Operators Tiwai

Production Operator Roles Tiwai - NEW YEAR NEW YOU NEW JOB!
Were recruiting now for roles commencing around March 2026

Get in early and apply today!

Why join us

• Great opportunity to gain skills for a new career no previous experience required full training and support provided.
• Balanced Work-Life Rhythm our lifestyle-friendly roster provides a harmonious balance between career and home life ensuring you spend more time with your loved ones and doing the things that matter most to you.
• Join our friendly teams we look after each other because your safety and wellbeing are always our priority.

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

New Zealands Aluminium Smelter (NZAS) referred to as Tiwai is on the lookout for curious-minded individuals who want to take on a rewarding career with us! We are seeking expressions of interest from people keen to start a new chapter and join our Tiwai whānau as a Production Operator where youll become part of various departments on-site including Reduction Carbon Rodding Carbon Green & Bake and Casting & Logistics.

Every hour of every shift your safety and wellbeing is our number one priority. We do the work only if it is safe and we invest to make sure every member of the team has the quality tools they need to do their job.

Reporting to our Supervisors and Superintendents youll join our close-knit proud and hardworking teams. The role of a Production Operator is integral to the safe and high-quality production of Tiwais product offering aluminium. The aluminium produced at NZAS is the purest in the world. Our teams care about their work and the people who make it happen.

What youll do

Working in a strong team environment you will support our operational teams to ensure the safe and sustainable production of aluminium through the operation of mobile and fixed plant equipment alongside manual duties. Tasks include:

• Keeping safety front of mind in all tasks
• Working as part of a team to meet shared goals across each shift
• Operating and housekeeping of machinery such as cranes sweepers and forklifts
• Working on reduction lines: tapping metal cell dressing raising beams
• Furnace preparation pit operations production inspections and mobile equipment operation

Our roster is a 12-hour day/night shift (two-day two-night and four-day off rotation) allowing you to balance work and lifestyle commitments.

About you

• Strong communication skills and team orientation
• Ability to undertake physical work in a hot industrial environment
• Self-motivated with a desire to learn and a commitment to safety
• No prior industry experience required full training provided
• Experience in teamwork physical work or shift work is highly regarded

What we offer

As part of the Rio Tinto group youll enjoy:

• Full training provided
• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Competitive base salary with annual incentive program
• Comprehensive medical insurance scheme
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Leave for all of lifes reasons (annual parental sick leave) including long service leave
• Transport assistance between Invercargill and Tiwai
• Competitive superannuation programme
• Career development & education assistance

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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 cant do it on our own so were 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 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.