Senior Maintenance Engineer

Senior Maintenance Engineer – Tom Price operation

·       Join a leading global company

·       Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits

·       5 days on, 2 days off, 4 days on, 3 days off fly in, fly out of Perth, or residential in Tom Price

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Senior Maintenance Engineer to join our Mobile Equipment Maintenance (MEM) team in Greater Tom Price.  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 provides a great opportunity develop, coach and mentor a team of 8-10 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 MEM Superintendent, you will:

• 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 GTP 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

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
• Three years maintenance or reliability engineering experience 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 

This position will be offered on a fly in, fly out roster from Perth (5 days on, 2 days off, 4 days on, 3 days off) and will suit Perth residents or those willing to relocate to Perth on a permanent basis. There is opportunity for those seeking a lifestyle change of being residential to Tom Price. 

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

In the Pilbara regionof Western Australia, we own an integrated portfolio of iron ore assets: aworld-class, integrated network of 17 mines, four independent port terminals, arail network spanning nearly 2,000 kilometres and related infrastructure – alldesigned to respond rapidly to changes in demand. We are one of theworld’s leading producers and exporters of iron ore.

Where you’ll be working

Tom Price is located in the central Pilbara region of Western Australia, west of Karijini National Park and is our original Pilbara mine, currently employing residential and fly in fly out employees. It is known as one of the most attractive towns in the Pilbara with a high school, two primary schools, a hospital and a high standard of recreational facilities.

Every Voice Matters

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.

Applications close on 17 March 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)