Specialist Engineer East

Specialist Electrical / Instrumentation

• Work for a global mining company with generous employee rewards and benefits
• Be involved with greenfield and brownfield projects
• 5 days on, 2 off roster - Operations Centre, Perth

About the role

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

We are looking for a Specialist Electrical / Instrumentation to join the Fixed Plant & Engineering team at our Perth Operations Centre to provide technical expertise to the wider business at Rio Tinto Iron Ore.

This role is a great opportunity to shape and influence the way the business moves with the trialing of new technology, markets and equipment. Working 5 days on, 2 off roster and reporting to the Principal Engineer Electrical, you will: 

• Work closely with Pilbara based Asset Management and maintenance teams to drive improvement work, provide technical support and identify replication opportunities
• Work closely with major and sustaining capital projects, providing technical assurance and governance.
• Own and maintain standards and whole of life strategies for electrical / instrumentation equipment, including substations, switchgear, transformers, cables, motors, PLC hardware, volumetric scanners, level sensors and other instrumentation used in the Iron Ore industry
• Coordinate and monitor support from key vendors
• Undertake root cause analysis on significant failures.

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have: 

• Electrical / Instrumentation Engineering Degree
• Minimum 6 years’ experience in mining / oil / gas industry
• Experience across the asset life cycle, including design, specification, installation, commissioning, obsolescence management, preventative & breakdown maintenance
• Current knowledge of industry standards and best practices
• Excellent networking and communication skills
• Proven FMEA, RCA and problem-solving techniques
• Manual C Class Drivers License

Highly Desirable

• Working knowledge of SAP
• Certificate III in Instrumentation and Control
• Certificate IV in Electrical Instrumentation
• Experience with maintenance or asset management of instrumentation in a mining environment
• Functional Safety Certification

Where you’ll be working

Perth-based at either the Operations Centre (OC) or Central Park offices, with ad hoc site travel

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 supportive and inclusive community environment
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• A competitive salary package reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
• Attractive employee share scheme, extensive salary sacrifice and salary packaging options, and exclusive employee discount schemes
• 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 aluminum – 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 20 September (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).