Engineer - Electrical Reliability

Electrical Reliability Engineer

• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional
• Enjoy a relaxed coastal lifestyle in an ideal residential environment – Weipa
• Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities

About the role

The Electrical Reliability Engineer is a role within the Weipa based Asset Management Reliability Engineering Team. This role is critical to ensure asset performance is monitored, improved and is consistently available to operational plan requirements with respect to Fixed plant electrical assets.

As the Electrical Reliability Engineer you will be working on a Monday to Friday roster and accountable for:

• Use data and reliability guidelines to focus improvement effort in obtaining optimal availability of the equipment.
• Periodically review assets criticality ensuring that efforts are directed to the correct assets.
• Review, develop and improve maintenance strategies and tactics.
• Evaluate equipment failure modes and utilise engineering experience and training to develop solutions for eliminating/mitigating potential failure
• Advise and confer with discipline engineers in design review meetings to give reliability findings and recommendations
• Review engineering specifications/drawings and propose design modifications to improve reliability within cost and other performance requirements
• Monitor equipment performance and evaluate equipment history and failure trends to determine sources of poor component performance
• Partner with other Rio Tinto locations to develop Electrical Reliability Best Practices and to collaboratively work through common issues focussing specifically on all fixed plant critical assets.
• Implement and be an active part of the Defect Elimination Process in Asset Performance Management (APM) program.
• Facilitate RCA’s and drive RCA process rigour across site related to all fixed plant electrical assets.
• Lead, develop and coach the reliability engineering team and train graduates and new engineers.
• Liaise with fixed plant electrical and control system engineering and maintenance team for review of asset health, performance monitoring and various improvement projects

It would be highly desirable if you have worked and had exposure to the following attributes.

• Perform detailed analysis of condition monitoring data relevant to electrical assets (eg.IR thermography), initiate maintenance strategies and changes to mitigate emerging business risks
• Investigate and identify the root causes of plant downtime by interrogating control systems data and downtime, identify and execute solutions to prevent repeat downtime from occurring
• Perform RCA for power system failure due to faults, equipment failure etc… and mitigate the issues.
• Support the development of operating standards, procedures, and work instructions (operational and maintenance)
• Analyse life of plant, equipment, infrastructure to determine equipment capability and optimisation of maintenance activities
• Ensure RCAs for equipment failures are conducted. Proactive root cause analysis and “failure type” reviews
• High voltage maintenance tactics as per the Australian standards and Rio Tinto Standard
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills are required to support cross-departmental engagement and effective communication throughout multiple levels of the business
• Proficient in defect elimination and root cause analysis coupled with analytical problem solving skills
• Experience with SAP and Asset Performance Management Software (APM)
• Strong knowledge of control schematics and control logics in PLC.
• Experience in application of change and risk management principles to all facets of work

What we offer

• Domestic relocation assistance on offer
• Weipa accommodation benefit
• Remote area allowance
• Remote area holiday travel assistance
• Paid parental leave up to 9 months (no distinction between primary and secondary carer)
• Health cover scheme for employees and their immediate family
• Salary sacrifice & packaging options – rental, mortgage, super, vehicle
• Rio Tinto employee share programme
• Employee discounts – banking, accommodation, motoring, 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

Our Weipa Operations includes three bauxite mines, processing facilities, ship loaders, an export wharf, two ports, power stations, a rail network and ferry terminals. Located on the Western Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, each year the operation produces more than 35 million tonnes of bauxite.

Our operations are supported by a 1,900-strong workforce—including 26 per cent who are women and 25 per cent Indigenous employees. Activities include mine operations, maintenance, asset management, ports, cultural heritage management, and processing facility management.

The development of our new mine, Amrun, which was completed in 2018, will extend the life of our Weipa bauxite operations by decades to come and significantly build on our 55-year history on the Western Cape.

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.