Electrician - Shift Roster Rotation

Electrician - Rotating Shift Roster

• Attractive salary package including shift allowance
• Permanent full-time opportunity - Bell Bay, Tasmania
• Personal ongoing training and development to further your career ambitions
• Join a team dedicated to improvement initiatives and best practice operations

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

2023 is set to be an exciting year for Bell Bay Aluminium with a range of improvement initiatives underway. Our Asset Management Team have commenced a number of works to bring our Asset Management system back to standard with Tactic creation, Catalogue Profiles, System Structure, MoC, Asset Registers, and Asset Criticality, just to start.

We currently have an opportunity for a trade qualified Electrician to join our shift roster maintenance team.

This is a great opportunity to work as part of a well-established maintenance environment and use your already acquired skills. We care about inclusion and diversity, and we welcome applications from Electricians who wish to continue their career development.

Our rotating Shift Roster includes a combination of 12 hr day/night shifts in a rotation of 2 and 3 consecutive working days/days off. This rotation means that you will alternate from a long week (60 hours) to a short week (24 hours). This provides you with every second weekend off and in combination with a shorter work-week each fortnight, you will have the opportunity to balance your work and other commitments to spend time on the things that are important to you.

Reporting to the Crew Leader you will be:

• Fault finding and managing planned and breakdown work;
• Communicating with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders;
• Working autonomously as well as within a team.

What you’ll bring

Previous experience working within an industrial environment is highly regarded. To be successful in this role, you will have:

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Trade qualified (Electrical)
• Australian Electrical Licence
• Strong problem-solving capabilities
• Current C class drivers licence

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.

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
• Domestic relocation assistance
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
• 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

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.

Where you’ll be working

Rio Tinto is a global leader in aluminium, one of the world’s most widely used metals.

Active in the sector for more than 110 years, today we operate large-scale, high-quality bauxite mines and alumina refineries, and have the world’s most modern and competitive aluminium smelter portfolio.

Our Pacific Operations sites are located along the east coast of Australia, at the tip of the Northern Territory and in New Zealand’s south. With more than 6,000 employees, we operate a full value chain approach—mining, refining and smelting. Our portfolio includes four bauxite mines, two refineries, four smelters and one power station, and is supported by technical experts located in our Brisbane hub, including a fully operational Operations Centre for our bauxite mines.

Bell Bay Aluminium is based approximately 50 kilometres from Launceston in Northern Tasmania, and 5km from George Town. The smelter produces primary aluminium products.

Every Voice Matters

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.

This recruitment process will include testing, pre-employment checks and medicals and this advertisement may be used for both current and future vacancies.