Senior Engineer Maintenance MEM

Senior Maintenance Engineer

• Work for a global mining company with generous employee rewards and benefits
• Become a part of a close knit team where safety is priority
• 5 days on, 2 days off, 4 days on, 3 days off – FIFO

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We are looking for a Senior Maintenance Engineer to join our Brockman 4 Mobile Equipment Maintenance (MEM) team. 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 department, enabling our people to be their best and continually innovate and challenge the way work is done.

This role is a great opportunity for individuals looking to work in a dynamic maintenance environment where you can influence safety and reliability which covers execution, maintenance planning and engineering, whilst developing your operational leadership skills.

Reporting to the Brockman 4 Manager Mobile Equipment Maintenance, you will:

• Identify, lead and drive improvement in mobile maintenance
• 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
• Engage and collaborate with operational and other key stakeholders

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
• Tertiary engineering qualifications or relevant trade certificate with demonstrated technical maintenance/ engineering experience
• Demonstrated maintenance or reliability engineering experience
• Knowledge of maintenance and reliability processes and systems
• The ability to be adaptable, flexible and resilient
• Demonstrated knowledge of SAP or similar CMMS
• A current ‘C’ Class drivers’ licence 

To be successfully considered for this role, you will need to have demonstrated experience of:

• Strong safety leadership qualities
• Strong partnership with operations and maintenance
• Managed multidisciplinary teams
• Ability to work collaboratively with team members and key stakeholders across the business

About you

Where you will be working

Located 60km north-west of Tom Price, Brockman4 Operations are wholly owned and operated by Rio Tinto. GBO has a dedicated airport, state-of-the-art camp facilities and family friendly rosters making it an exciting and pleasant place to work at.

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
• 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
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
• 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)

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.

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.

This role is for applicants residing in or willing to permanently relocate to Western Australia. Rio Tinto offers Fly in and fly out options from Perth, our regional FIFO hubs and the opportunity to live in our residential towns where applicable.

Applications close on 5 December 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).