Engineer - Reliability

Reliability Engineer

• Attractive package including heavily subsidised housing.
• Culturally unique and coastal location – Gove

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Reliability Engineer to provide strategies and tactics that enable cost effective, timely and safe maintenance to occur, ensuring assets are consistently available to meet the operational plan requirements.

The role could be either residential based in Gove or there are FIFO options out of, Cairns, Darwin, or Brisbane.

This role is a great opportunity for an analytical, safety focused Reliability Engineer who thrives on ensuring materials handling machinery works effectively and efficiently.

Reporting to the Site Senior Reliability Engineer, you will be:

• Using data and reliability principles to focus improvement effort in obtaining optimal availability of the equipment.
• Facilitating and completing RCA’s
• Reviewing, developing, and improving maintenance tactics.
• Focusing on turning maintenance tactics into effective work instructions.
• Undertaking reliability performance evaluations, prediction, and standardised reporting.
• Work with other reliability engineers to complete delay accounting and trigger action response
• Develop weekly downtime metrics for critical assets.
• Leading and implementing improvement initiatives through data analysis and new technology.
• The ability to provide technical support to operational teams and build strong working relationships.
• Project Management experience
• Proven leadership skills with highly developed problem-solving ability.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Valid Australian C class manual driver’s license

What you will bring

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

• Degree qualification or a solid background in a mechanical / electrical maintenance or engineering role with a strong focus on reliability engineering.
• Safety focused with the knowledge and experience with fixed plant and bulk materials handling.
• Ability to collect and analysis data to provide outcomes on how to make machinery work more effectively.

What we offer

• Domestic relocation assistance on offer
• Remote area allowance (residential) or FIFO allowance
• Remote area holiday travel assistance
• Heavily subsidised housing and utilities
• Up to 9 Months Paid parental leave (no distinction between primary or 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

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 almost 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.

Where you will be working

Our Gove Operations have been supplying the global aluminium industry with world-class bauxite for more than 40 years. Located in Australia’s Northern Territory, each year the operation produces approximately 12 million tonnes of bauxite.

With a workforce of 460 people, daily activities include mine operations, maintenance, asset management, shutdown planning and execution, export operations, cultural heritage management, and closure activities following our decision to close the site’s alumina refinery and associated Residue Disposal Area in 2017. 

We expect our bauxite mining operations on the Gove Peninsula will cease in 2030 and we are undertaking significant work to support closure of the operation. We also recognise our operations take place on Indigenous-owned land, and we are committed to working together to achieve a positive future for Nhulunbuy and the Gove Peninsula post-mining.

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.

Closing date: 25^th October 2023