Senior Maintenance Engineer

Senior Maintenance Engineer – Heavy Mobile Equipment - Hope Downs 4 Operation

• Join a leading global company
• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
• 8 days on, 6 days off, fly in, fly out of Perth

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 supporting the Hope Downs 4 operation in the Pilbara. 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.

You will also lead a number of industry-leading Maintenance Productivity and Precision Maintenance initiatives.

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 MEM Manager, you will:

• Lead and manage site improvement projects to optimise asset performance, reliability, availability and maintainability with support from our central engineering and subject matter expert teams.
• Ensure maintenance best practices are safely implemented 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 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
• Further education in Maintenance engineering best practice.
• Experience in maintenance productivity improvement and the application of LEAN.
• Experience in Precision Maintenance, Shutdown support and Hydrocarbon Management.
• More than 5 years’ experience in Maintenance and Reliability Engineering within the mining or similar heavy industry.
• Prior experience in heavy mobile equipment highly beneficial.
• 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 (8 days on, 6 days off) and will suit Perth residents or those willing to relocate to Perth on a permanent basis.

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

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 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. 

Where you’ll be working

Located 50km north-west of Newman in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, Hope Downs 4 is a joint venture managed and operated by Rio Tinto, working in conjunction with nearby site Hope Downs 1. Hope Downs 4 provides excellent career growth and opportunities, and the village provides excellent facilities for its FIFO workers.

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 1 May 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)