Supervisor Earthworks
Rio Tinto
Job Description
- Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
- Based in the beautiful outdoor and family-oriented community of Tom Price
- Family friendly residential roster working 8 days on 6 days off
We’re Finding Better Ways**™** to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future. Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.
About the role
We are looking for residential Supervisor Earthworks to join and support our team in Tom Price. This role presents an opportunity to lead, mentor and coach your team to safely execute fixed plant earthworks activities at a site level ensuring team performance is in line with short term objectives.
It is a fantastic opportunity for someone ready to step into a leadership position within a supportive and inclusive environment. You’ll work a residential roster of 8 days on, 6 days off , giving you more time to spend on the things that are important to you.
Located in the central Pilbara, Tom price is a family-friendly and modern fully-serviced town designed to complement the regions natural environment. It‘s known as one of the most attractive towns in the Pilbara with a supermarket, primary and secondary schools, hospital and high standard of recreation and child care facilities.
Regular in-town events and activities include
- Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
- Based in the beautiful outdoor and family-oriented community of Tom Price
- Family friendly residential roster working 8 days on 6 days off
We’re Finding Better Ways**™** to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future. Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.
About the role
We are looking for residential Supervisor Earthworks to join and support our team in Tom Price. This role presents an opportunity to lead, mentor and coach your team to safely execute fixed plant earthworks activities at a site level ensuring team performance is in line with short term objectives.
It is a fantastic opportunity for someone ready to step into a leadership position within a supportive and inclusive environment. You’ll work a residential roster of 8 days on, 6 days off , giving you more time to spend on the things that are important to you.
Located in the central Pilbara, Tom price is a family-friendly and modern fully-serviced town designed to complement the regions natural environment. It‘s known as one of the most attractive towns in the Pilbara with a supermarket, primary and secondary schools, hospital and high standard of recreation and child care facilities.
Regular in-town events and activities include the popular Mount Nameless Festival, drive-in cinemas, local fairs and team sport competitions; in addition to being home to one of the largest open cut mines in the world.
It offers an ideal base to explore the natural wonders of the Karijini and Millstream Chichester National Parks or travel to beautiful coastal towns over a long weekend.
Reporting to the Superintendent Plant Operations, you will be working in an inclusive and supportive team, within Fixed Plant, you will be:
- Adhere to all Rio Tinto standards, policies and procedures
- Appointment as Statutory Supervisor under WHS (Mines) Regulations 2022 with the functions as per Schedule 26
- Actively foster and communicate a positive safety culture to promote safety awareness and compliance, encouraging prioritisation of safety in all activities and operations
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement by identifying, evaluating and implementing improvement opportunities utilising a range of Rio Tinto best practices
- Collaborate closely with other functions and stakeholders in the performance of duties
- Organise and manage the execution of Fixed Plant Earthworks work performed
- Support with contractor management for our civil works partners.
About you
- A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
- Experience in a fixed plant or mobile equipment environment (desirable)
- Strong communication and organisational skills
- A Current Western Australian ‘C’ Class Driver's Licence (Manual)
- Statutory Position Legal Exam – Statutory Supervisor
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, personal & cultural leave)
- Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
- Possible domestic relocation assistance
Where you’ll be working
Tom Price is located in the central Pilbara region, 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.
Applications close on 19 March 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.
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