Process Control Engineer

Engineer Process Control – Yandicoogina – FIFO 5/2/4/3 

• Do you want to join a dynamic multi-disciplined team of technical experts who are truly passionate about what they do?
• Do you have an inquisitive mind and are you looking for a real opportunity to extend your technical expertise with real leadership progression opportunities?
• Are you looking for a role with a company where you will be recognised for your contribution and your hard work?
• Family friendly fly in fly out roster of 5 days on, 2 off. 4 Days on, 3 off.

About the role

We are looking for a Process Control Engineer to provide technical support and leadership for operations and maintenance staff, assisting in improving plant availability and performance in order to maximise plant throughput whilst minimising the associated costs. Optimisation and improvement of the process plant will be a key role.

Reporting to the Senior Process Engineer, you will:

• Tune and optimize regulatory control loops
• Develop, monitor and maintain advanced process control schemes
• Provide support in developing processing metrics, ensuring data fidelity and accurate reporting
• Provide support to process improvement projects in order to reduce HSEQ risk, improve plant performance and reduce business costs
• Ensure compliance to RTIO standards and industry best practice, and sustainability of changes through first party assurance and governance of site control systems engineering processes

Your day to day, as the Process Control SME will see you provide technical support and leadership to fixed plant Operations and Maintenance teams. You will also assist in improving plant availability and performance to maximise plant throughput whilst minimising the associated costs.

• Ensuring plant capacity is fully optimised and production targets are met
• Identifying process improvement opportunities
• Compiling daily, weekly, and monthly plant reports for the management team
• Providing technical support and advice to all operation crews and frontline leaders
• Fostering a culture of zero harm

About you

A team focus and ‘can-do’ approach will ensure your success in this role.

• Tertiary qualifications in Electrical, Chemical or Control Systems Engineering.
• Programming and maintenance of control system platforms. Experience in Schneider PLCs (Quantum, M580s) highly regarded.
• Programming and development of SCADA systems.
• Experience in data management platforms, historians including OSI PI and SQL databases
• Experience in Microsoft suite of programs including Power BI (Advanced skills in Excel will be highly regarded)
• Experience in developing and maintaining advanced process control schemes. This includes but not limited to constraint control systems and model predictive control schemes.
• Experience in various data analytics methodologies
• A growth mindset & drive, to be open to new ideas to continuously improve and support our Plant, our Team & ourselves
• A ‘C’ class driver’s license is required
• Functional safety experience, while not required, will be highly regarded.

Where you will be working

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, Rio Tinto operates the world's largest integrated portfolio of iron ore assets with industry-leading margins. Our premium product suite, including our flagship Pilbara blend, drives strong customer relationships and is supported by technical and commercial marketing expertise. The iron ore business continues to be the world's largest autonomous truck operator and a proud leader in automated mining technologies.

Located 95km north-west of Newman, Yandicoogina offers a range of fly in fly out rosters. As one of Australia's largest-producing iron ore mines; operating a fleet of autonomous trucks and drills, it generates more than 55 million tonnes of Hammersley Iron Yandi (HIY) fines each year.

Yandicoogina is known for its culture of teamwork, can-do attitude and pioneering spirit, leading the way with innovation and technological advances in autonomous operations and robotics.

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.

If you are looking for a new challenge, great location and an exceptional team of technical experts, apply now.

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.

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Applications close on Friday 16th September 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)