Electrical Maintainer Rail Fixed Plant

• Be a part of the RSM Plant & Automation Maintenance Team

• Even time roster offering great work life balance

• Residential lifestyle with subsidised housing and relocation to the coast – Karratha Region

About the role

We are looking for an Electrical Maintainer to perform preventative and breakdown maintenance tasks on critical and supporting assets in the Plant & Automation Team.

Working as a Plant Electrical Maintainer you will be required to inspect and maintain a variety of assets that support the greater Rolling Stock Maintenance Division.

The successful candidate will be a self-starting, motivated individual who is looking to showcase their technical electrical skillset accompanied by a mechanical aptitude, whilst striving for continuous improvement within Health & Safety, Cost, Production, and Maintenance improvement opportunities.

This is a residential role, living in the coastal region of Karratha/ Dampier, offering comprehensive relocation assistance, subsidised housing and other residential lifestyle allowances and benefits.

Working an attractive 6 Days on, 6 Days off roster reporting to the Plant Maintenance Supervisor, you will be:

• Performing assigned preventative and when required, reactive electrical and mechanical maintenance to ensure reliability of Plant Assets within Rolling Stock Maintenance, including the following –

• Machine Shop assets –

  • Portal lathes, Underfloor Wheel Mills, Axle lathe & Wheel borer

  • Automated wheelset assembly systems

  • Gantry Cranes, Automated Guided Vehicles, bulk wheel storage assets

• Fixed plant assets –

  • Associated equipment and tooling for Locomotive and Wagons teams

  • Electrical maintenance and circuit installation, install works, testing and commissioning.

  • End of Train Monitor Servicing and Maintenance

  • Compressors

  • Cranes

What you’ll bring

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

• WA Electrical Licence

• Experience with PLC platforms and complex NC control systems (Siemens is preference)

• High level of electrical diagnostic/ trouble shooting skill

• Awareness of functional safety practices

• A sound understanding of Hydraulics, Pneumatics, and automated machine operation.

• Sound computer skills (SAP / MS Office suite)

• Proven ability to work in a collaborative environment with other disciplines, including testing and commissioning, and related documentation.

• A manual C Class driver’s licence.

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Experience in operating and maintaining automated equipment, robotics.

• Experience in PLC and Citect SCADA programming/coding, testing and on-site commissioning

• Instrumentation Certification

• HR Class Drivers Licence

• High risk licences (Elevated Work Platform, Forklift, rigging and/or dogging ticket)

• Working at Heights, Confined Space National Competencies

• Exposure to a maintenance management system, such as SAP

What we offer 

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.

• 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 permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto

• Full relocation may be provided to Western Australia from elsewhere in Australia.

• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive bonus

• 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 life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave, cultural leave)

• To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them.

• Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more, read more about the huge range of benefits 

We are committed to elevating Indigenous voices and increasing cultural knowledge in our business. Diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together. To help you on your journey with us, you’ll also have access to:

• Specialist Indigenous Support Advisors are always there for our Indigenous employees and available to support through any aspect of your employment.

• Dedicated Indigenous Talent Programme for our Operators and Tradespersons and entry level operational roles. This programme is designed to create long term sustainable careers for our Indigenous Employees to grow into leadership or technical pathways to ensure you have every opportunity to grow your career.

• Indigenous leadership programmes across some professional and operational roles to ensure that we are developing Indigenous Leaders

Where you’ll be working 

We operate 200 locomotives on more than 1,700 kilometres of track in the Pilbara, transporting ore from 16 mines to four port terminals. The average return distance of these trains is about 800 kilometres with the average journey cycle, including loading and dumping, taking approximately 40 hours. 

Our network is the largest privately owned and operated heavy haul rail system in Australia, and as we focus on the future, our vision is to become the greatest heavy haul railway in the world. 

Applications close on the 23rd of January 2025 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

About Rio TintoRio 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 can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win situations and meet opportunities.

Every Voice MattersAt 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.