Specialist Dust Assets

Specialist Dust Assets

• Access to industry-leading technical development programmes
• Contribute to the improvement in asset management of dust assets across the Rio Tinto Iron Ore business
• Dynamic, challenging and rewarding opportunity to be part of the Fixed Plant & Engineering team
• Operations Centre working Monday to Friday with flexible working arrangements

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Specialist Dust Assets to join the Maintenance Planning and Engineering team.

This is a great opportunity to lead the business direction, management and improvement of dust assets across the Iron Ore portfolio to enable improved health, environmental and communities outcomes.

Reporting to the Principal Engineering Services and working in a collaborative team environment, you will be responsible for: 

• Development of maintenance strategies for dust assets;
• Enhancement and management of associated engineering standards;
• Development and execution of dust asset strategy including supporting capital planning;
• Active involvement in the business dust mitigation working group;
• Technical support for the dust assets maintenance contract;
• Supporting existing operations with technical assistance, guidance and governance;
• Support greenfields and brownfields projects with technical assurance and governance;
• Raise the awareness of the importance of dust assets throughout the business;
• Maintain awareness of changing dust asset technologies and their application.

About You

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team;
• Tertiary qualification of Bachelor of Engineering or equivalent;
• A Current "C Class " WA Driver’s license;
• An ability to convert technical knowledge into practical instruction;
• Demonstrable experience in whole-of-life asset management;
• Strong interpersonal skills, including good oral and written skills;
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, able to build relationships with partners in a complex, matrix organisation;
• Strong ability to positively influence people in an organisation;
• Experience in dust assets and/or ventilation systems is desirable but not essential.

Previous experience working in a mining operation is not essential – we appreciate asset management experience gained through other industries.

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• 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 and salary packaging options
• Career development and 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)

Where you’ll be working

Our integrated iron ore network is supported by our Operations Centre (OC) in Perth, a state-of-the-art facility that enables all the autonomous trucks, trains and drills at our mines, ports and rail systems to be operated from a single location. The Centre incorporates visualisation and collaboration tools to provide real-time information across our demand chain and allows us to optimise our mining, maintenance and logistic activities across the Pilbara in a way never before possible.

Located near the Perth domestic airport, the OC operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to coordinate our integrated network of mines, rail, and ports from 1,500km away.

Applications close on 27th February 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

This role is for applicants residing in or willing to permanently relocate to Western Australia.

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.