Engineer - Mechanical Reliability

Engineer Reliability - Mechanical

• Join a progressive team, driving drive value and safely through all aspects of work.
• We're a global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities.
• Permanent employment at Amrun, living and commuting weekly from nearby Weipa

About the role

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

We are looking for an experienced Engineer Reliability - Mechanical to provide professional reliability engineering function and technical expertise in including RCA, FMECA principles with formal training and skills in condition monitoring.

As a Engineer Reliability - Mechanical and working in a collaborative community within the Maintenance and Operations departments, you will:

• Assess equipment and process performance data to drive targeted defect elimination projects to support optimizing asset performance, improving life cycle cost and reliability.
• Identify failure pattern and align maintenance strategies to improve availability and reliability, while trying to reduce lifecycle costs.
• Analyse asset reliability to deliver forecasts & make recommendations for equipment and technology improvements, design changes or strategy amendments.
• Coordinate Risk Assessment processes regarding plant and mining equipment.
• Develop and participate in Continuous Improvement Projects and monitor execution as required.
• Act as a mentor for teams to promote reliability culture.
• Partner with condition monitoring and lubrication team to enhance early detection for predictive maintenance and extend equipment life
• Deliver quality insight and corrective actions in root cause analysis via team forum facilitation and engagement across multi disciplines.
• Manage standards, specifications and work procedures as required.
• Compile new and review current maintenance strategies for specific equipment types, and ensure that these are modelled to assess the impact and then thoroughly documented.
• Assist in ensuring that standard jobs (preventative, corrective and design-out) are compiled by the Plant Maintenance Engineer according to the maintenance strategy and provide technical skills regarding root cause analysis.
• Develop strategic plans for criticality/risk, budgetary, shut-down and business drivers

What you’ll bring

• Confidence in leadership, collaboration cross functionally
• A commitment to the safety of yourself and colleagues, including key elements within reliability engineering methods that promote safe work and risk mitigation.
• >10 years’ experience in reliability engineering and condition monitoring on fixed plant, with sound exposure to failure analysis, diagnostic and defect elimination
• Training and experience:
  • Root cause analysis – Apollo, PROACT, TAPROOT, ICAM or similar
  • RCM/FMECA
  • Vibration analysis ISO VCAT I & II
  • Thermography ISO TCAT I
  • Lubrication ISO LCAT I
• Tertiary qualifications in Mechanical Engineering
• Drivers License
• Advanced computer literacy (Integrated Information Systems, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Projects, SAP).
• Well-developed interpersonal and people management skills, confident leading forums and presentation.
• Sound judgement, analytical thinking and decision-making skills.
• Well-developed negotiation and facilitation skills.

What we offer

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• Competitive salary package including
  • Annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees
  • Housing and travel allowances to offset remote living expenses
  • Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions
  • Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs, pension and savings plans
  • Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matter
  • A comprehensive leave policy that covers all moments that matter in life (vacation/annual, paid parental, etc)

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. 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. 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. 

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’ll be working

Our Weipa operations in Far North Queensland includes three bauxite mines, processing facilities, shiploaders, an export wharf, two ports, power stations, a rail network and ferry terminals.

Amrun, our newest mine, was completed in 2018 and will extend our Weipa bauxite operations by decades, significantly building on our 55-year history on the Western Cape, and providing jobs and supporting business growth in the region. The mine is located on traditional land. We work closely with the Traditional Owners to implement our agreements, ensuring that the benefits generated from mining support future generations and that important cultural heritage sites are identified and preserved. 

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.

“Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove job postings prior to the stated closing date, therefore, if you are interested in applying for this vacancy please submit your application as soon as possible.”