Principal Heavy Mobile Equipment Engineering

Principal Heavy Mobile Equipment Engineering

• Deliver world-class engineering and asset management services across a diverse portfolio and stakeholder base
• Drive innovation and promote value-added growth as part of your work
• Enjoy flexible working arrangements such as work location and hours, based nominally at the Operations Centre & Perth Central Park with travel to site to build and maintain key partnerships.

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We are looking for a Principal Heavy Mobile Equipment Engineering to deliver world-class Heavy Mobile Equipment (HME) asset management and engineering support across our integrated portfolio of iron ore assets.

This role is a great opportunity to develop your technical leadership skills where your talents will be exposed to the wider Maintenance Planning and Engineering team, and Iron Ore business.

We are an open and connected team, that offers competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

Reporting to the Manager HME Engineering, this is a great opportunity for a technical leader with great communication skills to lead a technical team. You will be joining an experienced and knowledgeable group of HME subject matter experts whose expertise spans across HME engineering, reliability, asset specifications, fleet planning and strategy within our Iron Ore, Maintenance Planning and Engineering department.

In this role, you will be:

• Leading our centralized HME Fleet Engineering program, focused on safety, cost and performance improvement initiatives across our HME assets;
• Partnering with our HME original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to collaboratively develop engineering solutions for immediate problems (or short-term fixes) as well as long-term strategic improvements;
• Regularly engaging with each of the iron ore sites, predominantly maintenance and reliability engineers and maintenance leaders, to assist in problem-solving and troubleshooting HME-related performance issues from an engineering perspective;
• Maintaining visibility of site-based HME initiatives, to ensure alignment with centralized engineering improvement work;
• Supporting key ad-hoc and strategic safety improvement goals, through incident investigation capability for HME-related events, projects focused on risk reduction and Elimination of Live Work, and best-practice replication;
• Coaching and mentoring team members, partners and stakeholders on best-practice HME asset management principles and processes;
• Working with our procurement function to engage our OEMs and suppliers with relation to manufacturer-related concerns and opportunities.

What you’ll bring

It is crucial for success in this role that you bring a deep curiosity to your work, one that drives you to challenge the status-quo and present solutions that will help us to work smarter each and every day. This coupled with the courage to take risks, learning as much from your mistakes as the successes, will see you champion the normalisation of failure as a pathway to ultimate success coupled with a demonstrated commitment to safety, wellness, environment heritage and community.

You will be an experienced practician across maintenance, reliability, or asset management with a well-developed understanding of reliability-centered maintenance, change management and best practice asset management principles. Previous experience working with a Heavy Mobile Equipment portfolio base, or the demonstrated ability to transfer your technical understanding of asset management principles into new areas will see you thrive in this role.

It is important to have well-developed engagement skills, allowing you to effectively communicate and influence across a multi-layered and diverse stakeholder base whilst leading a small technical team to success, through effective goal setting, coaching and support.

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress. 

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• 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
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• 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)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins witha 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’ll be working

Our integrated iron ore network is supported by our Operations Centre (OC) in Perth, a state-of-the-art facility that enables all the autonomous trucks, trains and drills at our mines, ports and rail systems to be operated from a single location. The Centre incorporates visualisation and collaboration tools to provide real-time information across our demand chain and allows us to optimise our mining, maintenance and logistic activities across the Pilbara in a way never before possible. Located near the Perth domestic airport, the OC operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to coordinate our integrated network of mines, rail, and ports from 1,500km away.

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 on 29^th January 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)