Engineer Maintenance

Maintenance Engineer

• Utilise your technical expertise in mobile equipment maintenance and reliability to provide day to day technical support for maintenance delivery
• Real opportunity to make an impact and advance your career
• Unique opportunity to be exposed to and support newest generation autonomous Heavy Mobile Equipment

Where we’re all welcome 

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. 

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 acknowledge that all people are different and believe that our differences are our strength. The diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together.

You’ll be part of a supportive team, supported by your Leader to grow and achieve your own personal goals as well as the goals of the team. You’ll work on an 8 day on, 6 days off based roster which will give you more time to spend on the things that are important to you and the people in your life. 

Reporting to the Senior Maintenance Engineer, you will:

• Provide day to day technical support to maintenance teams for a variety of physical assets
• Manage continuous improvement processes to deliver improvements in safety, production and cost
• Manage site-based capital project delivery and interface with central sustaining capital project teams
• Perform root cause analyses and provide inputs to a defect elimination team
• Lead safety, logistical and technical discussions
• Publish daily KPIs relating to production critical assets or systems
• Analyse asset performance and validate production loss data
• Participate in reliability facilitated asset tactics development

What you’ll bring

• Tertiary qualifications in mechanical engineering or relevant trade certificate
• Demonstrated technical maintenance/ engineering experience
• Demonstrated ability to engage with maintenance stakeholders to identify and resolve defects
• Experience working in a heavy mobile equipment workshop
• Strong focus towards safety and safe work practices
• An ability to work collaboratively in small teams, and demonstrate adaptability
• Experience in prioritising and delivering continuous improvement initiatives and projects
• Deep experience and understanding of reliability-based maintenance & practical problem solving
• Expresses interest and potential to be an emerging leader
• A manual “C” class driver’s license

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
• 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
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Company provided insurance cover
• Extensive salary sacrifice and salary packaging options
• Career development and 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)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)

Where you will be working

Located 50km north-west of Newman, Hope Downs 4 is a joint venture managed and operated by Rio Tinto, working in conjunction with nearby site Hope Downs 1. Hope Downs 4 provides excellent career growth and opportunities and the village provides excellent facilities for its FIFO workers.

Who we are

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 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.

Applications close on the 20^th of January 2024 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)