Reliability Engineer

Reliability Engineer – Track Machines and Ancillary assets

• Great work life balance roster
• Exciting opportunity for professional career in Rail
• Enjoy the spoils of coastal living in Karratha
• 5:2 4:3 Roster - Residential Karratha or FIFO from Perth

About the role

We are looking for an Engineer Reliability – Track Machines and Ancillary assets to be part of the Regional Rolling Stock Maintenance Engineering Team at Dampier. The primary function of the role is to improve asset reliability and cost through reliability analysis and delivery of reliability improvements on track machines and ancillary assets that are currently used to maintain our 1700km rail network. Track machines and ancillary assets include, but not limited to ballast cleaner, ballast trains, rail trains, fuel trains, mobile flash butt welders, mainline/switch tampers, regulators, pettibones, bobcats, railkings etc.

This role is a great opportunity for an expert in Root Cause Analysis and maintenance tactics for Track machine and ancillary assets to join our diverse and technical team of experts. Reporting to the Senior Engineer, you will be:

• Responsible for Track machine & Ancillary Assets Defect Elimination process - Identify & prioritise defects, facilitate / participate in root cause analysis and manage the critical defect elimination project portfolio for track machine & ancillary assets.
• Improve site MTBF and MTTR by using rail system reliability modelling and RCA process.
• Conduct reliability analysis and interpret failures or unscheduled loss/cost data and make valuable recommendations to improve our business. This requires investigating faults recorded in daily maintenance shifts logs and SAP notification/workorders.
• Work closely with track machine, ballast cleaner and wagon maintenance superintendents, supervisors and maintainers to obtain the necessary support to implement defect elimination culture at all levels.
• Provide technical support to the maintenance team to resolve asset breakdowns. Develop scope of work, methodology and ensure compliance to relevant standards for short term projects.
• Support the maintenance team with asset management and work management skills.
• Engagement of external vendors where needed for short & long term projects.

About you

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

• Bachelor of Engineering – Mechanical / Mechatronics / Electrical / Electronics.
• Understanding rail safe operating procedures.
• Relevant engineering experience in heavy haul rail environment, railway maintenance machineries, heavy mobile equipments, reliability practices etc.
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and problem-solving techniques.
• Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and maintenance strategy development skills.
• Failure-Mode-Effect-Criticality-Analysis (FMECA) facilitation skills.
• Understanding of project management principles
• Understanding of the data analytical tools: Power BI, Spotfire, Excel, SAP and APM. Experience with programming languages and SQL is desirable.
• C Class Driving Licence

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.

About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive. We have been mining for almost 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win and meet opportunities.

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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.