Manager MEM

Manager, Mobile Equipment Maintenance

• Join our world-class, Pilbara Iron Ore operations

• Opportunity to grow your career and work with people who inspire and motivate you

• Residential role on a 5:2/4:3 roster at Tom Price

About the role

We are looking for a Manager, Mobile Equipment Maintenance to join our Tom Price leadership team and lead our mobile equipment maintenance team to success.

As an experienced asset management and/or maintenance optimisation leader, this is a great opportunity to lead our people centric, technology advanced maintenance team. We invite you to be part of our ongoing journey to take efficiency and safety to the next level, support the operation and business, whilst providing authentic leadership and genuine care to our people.

We need you to be a team player and work across the boundaries; to motivate, inspire and keep your people safe and well, where our focus is on creating a culture of care, connection and trust. With signature leadership training programmes, growing and developing is more than an opportunity – it is something we actively plan and make happen.

This is an exciting residential opportunity in the vibrant town of Tom Price, offering a family‑friendly 5/2, 4/3 roster that supports a great work–life balance.

Reporting to the site General Manager and working in a challenging and exciting environment, you will:

• Actively foster and communicate a safety and performance driven culture

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by identifying, evaluating and implementing improvement opportunities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of engaged and enabled Maintenance personnel

• Ensure core asset management processes and practices are being applied

• Assess and manage risks and assurance activities over asset lifecycle

• Be appointed as an alternative for Site Senior Executive (SSE) under the WHS (mines) Regulations 2022 with the function as per Schedule 26

Importantly, you'll build strong relationships with internal stakeholders across our operational teams and functional support teams while externally, you'll partner with our original equipment manufacturers.

What you’ll bring

• An unwavering commitment to the safety

• Experience coaching and mentoring frontline leaders on key safety tools and practices

• Demonstrated ability to confidently manage large scale maintenance works, including planning and scheduling and budget management

• Authentic values led leadership showing genuine care, courage and curiosity

• Demonstrated asset management and/or maintenance optimization experience

• Contractor management experience

•  Current C Class manual driver’s license 

• Exposure to heavy mobile equipment maintenance is highly desirable, and we would be interested in hearing from individuals with leadership experience gained across other operational maintenance environments

What we offer

• Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped shape new ways of working.

• 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 8th February 2026 (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.

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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