Senior Engineer Maintenance

Senior Maintenance Engineer - MEM

• Utilise your technical expertise in mobile equipment maintenance and reliability to provide day to day technical support for maintenance delivery
• Real opportunity to make an impact and advance your career
• Unique opportunity to be exposed to and support newest generation autonomous Heavy Mobile Equipment

Where we’re all welcome 

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. 

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 acknowledge that all people are different and believe that our differences are our strength. The diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together.

About the role

We are currently looking for a Senior Mobile Maintenance Engineer to work with our diversified fleet of equipment, gain exposure to a wide variety of equipment.

In this role, you will provide tangible leadership and technical assistance and advice on the effectiveness of maintenance and continuous improvement practices and processes whilst developing, coaching and mentoring a team of maintenance engineering professionals. You will also create value through the management of continuous improvement initiatives and the defect elimination programme leveraging off the common approach used across Rio Tinto.

You’ll be part of a supportive team, supported by your Leader to grow and achieve your own personal goals as well as the goals of the team. You’ll work on an 8 & 6 roster which will give you more time to spend on the things that are important to you and the people in your life. 

Reporting to the Manager MEM, you will:

• Coach and mentor the mobile equipment maintenance engineering team
• Drive standardisation and replication of best maintenance engineering practice
• Ensure that cost saving / productivity improvement initiatives are adequately quantified and tracked via internal systems
• Champion the site 5 Why’s continuous improvement process and drive the implementation of reliability and maintenance improvement initiatives
• Provide support to the MEM team with correct processes application for effective critical spares analysis and PM optimisation
• Partner with internal stakeholders to ensure close alignment and integration with the maintenance engineering functions and to support HSE investigations as necessary

About you 

• Tertiary qualifications in mechanical engineering or relevant trade certificate desirable but not essential
• Demonstrated technical maintenance/ engineering experience
• Demonstrated ability to engage with maintenance stakeholders to identify and resolve defects
• Experience working in a heavy mobile equipment workshop
• Strong focus towards safety and safe work practices
• An ability to work collaboratively in small teams, and demonstrate adaptability
• Experience in prioritising and delivering continuous improvement initiatives and projects
• Deep experience and understanding of reliability-based maintenance & practical problem solving
• A manual “C” class driver’s license

If you are excited about the role and think you have what it takes but your experience doesn't align 100% we still want to hear from you. 

We are committed to promoting diversity within Rio Tinto and as a special measure to we strongly encourage women to apply.

What we offer

• Be recognised for your contribution, your 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
• Full relocation provided to Western Australia from elsewhere in Australia
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive bonus
• 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, cultural leave)
• To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them
• Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more, read more about the huge range of benefits here: https://bit.ly/43AQLue

Where you will be working

Located 100km north-west of Newman, Hope Downs 1 is a joint venture managed and operated by Rio Tinto, working in conjunction with nearby site Hope Downs 4. Hope Downs 1 provides exceptional career growth and opportunities and the village provides excellent facilities for its FIFO workers.

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.

Ready to experience something unique? Come work withus.

Pleasenote, to be successfully considered for this role you must complete allpre-screening questions. This role is for applicants residing in or willing topermanently relocate to Western Australia. Rio Tinto offers Fly in and fly outoptions from Perth, our regional FIFO hubs, and the opportunity to live in ourresidential towns where applicable.

Applications close on 14^th of February 2024 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).