Superintendent - Mine Water Management

Superintendent Mine Water Management

• Grow your leadership capability and advance your career 
• Fantastic benefits package
• Fly In, Fly Out 5:2 / 4:3 roster

About the role

We are looking for a Superintendent – Mine Water Management to join our team at Yandi Operations.

This is a critical leadership role where you will inspire and motivate frontline teams, foster a strong safety culture, and drive operational excellence. You’ll be an active part of a passionate and friendly team, supported by your leader to grow and achieve your own personal goals as well as the goals of the wider team.

You’ll be part of a supportive team, supported by your Leader to grow and achieve your own personal goals as well as the goals of the team. 

You’ll work on a 5:2/4:3 roster which will give you more time to spend on the things that are important to you and the people in your life.   

Reporting to the Manager Mining, you will:

• Act as an inspiring role model and coach, promoting positive behaviours, practices and processes while providing strong leadership, development and support to mine operations teams.
• Drive a strong safety culture, ensuring compliance with operational procedures, site standards and legislative requirements.
• Manage all Mine Water Management tactical and technical activities, including planning, execution, monitoring and reporting.
• Lead change and make effective decisions to deliver key productivity improvements and enhance operational efficiency.
• Lead, develop and motivate teams, building capability and meaningful succession pathways.
• Collaborate effectively and build strong relationships with key partners to achieve broader business objectives.
• Measure, analyse and report on safety, people and productivity performance to exceed targets and drive continuous improvement.

About you:

To succeed in the role, you will have:

• A strong commitment to personal and team safety, aligned with our values of Care, Courage and Curiosity.
• Highly effective leadership, organisational, time management and analytical skills.
• Respect for others and a genuinely inclusive mindset.
• Energy and passion to lead and embed our cultural journey.
• Experience (substantive or acting) at Superintendent level within a production, technical or support function.
• Confidence in leading, mentoring and coaching teams, and in engaging effectively with senior leaders and key stakeholders.
• A demonstrated ability to build, engage and lead high-performing teams.
• Proven capability to consistently deliver safety, operational outcomes and performance targets.
• A current Western Australian “C” Class manual driver’s licence.

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 
• Full relocation provided to Western Australia from elsewhere in Australia 
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive bonus 
• 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, cultural leave) 
• To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them 
• Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more, read more about the huge range of benefits here: https://bit.ly/43AQLue    

Where you will be working 

Located 95km north-west of Newman, Yandicoogina offers a range of fly in fly out rosters. As one of Australia's largest-producing iron ore mines; operating a fleet of autonomous trucks and drills, it generates more than 55 million tonnes of Hammersley Iron Yandi (HIY) fines each year.

Yandicoogina is known for its culture of teamwork, can-do attitude and pioneering spirit, leading the way with innovation and technological advances in autonomous operations and robotics.

Applications close on 14th of 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.