Production Coordinator

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities
• Utilise your engagement skills to partner with a diverse range of business stakeholders
• Permanent Opportunity - Residential in Tom Price

About the role

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

We are seeking a motivated and driven individual to take on the role of Production Coordinator at our Tom Price Fixed Plant. You will undertake a range of support activities to assist in enabling the safe and efficient performance of the production team.

This role will be a great opportunity for a motivated and results driven individual to play a pivotal part in supporting the sustainable and efficient processing of iron ore through our Fixed Plant.

Reporting to the Production Supervisor and working within a challenging and exciting environment, you will be:

• Working and behaving in a manner that demonstrates a commitment to Our Values of Care, Courage and Curiosity
• Ensure the building and strengthening of working relationships with team members and key stakeholders to foster a culture of shared knowledge and common processes
• Ensuring shift members and contractors understand and comply with HSE working procedures
• Assisting in identify training and development needs for team members and provide feedback to the Supervisor
• Recommending changes to the Supervisor that impact the production of the shift; address to negate problems, or capitalize on opportunities, and carry out those changes once approved
• Assisting the Supervisor to conduct performance reviews by providing input to team members’ performance
• Undertaking acting duties when the Supervisor is absent and liaising with other departments and stakeholders in a professional manner
• Allocating tasks to crew members at the commencement of the shift in accordance to the daily plan, and throughout the shift in response to changes to work priorities
• Reporting on the performance of the shift and participating in handovers between shifts

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Experience working in a fixed plant environment
• An uncompromising positive safety attitude
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• A practiced ability to organise and prioritise multiple, time-sensitive tasks
• An unrestricted 'C' Class manual driver's licence
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Packages, including, Word, Email, PowerPoint and Excel

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Familiarity with work management processes
• Experience working in a leading hand or step-up capacity
• Experience working with large teams

What we offer

• 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

Applications close on 1st of August 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)

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.

Where you’ll be working

Tom Price is located in the central Pilbara, west of Karijini National Park and is our original Pilbara mine, currently employing residential and fly in fly out employees. It is known as one of the most attractive towns in the Pilbara with a high school, two primary schools a hospital and a high standard of recreational facilities.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA2 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.