Reliability Engineering - Fixed Plant

Reliability Engineer – Fixed Plant

• Global mining organisation with an exceptional safety culture
• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
• Heavily Subsidised housing and utilities
• Residential role based in the beautiful tropical coastal town of Gove

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Reliability Engineer to provide root cause analysis, fault finding and strategies and tactics that ensure sustainable asset value is delivered in a safe, standardized and consistent manner.

This role is a great opportunity for a skilled, safety focused Reliability Engineer who thrives on ensuring materials handling machinery is available for safe efficient operation.

Reporting to the Senior Reliability Engineer and working in a collaborative, exciting environment you will:

• Using data and reliability principles to focus improvement effort in obtaining optimal availability of the equipment.
• Developing, reviewing and improving strategies and tactics to optimize risk, performance and cost of our assets.
• Undertaking reliability performance evaluations, prediction and standardized reporting.
• Lead and conduct root cause analysis (RCA) for fixed plant asset failures.
• Conducting Incident investigations following significant production losses.
• Working with the condition monitoring team to understand asset health and to develop risk mitigation strategies.
• Participating in asset criticality assessments to drive maintenance priorities.
• Manage and execute defect elimination projects to improve plant performance and reliability.

What you will bring:

• Site based reliability engineering experience in a bulk material handling environment.
• Bachelor of Mechanical or Electrical Engineering with a solid background in a maintenance or engineering role.
• Safety focused with the knowledge and experience with fixed plant equipment.
• Ability to collect and analyze data to provide outcomes on how to make machinery work more effectively.
• Knowledge of variable speed equipment crushing plants
• Proficient in the use of SAP or similar CMMS

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• ProAct RCA or APM experience
• CITECT SCADA experience

What we offer

• Domestic relocation assistance on offer
• Remote area allowance
• Remote area holiday travel assistance
• Heavily subsidised housing and utilities
• Up to 9 Months Paid parental leave (no distinction between primary or secondary carer)
• Health cover scheme for employees and their immediate family
• Salary sacrifice & packaging options – rental, mortgage, super, vehicle
• Rio Tinto employee share programme
• Employee discounts – banking, accommodation, motoring, retail and more.

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.

Where you will be working

Our Gove Operations have been supplying the global aluminium industry with world-class bauxite for more than 40 years. Located in Australia’s Northern Territory, each year the operation produces approximately 12 million tonnes of bauxite.

With a workforce of 460 people, daily activities include mine operations, maintenance, asset management, shutdown planning and execution, export operations, cultural heritage management, and closure activities following our decision to close the site’s alumina refinery and associated Residue Disposal Area in 2017. 

We expect our bauxite mining operations on the Gove Peninsula will cease in 2030 and we are undertaking significant work to support closure of the operation. We also recognise our operations take place on Indigenous-owned land, and we are committed to working together to achieve a positive future for Nhulunbuy and the Gove Peninsula post-mining.

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.