Senior Engineer Maintenance

Senior Engineer Maintenance – Paraburdoo Pilbara

• Leading in mining
• Respect, recognition, reward
• 5 days on, 2 days off, 4 days on, 3 days off fly in, fly out from Perth or residential in Paraburdoo

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s Maintenance Operations is looking to recruit a Senior Engineer Maintenance to join their Mobile Equipment Maintenance (MEM) team at the Paraburdoo mine operations in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. 

In this role, you will provide technical engineering support, ensuring the safe and reliable maintenance of the heavy mobile equipment fleet. Additionally, you will provide on-going coaching and development to the maintenance team, enabling our people to be their best and continually innovate and challenge the way work is done.

This role provides a great opportunity develop, coach and mentor a team of maintenance professionals. You will have the ability to create value through the management of continuous improvement initiatives and the Defect Elimination programme, whilst developing your operational leadership skills. 

Reporting to the Manager MEM key responsibilities for the role will be to:

• Lead and manage site improvement projects to optimise asset performance, reliability, availability and maintainability in conjunction with the central MPE and functions teams
• Ensure maintenance best practices are safely utilised to maximise equipment reliability and minimise the time and cost of repairs
• Review and optimise preventative maintenance planning and scheduling activities
• Ensure cost saving / productivity improvement initiatives are adequately quantified and tracked via the use of internal systems
• Lead and support failure investigations and plant performance analysis
• Liaise closely with PBO MEM Superintendents to ensure alignment of common goals, priorities and service delivery expectations.
• Maintain positive and supportive relationships with relevant site and central stakeholders, specialists and subject matter experts

This position will support the Paraburdoo mine operations working on a fly in, fly out roster 5 days on, 2 days off, 4 days on, 3 days off from Perth in Western Australia or residential in Paraburdoo. 

Where you’ll be working

Located 1500 north of Perth in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, the Paraburdoo Operation commenced iron ore production from the beginning of 1972. It has the capacity to produce 25 million tonnes (MT) per annum. The geographic spread of Paraburdoo Operation consists of Channar (1990) and Eastern Range (2004) feeding the ore into our main hub processing plant. Conveyer belts are our primary mode of transporting crushed ore from one end to the other – longest to be noted is approximately 25 km in length.

Our Mobile Equipment fleet consists of 35x Komatsu 830E Haul Trucks, 7x 2500 & 3600 Hitachi Excavator, 3 x 1850 Le Tourneau, and others.

What you’ll bring

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

• A passion and enthusiasm to continually improve safety, production and cost
• A Mechanical Engineering degree
• Significant experience in heavy mobile equipment maintenance within the mining industry
• Demonstrated skillset in project management
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams
• An ability to work collaboratively with team members and key stakeholders across the business
• Demonstrated knowledge of RCA techniques and SAP or similar CMMS
• A current ‘C’ Class drivers’ licence 

You will be a Perth resident or someone willing to relocate to Perth on a permanent basis and you will have unrestricted and full eligibility for employment within Australian. 

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Flexible working from home arrangements as per operational requirements
• 18 weeks of gender-neutral and equal paid parental leave, with continued superannuation contributions whilst employees are on unpaid or half paid parental leave
• 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); and
• Local relocation packages offered for Australian residents only

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 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.

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.

Applications close on 10 Nov 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)