Manager - Operational Excellence
- An exciting residential opportunity in the vibrant town of Paraburdoo, where you can embrace an adventurous outdoor lifestyle.
- Family friendly 5/2, 4/3 day roster, giving you more time to spend on doing the things that matter to you most.
- Domestic relocation assistance will be provided.
About The Role
We are seeking a dynamic and results-oriented
Manager - Operational Excellence to join our Paraburdoo leadership team.
This is an opportunity to live in the vibrant town of Paraburdoo in the Pilbara close to our operations, offering a range of leisure and local amenities such as a primary school, childcare centre and sporting facilities for you and your family.
Enabling operational excellence is imperative to becoming the best operator and our OE teams are critical to realising our strategic objectives and priorities. Our OE teams are at the heart of the Rio Tinto Safe Production System at our operations by building, maturing, and sustaining the system over time.
In this strategic role, you will be responsible for the sustainability of the Rio Tinto Safe Production System (SPS) and to lead Operational Excellence Department, spanning Business Improvement, Risk Management, Capital Governance, Administration, People Logistics and Contract Management.
Leveraging a foundation in value stream management, your will effectively prioritise initiatives and collaborate across teams, shaping and refining processes to deliver asset wide results. With a strong expertise in stakeholder management, you will contribute to fostering a high-performing, collaborative team culture across the asset.
You will possess a robust background in business operating systems (such as RTSPS), coupled with a proven ability to drive business improvement through data-driven insights. For a key crucial leadership role, we are looking for a visionary individual who brings innovation, forward-thinking ideas, and a genuine commitment to empowering teams, all while maintaining a relentless focus on operational excellence.
Reporting to the General Manager, the role will see you
- Promote and communicate a positive safety culture, ensuring risk management improvement and governance across operations
- Collaborate with functional teams on first and second line assurance activities
- Accountable for the integration and maturity of RTSPS, ensuring practice delivers performance
- Manage strategic site improvement planning, including embedding replication of best practices to enable the future of the RTSPS sustainability
- Oversee the design and execution of business improvement lifecycle, focusing on maximizing benefits and minimising risks to the asset through continuation improvement culture
- Coach operational leaders on best practices in operational excellence
- Develop and retain team capabilities within portfolio to ensure sustained results and ongoing progress against the Site Improvement Plan and Operational Excellence
- Maturity Assessment
- Apply governance, discipline, and quality assurance in capital planning and contractor management
- Ensuring consistent high standards of support for site operations through administration and logistics functions
- Develop strong relationships with external partners and stakeholders
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
- Your appetite for an operational focus and demonstrated exposure to Operations
- A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
- Commitment to Rio Tinto value drivers of Care, Courage, and Curiosity
- Significant leadership experience and a proven track record of success with coaching and mentoring team members
- Strong problem solving, strategic thinking and business process optimisation and improvement experience
- Solid influencing skills and ability to develop and build credibility among peers
- Strong teamwork, communication, and interpersonal skills
- A tertiary degree
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.
Applications close on 24th February 2026 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).
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 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.
