Workboat Skipper

Workboat Skipper

• Be home with your family each night residential role, or choose to be FIFO 28 days on, 28 days off roster (FIFO from any Australian capital city)

• Enjoy a relaxed coastal lifestyle with endless opportunities for camping, fishing and boating!

• Generous subsided housing and utilities in family friendly Gove, Northern Territory

• We offer paid parental leave entitlements and flexible work arrangements

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Workboat Skipper to safely and efficiently operate and maintain the harbour work boat for the Gove operations port.  

If you opt for FIFO, you’ll stay on site for the duration of your roster with your own room equipped with TV, bar fridge and ensuite. The mess offers extensive menu options to suit most dietary requirements and there are a wide range of activities to keep you entertained after your shift such as group activities, gym and a large new outdoor common area.

This is a dynamic role and as such requires a capable mariner who has a ‘can do’ attitude, can think on their feet and thrive working in an ever changing environment.  Offering an even time roster, this role will allow you to build on your existing maritime skills and experience whilst gaining exposure within a global company.  Reporting to the Superintendent Production - Port, you will be required to:

• Safely operate the workboat within the port for the operation

• Perform maintenance tasks on the workboat as directed

• Undertake administration and deliver training in accordance with site and maritime requirements

• Assist with the maintenance of port facilities and assets.

• Ensure the operational readiness of the Workboat to meet the demands of our 24 hour shipping capability

• Working collaboratively with the port operations team

• Deliver change processes to drive continuous improvement within Port operations

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• Ability to demonstrate a high level of continued Health, Safety and Environment performance

• Current Master under 24 metres / Master Class V certificate with proven experience as a Master operating Pilot / crew transfer vessels

• Current MED 2 certificate (or ability to obtain)

• Current AMSA Medical certificate (or ability to obtain)

• Port and harbour shipping operations experience including operating crew transfer vessels, line boats and harbour tugs

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, sick leave)

• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)

• Possible domestic relocation assistance

• Remote area allowance

• Remote area holiday travel assistance

Where you’ll be working

Our Gove site in Australia’s Northern Territory has been supplying the global aluminium industry with world-class bauxite for more than 40 years.

Gove bauxite is shipped internationally as well as domestically to supply Queensland Alumina Limited and Yarwun refineries in Gladstone, Queensland. These refineries produce alumina as feedstock for our Australian aluminium smelting operations and for sale on the international market.

We expect our bauxite mining operations in the Gove Peninsula will cease later this decade and we are doing significant work to support closure of the operation.

Applications close on Thursday 17th April 2025 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

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.