Production Advisor - Materials Handling

Production Advisor - Materials Handling 

• Proactive and dynamic business culture
• Ongoing training and development
• Life friendly coastal location - Gladstone

About the role 

We are looking for a Production Advisor - Materials Handling to create and maintain a safe, predictable, and stable operation by analysing performance and identifying improvements opportunities. 

This role is a great opportunity for a performance and achievement orientated professional who excels with relationship management enabling you to influence and lead successful change in a challenging and complex environment. Reporting to the Production Specialist - Material Handling, you will be: 

• Verifying and improving operating standards, procedures and work instructions for bauxite, alumina, hydrate, caustic, process neutralisation and coal train unloading / loading operations benchmarking, monitoring and analysing the plant performance.
• Generating practical, sustainable solutions to drive stability and/or lift plant capability.
• Coordinating vessel loading and unloading activities and maintenance work to meet target completion dates and technical specifications.
• Monitoring instruments and equipment and collecting operating data.
• Supporting implementation of solutions by facilitating the management of change process, driving accountability for the implementation plan and validating the project has delivered value.

What you’ll bring

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

• Mechanical / Production, Port Trade or Degree qualified with experience in a continuous improvement role that has a focus on port and materials handling.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications with excellent relationship management, influencing and negotiating skills
• Ability to work well under pressure bringing a high attention to detail and the consistent ability to meet multiple deadlines.
• A strong understanding of safe operations and safe behaviour fundamentals.
• Verifying and improving operating standards, procedures and work instructions for bauxite, alumina, hydrate, caustic, process neutralisation handling plant and coal train unloading / loading operations
• Supporting implementation of solutions by facilitating the management of change process, driving accountability for the implementation plan, and validating the project has delivered value.

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Lean and Six Sigma business improvement qualification with experience in a Business Solution system such as SAP
• Understand Stockpile Management systems
• Managed HME
• Have port or Stockpile experience

What we offer

• Be recognised for your contribution, you’re 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
• 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’ll be working

With production beginning in 2004 at our Yarwun alumina refinery, located approximately 10 kilometres north-west of Gladstone in Central Queensland, today the operation produces more than three million tonnes of alumina per year.

Around 700 people support the operation, with an additional 350 contractors on site each year as part of scheduled maintenance shutdown activities. Thanks to its ‘Industry 4.0’ focus, Yarwun is also a leader in trialling new technologies to improve operations on site, including 3D printing, robotics and drones in confined spaces, and is home to Rio Tinto’s innovative Queensland Research and Development Centre (QRDC).

Along with Boyne Smelters Limited and Queensland Alumina Limited, our Yarwun Operation supports the local community in a wide range of initiatives through Here for Gladstone.

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.