Contracts Supervisor

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are currently looking for a Contracts Supervisor to join the team at our New Zealand Aluminium Smelter (NZAS). This role is accountable for daily Contractor management and long-term asset maintenance planning and execution.

This is a great opportunity for a passionate individual to expand their knowledge base and learn how our systems and tools function at a detailed level. Reporting to the Superintendent, Contractor Maintenance & Services working within a diverse team you will be:

• Responsible for long term Asset planning and execution of major maintenance projects, developing scopes of work, bid evaluation, procurement support and contract delivery
  
• Delivering project management across a diverse range of contracting partners primarily focused on Asset management
  
• Compiling and reporting on look-ahead schedules involving Operations and Maintenance to ensure delivery schedules are met
  
• Liaising daily with the Contract teams on the work underway with Safety, Quality, Work-supervision, and costing oversight.
  
• Facilitation of internal and external resources to develop high quality solutions to difficult project issues, implementing on agreed actions
  

What you’ll bring

• A high commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
  
• Higher School Qualification Level Three NZEA or equivalent
  
• Proven skill set in a comparable role
  
• Experience with SAP business systems as applied to maintenance
  
• Experience in contractor management including HSE, work scope and commercial
  

What we offer

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
  
• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP)
  
• Access to top tier family-friendly health and medical programs
  
• Excellent retirement plan
  
• A comprehensive leave policy that covers all moments that matter in life (vacation/annual, paid parental leave, short term sick leave, paid holidays)
  
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters
  
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program
  

Where you’ll be working

Based at Tiwai Point in New Zealand’s south, NZAS makes aluminium with one of the lowest carbon footprints in the world, and it is the only aluminium smelter to produce ultra-high purity metal using renewable hydroelectricity. Receiving the majority of its alumina from our Yarwun and Queensland Alumina Limited refineries in Gladstone, Australia, the smelter produces more than 335,000 tonnes of aluminium each year.

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.

Every Voice Matters

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