delivery of ore product that meets quality specifications through reliable plant performance
• Leading and developing plant operational and maintenance teams
• Cultivating a performance culture that aligns with our values of care, courage, and curiosity, driving safety behaviours and stable operations
• Overseeing core plant operations and asset management processes
• Managing the fixed plant shutdown cycle and ensuring safe, on-time delivery
• Assessing and managing risks across the asset lifecycle, including compliance audits

This is your chance to take on a role that combines career progression with a lifestyle of adventure in Tom Price. The residential nature of this role accelerates your career by offering unmatched focus, opportunity, and connection with both your team and the local community.
 

What you’ll bring

You are an experienced people leader who is ready for a role of this complexity. You’re well versed in leading technical teams, perhaps you’re in a similar role and looking for a challenge that will give you exposure to a wide range of assets, multiple plants and a large team. This is the role that will set you apart with experience you can’t get anywhere else.

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team 
• Demonstrated leadership experience fostering the Rio Tinto values: Care, Courage and Curiosity
• Strategic mindset in being able to interpret complex systems and identify key value drivers
• Experience in organisation change, prioritising people and problem solving
• Demonstrated ability to safely and economically deliver production plans
• Process plant operations and/or asset management and/or maintenance optimization experience

Exposure to fixed plant is desirable, we would be interested in hearing from individuals with leadership experience gained across other operational maintenance environments. 

There are also plenty of opportunities for you to make a difference in this role and you'll be supported by your leader to bring a deep curiosity to you work in identifying and delivering tangible business improvement.
 

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
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• 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)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

Where you’ll be working

Tom Price is located in the central Pilbara, 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 25 May 2025 (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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