Mechanical Maintenance Technician - Residential Gladstone

Excited to grow your career?We value our talented workforce, and whenever possible strive to help our employees grow professionally. If you think this position is right for you, we encourage you to speak to your Leader and go ahead and apply!Our people make all the difference in our success.

• The perfect balance, our day shift lifestyle roster in Digest Turnarounds gives you more time for the things that are important in your life and to your family and community

• Permanent employment in Gladstone which includes attractive salary, annual bonuses and a huge range of additional benefits which are designed to make your life better

About the roleAs a Mechanical Technician in the Digestion Turnarounds team at our Yarwun Refinery, you will play a crucial role in maintaining assets within our maintenance management framework. You will be responsible for applying work management processes and performing maintenance work allocated ensuring the reliability and efficiency of our assets.

At Yarwun, we are passionate about safety, we look out for each other and work together to find better ways to do things.  You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your development and will help you achieve your career goals. 

Reporting to the Maintenance Digestion – Turnarounds Team Leader and working a 5/5/4 dayshift roster, your role may involve:

• Maintaining mechanical assets across the refinery, focused on planned maintenance or plant limiting work, troubleshooting and problem-solving equipment failures and improving reliability

• Working on pipes, tanks, pumps, valves & flange management

• Confined space and working at heights activities

• Working autonomously, being reliable and positively contributing to the maintenance team, understanding the requirement to maintain assets in a safe and reliable condition

• Identifying and implementing improvement initiatives which will involve working with many different disciplines within the organisation

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• Respect for others and an all-inclusive mindset

• A Mechanical trade qualification

• Valid C Class drivers licence

• Proven maintenance experience working in heavy industry

• Proven history of fault finding and repairs on various fixed plant equipment

Where you’ll be working

Located in Central Queensland, approximately 10km north-west of Gladstone, Yarwun alumina refinery commenced operations in 2004. Processing bauxite from our mines in Weipa and Gove, Yarwun produces more than three million tonnes of smelter grade alumina annually.

As one of the largest industries in the Gladstone region, Yarwun employs over 700 people and has a large contractor workforce.

With a focus on safely improving our process every day, the team at Yarwun challenge themselves to use existing and emerging technology to support our 24 hour operation.

Yarwun is a proud member of the Gladstone community, and along with Boyne Smelters Limited and Queensland Alumina Limited, support community investments that improve the liveability of the Gladstone region through the Here for Gladstone community fund.

Salary Band

Every Voice MattersAt Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ 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.