Supervisor Production

Rio Tinto

Australia

Job Description

Supervisor Production – Residential or FIFO

We encourage women and Indigenous Peoples to apply, as we advance our business to more accurately reflect the world around us.

Our lifestyle rosters give you more time for what matters, family, community, and the freedom to explore our incredible outback.
Living close to our operations means embracing an adventurous lifestyle – red earth landscapes, ancient gorges, and coastal escapes.
Residential and FIFO opportunities – Housing & Relocation support provided for you and your family, or family friendly 4D 3N 7X roster

Your Role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are seeking an experienced Supervisor to join our Production team at Pannawonica. The successful candidate will influence and drive positive leadership to our dynamic teams of mine operators, enabling them to meet safe productivity, cost, and quality requirements to achieve targets within our operations.

Leading on the frontline is one of the most important jobs in our business and comes with a huge amount of responsibility. We need you to motivate, inspire and keep your people safe and well.

With signature leadership training programmes, growing and developing is more than an opportunity – it is something we actively plan and make happen. Every day our leaders grow, while our rosters are designed to help you live the lifestyle that is

Supervisor Production – Residential or FIFO

We encourage women and Indigenous Peoples to apply, as we advance our business to more accurately reflect the world around us.

Our lifestyle rosters give you more time for what matters, family, community, and the freedom to explore our incredible outback.
Living close to our operations means embracing an adventurous lifestyle – red earth landscapes, ancient gorges, and coastal escapes.
Residential and FIFO opportunities – Housing & Relocation support provided for you and your family, or family friendly 4D 3N 7X roster

Your Role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

Leading on the frontline is one of the most important jobs in our business and comes with a huge amount of responsibility. We need you to motivate, inspire and keep your people safe and well.

Reporting to the Superintendent, residential to Pannawonica you will:

Be an inspiring role model and coach for positive behaviours, practices and processes, whilst providing leadership, development and support to your team.
Implement production operation plan to maximize productivity while minimizing cost and environmental impact.
Complete daily inspections of the pit and drive a positive safety culture with your team.
Build and maintain relationships with multiple stakeholders to align on operational plans and strategies.
Execute the daily and weekly mine plan

What you’ll bring

A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
Respect for others and an all-inclusive mindset
A passion for developing and coaching team members
Prior experience in a mining production environment
Demonstrated problem-solving abilities to deliver solutions across an operation
Statutory Position Legal Exam – Statutory Supervisor
Current WA ‘C’ Class – Manual License

If you are excited about the role and think you have what it takes but your experience doesn't align 100%, we still want to hear from you.

We encourage women and Indigenous Peoples to apply, as we advance our business to more accurately reflect the world around us.

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, you’re 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)
Work on Country with a residential role which offers company housing and financial support with living expenses including rent and utilities (power and water).
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.

We are committed to elevating Indigenous voices and increasing cultural knowledge in our business. Diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together. To help you on your journey with us, you’ll also have access to:

Specialist Indigenous Support Advisors are always there for our Indigenous employees and available to support through any aspect of your employment
Dedicated Indigenous Talent Programme for our Operators and Tradespersons and entry level operational roles. This programme is designed to create long term sustainable careers for our Indigenous Employees to grow into leadership or technical pathways to ensure you have every opportunity to grow your career.
Indigenous leadership programmes across some professional and operational roles to ensure that we are developing Indigenous Leaders

Where you’ll be working

Robe Valley Operations, located on Robe River Kuruma Country, is close to the community of Pannawonica in the scenic Pilbara region, approximately 200km south-west of Karratha. The operation comprises two key sites: Mesa A, which is primarily fly-in-fly-out, and Mesa J, which is strongly supported by a residential workforce living in Pannawonica.

Rio Tinto provides subsidised housing for residential employees and their families looking to enjoy a comfortable and laid-back lifestyle with modern amenities including a supermarket, cafe, medical centre, community gym, youth centre, and a primary school that also supports secondary education through supervised distance learning for older children.

Community groups provide sporting and social options for residents to get involved in, encouraging a unique balance between work and leisure for families and individuals residing in town.

Applications close on the 23rd of March 2026 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

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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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