Boilermaker

• Varied and interesting work
• Opportunity to innovate- improve processes and equipment
• Lifestyle roster with shift allowance and permanent employee benefits

About the role

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

We are looking for a Boilermaker to join our Fabrication Workshop team within the Site Services Department to ensure duties are performed in a safe, efficient manner with a focus on teamwork and quality results.

This role is a great opportunity for a hardworking individual who is passionate about safety and who can embrace the concept of improving every shift via regular open and respectful sharing of learnings. You will also demonstrate a high level of pride in your workmanship and possess the ability to work effectively in a team. Working a Lifestyle roster 14 and reporting to the Crew Leader, some of the key duties include;

• Working within the Fabrication Workshop team repairing and rebuilding reduction cells after their serviceable life.
• Aluminium bus bar and steel welding repairs for installation
• Gas cutting and aluminium lancing
• Equipment servicing

What you’ll bring

• A Boilermaker trade qualification
• Demonstrated Welding skills
• Demonstrated commitment to safety
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a team
• The ability to identify problems and provide contributions
• A high level of initiative and self-starting

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your 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 fixed term 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 & salary packaging options
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins witha 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. 

Where you’ll be working

Opened in 1982, Boyne Smelters Limited is Australia’s second largest aluminium smelter with a 1,000-person strong workforce. Located approximately 20 kilometres south east of Gladstone at Boyne Island on the Central Queensland coast, BSL produces around 500,000 tonnes of aluminium per annum. 

Activities at BSL include manufacturing carbon anodes in the carbon plant, aluminium production (smelting) in reduction lines, and casting of molten material into aluminium products ready to ship. The smelter is connected via a conveyor belt to the Queensland Alumina Limited refinery for the supply of alumina.

Along with Yarwun Operations and Queensland Alumina Limited, BSL supports the local community in a wide range of initiatives through Here for Gladstone.

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.