Manager, Mobile Equipment Maintenance
- Join our world-class, Pilbara Iron Ore operations
- Opportunity to grow your career and work with people who inspire and motivate you
- Residential role on a 5/2, 4/3 day roster at Paraburdoo
About the role
We are looking for a Manager, Mobile Equipment Maintenance to join our Paraburdoo leadership team and lead our mobile equipment maintenance team to success.
As an experienced asset management and/or maintenance optimisation leader, this is a great opportunity to lead our people centric, technology advanced maintenance team. We invite you to be part of our ongoing journey to take efficiency and safety to the next level, support the operation and business, whilst providing authentic leadership and genuine care to our people.
We need you to be a team player and work across the boundaries; to motivate, inspire and keep your people safe and well, where our focus is on creating a culture of care, connection and trust. With signature leadership training programmes, growing and developing is more than an opportunity – it is something we actively plan and make happen.
This is an exciting residential opportunity in the vibrant town of Paraburdoo, offering a family‑friendly 5/2, 4/3 roster that supports a great work–life balance.
Reporting to the site General Manager and working in a challenging and exciting environment, you will:
- Actively foster and communicate a safety and performance driven culture
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement by identifying, evaluating and implementing improvement opportunities
- Lead, coach and develop a team of engaged and enabled Maintenance personnel
- Ensure core asset management processes and practices are being applied
- Assess and manage risks and assurance activities over asset lifecycle
- Be appointed as an alternative for Site Senior Executive (SSE) under the WHS (mines) Regulations 2022 with the function as per Schedule 26
Importantly, you'll build strong relationships with internal stakeholders across our operational teams and functional support teams while externally, you'll partner with our original equipment manufacturers.
What you’ll bring
- An unwavering commitment to the safety
- Experience coaching and mentoring frontline leaders on key safety tools and practices
- Demonstrated ability to confidently manage large scale maintenance works, including planning and scheduling and budget management
- Authentic values led leadership showing genuine care, courage and curiosity
- Demonstrated asset management and/or maintenance optimization experience
- Contractor management experience
- Current C Class manual driver’s license
- Exposure to heavy mobile equipment maintenance is highly desirable, and we would be interested in hearing from individuals with leadership experience gained across other operational maintenance environments
What we offer
- Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped shape new ways of working.
- 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
Where you’ll be working
Located 80km south west of Tom Price, Paraburdoo is a town nestled in some of the most scenic landscape in Western Australia. Paraburdoo is recognised for its beautiful scenery, wildlife diversity and close proximity to Karijini National Park. Paraburdoo prides itself on being a safe and friendly community; ideal for young families.
The picturesque town provides residents with a range of leisure facilities and local amenities including a domestic airport, hospital, community centre, child care centre, primary school, parks and a variety of sporting facilities. The recently built Paraburdoo Sports, Fitness and Community Complex offers state of the art facilities including an Olympic-size swimming pool, indoor basketball court and gym.
