Heavy Mobile Equipment - Inspector

Heavy Maintenance Equipment - Inspector 

We encourage women and Indigenous Peoples to apply, as we advance our business to more accurately reflect the world around us.

• The perfect balance, our roster gives you more time for the things that are important in your life and to your family and community
• Fantastic opportunity to take a step up in your career
• 8/6 FIFO roster DAYS ONLY

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.

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.

About the role

Take the next step in your mobile maintenance career as a Heavy Maintenance Equipment Inspector within the Mobile Maintenance Asset Health Team at Gudai-Darri.

This role is a great opportunity for an enthusiastic, ‘hands on’ individual who is looking to take ownership of the fleet by applying their technical knowledge to undertake regular equipment inspections & repairs to our Caterpillar 6060 & 6040 Excavators, Caterpillar 994 & 992 Loaders and Caterpillar ancillary fleet, working with the team of other HME Inspectors and Asset Health Technicians.

The Equipment Inspector is to become the “eyes and ears” of the planning and execution teams, actively monitoring assets and providing regular reports of condition back to the Planning and Execution teams.

Reporting to the Asset Health Supervisor and working 8 days on, 6 days off FIFO roster from Perth or Busselton you will be required to:

• Conduct routine inspections on our heavy mobile equipment
• Maintain a high level of safety awareness and comply with all RTIO Company Policies and procedures
• Actively contribute to continuous improvement projects – increasing safety whilst reducing risk & cost
• Utilise SAP to ensure that maintenance tasks are recorded, assigned correctly, and completed to the relevant standard / specification 
• Work autonomously, working on new fleet

• Good stakeholder engagement- Working in with planning teams to prioritize work required and reviewing outstanding work to be completed to optimise down time on all our fleet
• Pro-actively seek opportune times to complete inspections to reduce downtime and impact on the business.
• Work with Mine Ops to schedule inspections each day to minimise impact on production.
• Ensure all notifications raised are completed to a high standard.
• Key contributor to building a maintenance schedule that allows the equipment to operate safe & reliably (no breakdowns between services) while minimizing the time of each service (not striving to make the equipment brand new)

The Equipment Inspector is expected too:

• Pro-actively seek opportune times to complete inspections to reduce downtime and impact on the business.
• Under the oversight of the Engineer, manage their own scheduled work ensuring 100% compliance each week.
• Work with Mine Ops to schedule inspections each day to minimise impact on production.
• Ensure all notifications raised are completed to a high standard.
• Pro-actively ensure notifications raised are actioned by planning and execution in the appropriate time frame to ensure repair is completed before failure occurs.
• Where possible assist execution to maximize availabilities i.e. the inspector may have to perform minor repairs (less than 10 minutes) or larger repairs if scheduling permits.
• Responsible to oversee forward log accuracy
• Prioritizing the forward log based on risk
• Key contributor to building a maintenance schedule that allows the equipment to operate safe & reliably (no breakdowns between services) while minimizing the time of each service (not striving to make the equipment brand new)

What you will bring

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

• Heavy-Duty Fitter Trade Qualification
• Comprehensive knowledge of Heavy Mobile Equipment
• Solid history in surface mining
• Excellent diagnostic and fault-finding abilities
• Good understanding of SAP maintenance systems or similar
• An Australian C Class manual drivers’ licence or higher
• High Risk Licences – Elevated Work Platform, EWP, Forklift
• Current working rights for Austrlia without requiring sponsorship.

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto on our newest mine site
• 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 & salary packaging options
• 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)

Applications for this role will close on 9/08/2025, however we do reserve the right to close the role earlier than stated.

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About Rio TintoRio 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 situations and meet opportunities.

Every Voice MattersAt 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.