Advisor Dewatering

Advisor Dewatering

• Challenging and rewarding role
• Work within a dedicated team on a growing site
• Be home every weekend, 4 days on, 3 days off Roster

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We are looking for a motivated and engaging Dewatering Advisor to drive improvements while managing a dewatering schedule to ensure alignment with mining and maintenance plans.

This role is a great opportunity for an enthusiastic and ambitious individual seeking a new challenge.

Working 4 days on, 3 days off roster out of Perth, and reporting to the Superintendent Dewatering, you will be:

• Creating and managing a dewatering schedule for site, including a weekly dewatering plan for the operational teams to execute
• Reviewing and advising on maintenance schedules for dewatering equipment
• Developing relevant and meaningful metrics (lead and lag) to inform customers and stakeholders of current and predicted dewatering performance
• Liaising with stakeholders to ensure effective integration of dewatering and management of dewatering assets.
• Creating systems of work (SWP’s) for the dewatering teams
• Creating and managing a dewatering database to assist in operational decision making and reporting
• Identifying improvement opportunities and managing projects to improve the site’s dewatering capability

What you’ll bring

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• Extensive experience of dewatering in the mining industry
• Experience in potable and wastewater treatment pipeline design and optimisation
• Knowledge of fire water regulations and design
• SAP maintenance planning experience
• C class WA driver’s licence
• Microsoft Office skills: Intermediate to advanced
• Excellent communication skills and strong history of working between operational departments

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• A tertiary qualification in either Geoscience, Environmental Sciences, Mechanical or Mine Engineering or water engineering

What we offer

• 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 and salary packaging options
• Career development and 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)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)

Where you will be working

Located 95km north-west of Newman, Yandicoogina offers a range of fly in fly out rosters. As one of Australia's largest-producing iron ore mines; operating a fleet of autonomous trucks and drills, it generates more than 55 million tonnes of Hammersley Iron Yandi (HIY) fines each year.

Yandicoogina is known for its culture of teamwork, can-do attitude and pioneering spirit, leading the way with innovation and technological advances in autonomous operations and robotics.

Are you ready to be part of something great? Apply now!

Applications close on 24 May 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers. 

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers – generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress. 

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe. Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life. 

Every Voice Matters

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.