Transport and Logistics Controller – Boyne Smelters

• Be part of close-knit team with a strong commitment to safety
• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
• Enjoy a relaxed coastal lifestyle next to a regional hub – Gladstone
• Full time role based at Boyne Island, Queensland

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

Reporting to the Transport Logistics Crew Leader, the T&L Controller will play an important role in delivering quality Aluminium both ingot and billet for our domestic and international customers.

This role is a great opportunity for a safety focused, team player who wants to contribute to making the business even better. You will be working an even time 4 on 4 off roster rotating between day shifts (R14).

Working as part of a small team you will be responsible but not limited to;

• Planning the safe execution in the preparation
• Loading and delivery of Aluminium to our customers

What you’ll bring

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

• A demonstrated commitment to safety
• Desire and ability to lead, and function effectively as part of a team
• A commitment to continuous improvement
• Mechanical aptitude
• Excellent communication skills
• The ability to work with upstream and downstream stakeholders and support teams
• Active participation in Toolbox and Safety Meeting sessions and ability to facilitate Toolbox meeting when Crew Leader is absent.
• A willingness to learn and enthusiasm to develop new skills as required
• Sound computer skills including the use of Metpro would be desirable.
• Forklift ticket highly regarded
• Manual c class drivers licence required

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

Where you will 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.

Boyne Smelters Limited is Australia’s second largest aluminium smelter with a 1,000-person strong workforce. Located approximately 20km south east of Gladstone at Boyne Island on the Central Queensland coast, BSL produces around 500,000 tonnes of aluminium per annum.

Activities at BSL include manufacturing carbon anodes in the carbon plant, aluminium production (smelting) in reduction lines, and casting of molten material into aluminium products ready to ship. The smelter is connected via a conveyor belt to the Queensland Alumina Limited refinery for the supply of alumina.

BSL is committed to protecting the environment and ensuring safe work practices where people feel safe at work and care for each other.

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers – generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress.

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe.

Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

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.

Closing date 21st July 2022

“Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove job postings prior to the stated closing date, therefore, if you are interested in applying for this vacancy please submit your application as soon as possible.”