Maintenance Supervisor

• Residential Role with full relocation provided – live in Weipa, a beautiful coastal community in Far North Queensland and upgrade your lifestyle with incredible outdoor adventures and water-based activities  

• Permanent employment which includes attractive salary, annual bonuses and a huge range of additional benefits which are designed to make your life better

About the role 

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.

An opportunity has become available for a motivated, safety conscious Maintenance Supervisor to lead a team of Mechanical and Electrical maintainers providing first response maintenance to fixed plant assets at Amrun Bauxite Mine.

You’ll live in the idyllic coastal town of Weipa, with full relocation provided and working a lifestyle friendly 7/7 roster at Amrun (Southern Operations) where you will stay at our newly built camp during shift and commute back to Weipa on days off, with an additional allowance to compensate time away from home.

Reporting to the Maintenance Superintendent and working with a supportive team, you will:

• Be an inspiring role model and coach for positive behaviours, practices, and processes, whilst providing leadership, development, and support to your team

• Lead multi discipline trade team of first responders and scheduled work capacity

• Build and maintain relationships with multiple stakeholders to align on operational plans and strategies

• Drive effective cost management initiatives by identifying and implementing cost saving opportunities

• Manage day to day operations through SAP

• Champion continuous improvement by identifying and implementing changes to optimize work practices and provide technical solutions to improve plant performance

What you’ll bring 

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team  

• A C class drivers’ license  

• A relevant trade or engineering qualification

• Proactive approach with a strong commitment in driving a safe working culture

• Leadership experience and understanding of fixed plant capability and license to operate mindset

• Demonstrate ability in meeting targets and bringing the team on a journey of continuous development

• Trade or Engineering qualification

What we offer 

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress

• Full relocation provided to Weipa, Queensland from elsewhere in Australia

• Weipa accommodation benefit 

• Remote area allowance 

• Remote area holiday travel assistance 

• 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, cultural leave)

Where you’ll be working 

Our Weipa Operations includes three bauxite mines, processing facilities, ship loaders, an export wharf, two ports, power stations, a rail network and ferry terminals. Located on the Western Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, each year the operation produces more than 35 million tons of bauxite. 

Our operations are supported by a 1,900-strong workforce—including 26 per cent who are women and 25 per cent Indigenous employees. Activities include mine operations, maintenance, asset management, ports, cultural heritage management, and processing facility management. 

The development of our new mine, Amrun, which was completed in 2018, will extend the life of our Weipa bauxite operations by decades to come and significantly build on our 55-year history on the Western Cape. 

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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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