Specialist Maintenance ​- Gove, NT

• Join a supportive leadership group dedicated to your growth and development
• Secure a permanent position with a fantastic range of benefits
• Embrace a culturally rich coastal lifestyle in beautiful Gove
• Enjoy domestic relocation assistance within Australia 

About the Role 

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs. 

As the Specialist Maintenance, you’ll play a key role in supporting the maintenance function by leading and coordinating large, complex, and sustainable optimization projects across our assets.This position is essential for ensuring the effective implementation of our asset management strategies and business plans, delivering safe outcomes for our people and long-term value from our physical assets.

You’ll focus on maximizing asset performance through lifecycle management, forecasting, and strategic planning. 

About Us 

We are committed to excellence in asset management and operational efficiency. Our culture encourages innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement, where every team member contributes to our shared success. Join us in shaping the future of asset management. 

Key Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate large contracting teams, ensuring adherence to contract conditions
• Assist the Maintenance Superintendent and Supervisors in developing and executing cost-effective plans aligned with operating requirements
• Lead investigations into equipment failures utilizing asset management best practices
• Evaluate repair options to ensure timely and cost-effective solutions
• Conduct regular reviews of maintenance projects to ensure alignment with scope, schedule, budget, and safety standards
• Provide leadership and mentorship to team members and our contracting partners, fostering a high-performance culture 

What You’ll Bring

• Technical Expertise: Strong knowledge and experience in your technical or professional discipline
• Project Management: Proven ability to lead maintenance optimization projects from conception to completion
• Problem Solving Skills: Capacity to analyze complex issues and develop innovative solutions
• Leadership: Ability to supervise and mentor a team of engineers and technicians effectively
• Decision-Making: Skills in evaluating options and making informed decisions aligned with business objectives

If you have a passion for asset management and possess the skills and experience outlined above, we invite you to apply 

What we offer

• Enjoy domestic relocation assistance.
• Receive a remote area allowance (25% of base salary).
• Benefit from remote area holiday travel assistance.
• Take advantage of heavily subsidised housing and utilities.
• Secure a permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto.
• Earn a competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience, with an annual incentive program.
• Access comprehensive medical benefits, including subsidised private health insurance for you and your immediate family.
• Participate in an attractive share ownership plan.
• Benefit from company-provided insurance cover.
• Explore extensive salary sacrifice and salary packaging options.
• Pursue career development and education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions.
• Enjoy ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support.
• Take leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave).
• Access exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail, and more).

Where you will be working 

Our Gove Operations have been supplying the global aluminium industry with world-class bauxite for over 40 years. Located in Australia’s Northern Territory, the operation produces approximately 12 million tonnes of bauxite annually.

With a dedicated workforce of 460 people, our daily activities include mine operations, maintenance, asset management, shutdown planning and execution, export operations, cultural heritage management, and closure activities following the decision to close the site’s alumina refinery and associated Residue Disposal Area in 2017.

We anticipate that our bauxite mining operations on the Gove Peninsula will cease in 2030. We are undertaking significant efforts to support the closure of the operation. We also recognize that our operations take place on Indigenous-owned land, and we are committed to working together to achieve a positive future for Nhulunbuy and the Gove Peninsula post-mining.

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About Rio TintoRio 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 MattersAt 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.