Engineer Reliability

Reliability Engineer– Fixed Plant – Greater Brockman Operations – FIFO

• Opportunity to work on high value initiatives to improve Fixed Plant Operations reliability
• FIFO 5 days on 2 off, 4 days on 3 off roster 
• Join a growing and passionate internal community of reliability experts focussed on delivering excellence in reliability

About the role

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

With exposure to the newest technology and innovation, you will champion defect elimination and reliability engineering processes to improve fixed plant asset reliability and integrity.

This role will provide you with the chance to excel in your career, extend your technical expertise and make your mark by influencing reliability improvement across a broad asset base.

Reporting to the Senior Engineer for Asset Management and Engineering Services, you will:

• Lead the Defect Elimination process on site, with a view to improve plant availability

• Champion reliability practices on site including 5 Whys and RCAs, criticality and spares assessments, constraint optimisation and identify opportunities for reliability-focussed investment
• Review, recommend and implement tactics designed to maintain asset health and improve asset safety, reliability and integrity
• Analyse plant performance data to successfully identify, prioritise and implement reliability improvement initiatives
• Provide technical engineering support to the site maintenance execution teams

What you’ll bring

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• Tertiary qualifications in mechanical engineering or related discipline
• A commitment to safety and critical risk management
• The ability to work collaboratively across a diverse range of stakeholders and operational teams
• Experience in bulk material handling equipment in a fixed plant environment, i.e. crushing, screening, conveying, stackers, reclaimers.
• Experience with Defect Elimination processes and Root Cause Analysis methodology will be advantageous
• SAP experience will be advantageous
• C class manual driver’s licence

Where you will be working

Located 120km north-west of Tom Price, Greater Brockman is wholly owned and operated by Rio Tinto. Opened in 2010, this open pit operation offers a family friendly fly in fly out roster with state-of-the-art camp facilities.

The Greater Brockman Operations consist of Brockman 2, Brockman 4, Nammuldi and Silvergrass. Driving the latest technological advancements, the open-pit mines offer an avenue for opportunity and career progression.

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 2 September (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)