Engineer Maintenance MEM

Mobile Equipment Maintenance Engineer YANDI – FIFO

• Utilise your technical expertise in mobile equipment maintenance and reliability to provide day to day technical support for maintenance delivery
• FIFO available from Busselton, Broome or Perth
• Unique opportunity to be exposed to and support newest generation autonomous Heavy Mobile Equipment

About the role

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

We are looking for a Mobile Maintenance Engineer to join our Yandi Mobile Equipment Maintenance team. In this role, you will provide technical assistance and advice on the effectiveness of maintenance and continuous improvement practices and create value through the management of continuous improvement initiatives and the defect elimination program.

This role is a great opportunity for a highly motivated individual with technical expertise to make continuous improvements to asset performance and reliability. You will have the chance to work with a diversified fleet of equipment, gain exposure to a wide variety of equipment manufacturers and be involved in capital-based projects at a site embarking on an exciting period of expansion and growth.

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

About you 

• Tertiary qualifications in mechanical engineering or relevant trade certificate
• Demonstrated maintenance/ engineering experience
• 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

Where you will be working

This position is based at our Yandi Operations, working on a FIFO 8/6 roster

Located 95km north-west of Newman, Yandicoogina offers a range of fly in fly out rosters. As one of Australia's largest-producing iron ore mines; operating a fleet of autonomous trucks and drills, it generates more than 55 million tonnes of Hammersley Iron Yandi (HIY) fines each year.

Yandicoogina is known for its culture of teamwork, can-do attitude and pioneering spirit, leading the way with innovation and technological advances in autonomous operations and robotics.

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 supportive and inclusive community environment
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• A competitive salary package reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
• Attractive employee share scheme, extensive salary sacrifice and salary packaging options, and exclusive employee discount schemes
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

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.

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.

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.

This role is for applicants residing in or willing to permanently relocate to Western Australia. Rio Tinto offers Fly in and fly out options from Perth, our regional FIFO hubs and the opportunity to live in our residential towns where applicable.

Apply today if you want to work with the latest technology and innovation, in an environment where we challenge you to drive positive change.Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions. 

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Applications close on 17 October 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)