Maintenance Engineer, Conveyors

Maintenance Engineer, Conveyors – Cape Lambert

• Challenge, identify and develop strategies to improve conveyor reliability
• Utilise your knowledge of conveyors to provide technical support across site
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to deliver high quality outcomes
• Opportunity to work at Cape Lambert on a FIFO or residential basis

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for an experienced Maintenance Engineer, Conveyors to join our team to provide technical expertise and support on conveyor systems across Cape Lambert A (CLA) and Cape Lambert B (CLB) ports.

This role presents a fantastic opportunity to draw on your technical knowledge in an operational environment. It offers a diverse work profile, which includes assisting the maintenance, operations and belts teams with breakdown support; defect elimination; investigations; and improvement projects related to conveyors across site.

Reporting to the Senior Engineer, and working in a challenging and exciting environment, you will:

• Provide conveyor-related technical support to the operations, maintenance and belts teams
• Provide infield advice on conveyor setup and providing secondary QA/QC functions
• Develop and review metrics related to conveyor reliability
• Document belt improvements and look to replicate across other conveyor assets to improve safety and reliability
• Facilitate and assist in investigations for conveyor related failures as an SME, and coordinate remedial actions to address the root cause
• Be a liaison between the central engineering, belts and site teams
• Collaborate with the central conveyors team to ensure high quality investigations and projects

About you

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

• A Tertiary qualification in Engineering
• A Current "C Class" WA Driver’s licence
• Industry experience in bulk material handling
• Exposure to conveyor modelling software and design
• Familiarity with equipment failure investigation (5 Whys, RCA)
• A strong focus towards safety and safe work practices
• Ability to progress multiple projects simultaneously
• Knowledge of the SAP system in a maintenance environment 
• An ability to convert technical knowledge into practical instruction
• Strong interpersonal skills, including good oral and written skills

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Flexible working from home arrangements as per operational requirements
• 18 weeks of gender-neutral and equal paid parental leave, with continued superannuation contributions whilst employees are on unpaid, or half paid parental leave
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)

Where you will be working

Located 50km east of Karratha, the Cape Lambert port facilities consist of 2 shipping terminals which form an essential part of our supply chain process.

This is a great opportunity for enthusiastic individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is seeking a rewarding technical role.

This role is based at Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s Cape Lambert port working 5/2/4/3 roster on a FIFO out of Perth or residential basis (Wickham or Karratha).

About us

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.

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.

Applications close 24 March 2023(Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)