E&I Technician or Industrial Electricians

Excited to grow your career?We value our talented workforce, and whenever possible strive to help our employees grow professionally. If you think this position is right for you, we encourage you to speak to your Leader and go ahead and apply!Our people make all the difference in our success.

About the role

We currently have opportunities for Electrical and Instrumentation Technicians or Industrial Electricians willing to obtain Certificate III Instrumentation offered on site to join our high performing Maintenance teams across our Yarwun Operations. Whether you’re new to your trade or an experienced professional, and whatever industry you have exposure to, we have opportunities that will provide interesting work and growth opportunities for everyone.

Your experience, career goals and lifestyle preferences will determine whether you join our Material Handling and Shift Maintenance team(day and night lifestyle roster), our Utilities Maintenance or RMA (Residue Management Area) Team (9 day fortnight) or our Whiteside/Redside Maintenance team (day shift lifestyle roster).

At Yarwun, we are passionate about safety, we look out for each other and work together to find better ways to do things. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your development and will help you achieve your career goals.

Current area vacancies

• Redside (day shift lifestyle roster)

Reporting to the Maintenance Team Leader for your team, your role may involve:

• Maintaining and replacing electrical equipment

• Execution of planned and unplanned breakdown maintenance

• Troubleshooting, calibrating, repair and service of fixed plant instrumentation and electrical assets

• Working at heights activities

• Working autonomously, being reliable and positively contributing to the maintenance team, understanding the requirement to maintain assets in a safe and reliable condition

• Being flexible and adaptable to changing business needs

• Identifying and implementing improvement initiatives which may involve working with many different disciplines within the organisation

• Promoting and identifying HSE opportunities to improve equipment, processes and behaviours

• Execution of defined primary and secondary scopes from SAP (CMMS)

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• Respect for others and an all-inclusive mindset

• Valid C Class drivers licence

• An Australian 'A' grade Electrical licence

• Proven history of fault finding and repairs on various electrical equipment

• Proven maintenance experience working in heavy/industrial industry

Salary Band

Every Voice MattersAt 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.