Maintenance Manager - Yarwun

Maintenance Manager - Yarwun

• Fantastic opportunity to manage a large maintenance facility and be part of the site operations leadership team
• Passion and commitment to the continual improvement of refinery operations management and safety
• Monday to Friday roster
• Lifestyle/friendly Central Queensland coastal location, Gladstone

About the role 

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Maintenance Manager to join Rio Tinto’s Yarwun Alumina Refinery, based in the coastal town of Gladstone, Queensland.

This role is a great opportunity for an experienced and established maintenance professional leader, which involves safe execution of all maintenance across Yarwun operations. 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. 

Reporting to the General Manager- Yarwun Operations, this key leadership role manages a diverse range of operational teams including 7 Superintendents and their respective teams. The role operates in a challenging and exciting environment, and has a wide range of duties including:

• Integrating health, safety and environment guiding principles into your daily operational activities to empower employees to make improvements in the workplace
• Continue to drive a culture based on valuing safety and respecting the operator
• Fostering teamwork and collaboration by recognising and effectively utilising skills of peers
• Strong understanding with asset management
• Driving operational discipline in work management
• Driving data-based decision-making to inform all maintenance related activities
• Managing cost performance for your department, including budgeting and forecasting
• Role modelling collaboration to build effective relationships and drive productivity
• Part of building a high performing team across Aluminium operations
• Deploying business improvement methodologies to improve equipment availability

What you’ll bring 

• A strong commitment to the safety of yourself and others
• Ability to promote, mentor and drive a diverse way of thinking
• Significant leadership experience with a maintenance senior leadership role or similar challenging operational role
• Understanding of the technical aspects involved in the maintenance of plant operations
• Depth of experience and understand working in an asset management framework
• Extensive experience in managing major maintenance activities
• Tertiary qualifications within Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or other relevant technical disciplines is desirable
• Contractor management and engagement experience
• Demonstrated experience in continuous improvement initiatives/projects
• Experience using business improvement methodologies such as: KAIZEN, Lean Six Sigma and Change Management would be beneficial
• Ability to navigate SAP would be helpful.

What we offer

• Be recognised for your contribution - our 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 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 and 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)
• Domestic relocation assistance

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 and meet opportunities.

Where you’ll be working

Rio Tinto is a global leader in aluminium, one of the world’s most widely used metals.

Active in the sector for more than 110 years, today we operate large-scale, high-quality bauxite mines and alumina refineries, and have the world’s most modern and competitive aluminium smelter portfolio. 

Our Pacific Operations sites are located along the east coast of Australia, at the tip of the Northern Territory and in New Zealand’s south. With more than 6,000 employees, we operate a full value chain approach—mining, refining and smelting. Our portfolio includes four bauxite mines, two refineries, four smelters and one power station, and is supported by technical experts located in our Brisbane hub, including a fully operational Operations Centre for our bauxite mines.

As part of the Yarwun team, located in Gladstone, Queensland, the region is famous for fishing and boating. With Australia's most northerly surf beach, Agnes Water and Town of 1770, proximity to National Parks, laid back coastal villages and rural hinterland lifestyles, make it an attractive destination to live and work.

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. 

Apply today if you want to work with the latest technology and innovation, in an environment where we support you to drive positive change.

Applications close on 13 May 2024 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to close advertising prior to this date).

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.