GIS Superintendent

GIS Superintendent Brisbane

• Attractive salary annual incentive program and a huge range of employee benefits and discounts designed to make life better
• Permanent full-time opportunity based in Brisbane
• Work in a flexible work environment where we prioritise a healthy work/life balance
  

About the Role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are seeking an experienced Superintendent to lead develop and empower our geospatial team across multiple projects. This role is centered on building a high performing collaborative team environment while ensuring that GIS capability is effectively embedded across the business.

You will provide clear direction support professional growth and champion GIS as a strategic enabler for decision making. Working closely with stakeholders from CSP Environment Geology and Projects and the RTA Operations you will ensure your team delivers high quality outcomes that meet organisational needs. Your leadership will play a key role in shaping how spatial information is used more broadly across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead mentor and develop a team of GIS professionals fostering a culture of collaboration accountability and continuous improvement.
• Oversee team capacity prioritisation and workflow management to ensure timely and effective delivery of spatial outputs.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders to understand business needs and align GIS support accordingly.
• Drive the growth of GIS capability within the organisation increasing adoption and accessibility for general employees.
• Guide the team in maintaining high standards of data integrity governance and compliance.
• Promote innovation by supporting your team to explore new approaches tools and efficiencies.
• Represent the GIS function in cross disciplinary forums ensuring the teams work is visible and valued.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and best practices.
  

What Youll Bring

Essential

• Demonstrated experience leading and managing a GIS or technical team.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to translate needs into actionable team outcomes.
• Proven ability to build team capability provide coaching and support performance development.
• A commitment to high standards of data governance and operational quality.
• A demonstrable collaborative leadership style with strong stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience managing workflows within an enterprise or multi-project environment.
  

Desirable

• Degree in GIS Geospatial Science or related discipline.
• Proven experience in GIS management and spatial data workflows.
• Exposure to enterprise GIS environments geospatial tools and cloud-based solutions.
• Understanding of spatial data for mining infrastructure or environmental projects.
  

About You

You are a people focused leader who values teamwork clear communication and professional development. You thrive in dynamic environments and enjoy shaping how a team contributes to broader organisational goals under the guidance of senior management. Your ability to build relationships motivate others and advocate for GIS ensures your team is an integral and trusted partner across the business.

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Flexible working from home arrangements as per operational requirements
• 18 weeks of gender-neutral and equal paid parental leave with continued superannuation contributions whilst employees are on unpaid or half paid parental leave
• 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 lifes reasons (vacation/annual paid parental sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking accommodation cars retail and more); and
• Local relocation packages offered for Australian residents only

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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 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.