Superintendent Fixed Plant

• Work for a global mining company with attractive benefits
• Lead a team that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Residential role in Paraburdoo – 8 days on, 6 days off roster
  

We’re Finding Better Ways™ to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future. Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.

About the role

We are looking for a Superintendent Fixed Plant to take on a key leadership role within our Fixed Plant team at Paraburdoo, where you will lead, mentor and develop high-performing Maintenance and Operations teams. With a strong focus on safety, operational excellence and people development, you will provide leadership across site-based fixed plant activities, support team performance and help deliver short to medium-term operational objectives. The role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact by building team capability, driving continuous improvement and supporting safe, reliable and efficient operations.

What you’ll be doing

Reporting to the Manager Fixed Plant, the role will see you:

• Provide leadership, coaching and development across Fixed Plant Maintenance and Operations teams, building capability and supporting safe, high-performing teams.
• Champion Rio Tinto standards, policies and critical HSE requirements across electrical safety, isolation, working at heights, confined spaces, manual tasks, radiation, air quality and critical asset management.
• Promote a strong safety culture and ensure compliance with relevant legislation, statutory obligations and WHS requirements, including appointed statutory responsibilities where applicable.
• Coordinate Fixed Plant Maintenance and Operations activities in line with Rio Tinto Work Management processes, ensuring safe, efficient and cost-effective execution.
• Drive maintenance and operational performance by improving productivity, reliability and work quality while managing costs, environmental impacts and quality assurance.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen safety, reliability, efficiency and operational performance using Rio Tinto best practices.
• Collaborate with planning, scheduling and key stakeholders to align priorities, coordinate activities and deliver improvement initiatives.
• Manage Fixed Plant budgets, resources and expenditure to support operational requirements while maintaining strong cost awareness and commercial discipline.

About you

• A Current Western Australian ‘C’ Class Driver's Licence.
• Trade or engineering qualifications (desirable only)
• Demonstrated experience in Fixed Plant Processing, Maintenance, Operations and/or Process Engineering.
• Strong background in safety and people leadership, with experience building a positive safety culture and ensuring compliance with relevant standards, processes and procedures.
• Demonstrated capability in coaching and developing teams, leading change and making effective decisions.
• Ability to work collaboratively to optimise productivity, build organisational capability and drive continuous improvement.
• Understanding of budget preparation, variance analysis, cost forecasting and key cost drivers.

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, personal & cultural leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Possible relocation assistance

Where you’ll be working

Located 80 kilometres southwest of Tom Price, Paraburdoo rests on the traditional lands of the Yinhawangka people. The town is surrounded by some of Western Australia’s most stunning landscapes and is renowned for its natural beauty, diverse wildlife, and close proximity to Karijini National Park.

Paraburdoo is a gateway to adventure and exploration, and the town is proud of its reputation as a safe, welcoming community and an ideal place for young families to live and thrive.

Paraburdoo offers a wide range of local amenities and leisure facilities, including a domestic airport, hospital, community centre, childcare centre, primary school, parks, and various sporting venues.

The Paraburdoo Sports, Fitness and Community Complex features state-of-the-art facilities such as an Olympic-size swimming pool, indoor basketball court, and a fully equipped gym. Recent upgrades have expanded the camp facilities to 762 rooms.

With the opening of the Western Range at Paraburdoo Operations, the site now has the capacity to produce up to 25 million tonnes of iron ore annually supporting the longevity of the Paraburdoo mining hub for up to 20 years.

Applications close on the 25th of November 2026 (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 LGBTQ+ 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.