Boilermaker Maintainer - Tom Price (residential)

• More time for down time with a lifestyle friendly 8 on, 6 off roster means more time to explore
• Residential role in Tom Price (temporary FIFO arrangement until housing is available)
• Adventure on your doorstep, explore the natural wonders of the Karijini National Park

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Boilermaker Maintainer to join our Tom Price Engineering Services Team. You will be responsible for maintaining infrastructure through fabricating fixed plant equipment in the fixed plant or shutdown team. This role is a great opportunity for a highly motivated individual with excellent fabrication and coded welding expertise to make a difference.

Reporting to the Supervisor Engineering Services, the role will require you to: 

• Carry out fabrication work while ensuring a high quality of finished product
• Maintaining Boiler Shop tools and equipment
• Be able to read and interpret blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine job requirements.
• Maintain a high level of safety awareness and comply with all RTIO Company Policies and procedures
• Actively contribute to continuous improvement projects – increasing safety whilst reducing risk and cost
• Utilise SAP to ensure that maintenance tasks are recorded, assigned correctly and completed to the relevant standard / specification
• Work cooperatively in a small team or individually while demonstrating flexibility and adaptation to business requirements

About you

The right candidate will ideally possess the following:

• An Australian Trade Qualification in Boilermaking/Welding/Fabrication
• A manual C-Class Australian Drivers Licence
• Experience utilizing water jet cutting technology and proficiency in CAD drawing software will be highly favoured
• Commitment to Quality, Safety, and timeliness
• Expertise in Precision Fabrication

Where you will be working

Located in the central Pilbara, Tom price is a family-friendly and modern fully-serviced town designed to complement the regions natural environment. It‘s known as one of the most attractive towns in the Pilbara with a supermarket, primary and secondary schools, hospital and high standard of recreation and child care facilities. Regular in-town events and activities include the popular Mount Nameless Festival, drive-in cinemas, local fairs and team sport competitions; in addition to being home to one of the largest open cut mines in the world. It offers an ideal base to explore the natural wonders of the Karijini and Millstream Chichester National Parks or travel to beautiful coastal towns over a long weekend. For more information on Tom Price, please visit: https://www.ashburton.wa.gov.au/community/tom-price/

What’s on offer?

• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• Full domestic relocation assistance provided
• Company housing provided in all residential towns
• Subsidised living expenses including rent and utilities
• Assistance with boarding costs for students in primary, secondary or post-secondary education
• 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 
• Extensive salary sacrifice and salary packaging options that includes residential housing, airport parking, cars and superannuation
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Company provided insurance cover
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Career development and education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support

About us

As pioneers in mining and metals, we produce materials essential to human progress. Aluminium for cars and smartphones. Copper for wind turbines, electric cars and the pipes that bring water to our home. Borates that help crops grow, titanium for paint – and diamonds that celebrate the best things in life. Our long history is filled with firsts. We’ve developed some of the world’s largest and best quality mines and operations, and our people work in around 35 countries across six continents.

Where we’re all welcome

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.

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 acknowledge that all people are different and believe that our differences are our strength. The diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together.

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 almost 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 and meet opportunities.

Applications for this role will close on Friday, 30th November 2023, however we do reserve the right to close the role earlier.

All progress begins with pioneers – at Rio Tinto it begins with you.