Electrician - Power Supply

Electrician Power Supply

• Join a diverse and motivated Power Supply Team
• Play a critical role in maintaining power for our smelter operations
• Bring your expertise and develop and grow with us!

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

We are looking for a Power Controller Maintainer to work as part of our Power Supply team to ensure duties are performed in a safe, efficient manner with a focus on teamwork and quality results.

You will be working a 9 day fortnight, 10 hour roster and as this position provides relief coverage to the Power Controller team. You will be required to work a relief rotating day and night shift roster as needed.

Training in High Voltage Switching Operations and Power Controlling Operations will be provided to the successful candidate.

Reporting to the Power Supply Maintenance Crew Leader and working in a collaborative and diverse team within Power Supply, you will be:

• Operating the high voltage assets to ensure a continuity of electrical supply to Boyne Smelter.
• Responsible for the maintenance and continuous improvement of high voltage assets, infrastructure and distribution systems.
• Consistent application of standards, maintenance procedures and work practices
• Identifying root causes of breakdowns and implementing solutions to eliminate them.
• Preparing, checking and participating in high voltage switching procedures.
• Liaising with external power providers.
• Leading teams as required to complete specific task or projects.
• Protection relay programming and settings changes.
• Secondary injection of various relay types including, ABB, Siemens Siprotec, GE Multilin, SEL series.
• Primary injection testing of Current transformers and Voltage Transformers.

What you will bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
• A trade qualification – Queensland Electrical Trades License
• Experience working in high voltage industry
• Understanding of MV distribution protection schemes
• Experience of testing a wide range of Protection Relays
• Experience of primary injection testing
• Experience in HV and LV switchboard commissioning and testing
• Experience in Circuit Breaker, CT and VT testing
• Full understanding of schematic drawings and electrical protection schemes
• Strong ability to clearly communicate with team members and stakeholders
• A commitment to continuous improvement by identifying process and cost saving initiatives
• Good computer skills including the use of SAP would be desirable.

What we offer

In addition to paying competitively and providing great benefits packages, we want you to live the lifestyle that is right for you and your family. And because of our size and scale, there are many opportunities to learn, grow and do more than you ever thought possible.

Every hour of every shift, your safety and wellbeing is our number one priority. We do the work only if it is safe, and we invest to make sure every member of the team has the quality tools they need to do their job.

• 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
• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Company provided insurance cover
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)

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.

Where you will 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.