Officer Isolation

Isolations Officer – West Angelas

• Be part of a team that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Contribute to the operational performance at the West Angelas mine site
• Permanent role with 8/6 roster rotation (from Perth, Busselton, or Broome)
• Continue to build your career with opportunities for future advancement

About the role

The Team at Rio Tinto’s West Angelas Fixed Plant Operations seek an experienced Isolations Officer to join us on a permanent basis, FIFO from Perth on 8 days on, 6 days off roster.

Reporting to the Shutdown Maintenance Supervisor, and working in a collaborative, exciting environment within the Asset Management team you will provide the isolation plans for shutdowns.

You will be responsible for;

• Ensuring permits are prepared and remain compliant with our procedures throughout the permit to work process.
• Confirming that hazards and controls are clearly defined and signed off by authorised personnel.
• The preparation of work permits and assigning of Isolation Lists are specific to the scope of work.
• Liaising with internal stakeholders to ensure the isolation of equipment is undertaken safely.
• Ensuring Work Orders / JSEA’s / Work Instruction’s / Team Based Risk Assessments (TBRAs) have been received from the Permit Acceptor.
• Authorising the issue of Permits and Certificates.
• Drive continued improvements within the permitting & isolation space
• An advantage would be having prior experience implementing / using electronic permitting systems.

What you’ll bring

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

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Previous experience working in a similar role and environment.
• Exposure to hazard identification and management.
• An understanding of isolations, P&IDs, work permit processes, WHS requirements, legislation, and risk assessment processes.
• The ability to coordinate with multiple people across departments.
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
• Clear understanding of integrated management systems, word processing, presentations and spread sheets.
• Previous exposure to Intellipermit or similar electronic permitting systems (advantageous)

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• 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 employee share scheme, extensive salary sacrifice and salary packaging options, and exclusive employee discount schemes
• Industry leading 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.

Where you will be working

This position is based at West Angelas, working 8/6 roster from Perth.

Located 110km west of Newman, West Angelas operates on a fly in fly out roster from Perth, Broome and Busselton.

West Angelas is a pioneer in autonomous technologies – we were the first site to trial autonomous haul trucks and incorporate autonomous drilling into our operations in 2008, and we continue to have one of the largest mining fleets in the Pilbara.

Our high grade, low phosphorous Marra Mamba orebody is an integral part of the Pilbara Blend, contributing both lump and fines products on around four trains each day. At the West Angelas hub there are state-of-the-art power generation and refueling facilities. These facilities supply power and diesel fuel to the East Pilbara mine sites.

The future is bright at West Angelas with ongoing growth projects at Deposits C and D, as well as additional deposits under study providing enormous opportunities for personal development and career growth

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. 

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. 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.

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Applications close on 19 January 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)