Specialist HME - Dozers, Graders & Ancillary Fleet

Specialist HME – Dozers, Graders & Ancillary Fleet

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Collaborate with some of the best people working with cutting edge technologies
• Access to industry-leading technical development programmes
• Perth based role 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 HME – Dozer, Grader & Ancillary Assets to join the Rio Tinto Iron Ore Maintenance Planning & Engineering team and drive maintenance and engineering initiatives across the Heavy Mobile fleet.

This is a great opportunity to be a subject matter expert to our key stakeholders and provide guidance and technical expertise across a wide range of areas, including maintenance strategy and tactic development, asset optimisation, defect elimination, failure analysis, engineering support for operational business initiatives and custodianship of relevant business standards.

Reporting to the Principal HME Engineering and working in a collaborative community, you will:

• Take the lead on the development of engineering requirements, maintenance tactics and strategies for Dozers, Graders & Ancillary Fleet and components
• Maintain central custodianship of all in-field Dozers, Graders & Ancillary assets, to ensure that lifecycle strategies are effective in achieving desired outcomes
• Build and maintain constructive and mutually-beneficial technical relationships with our key OEM partners
• Provide coaching and technical support to site-based teams to achieve best-practice maintenance and repair outcomes for Dozers, Graders & Ancillary Fleet components and assets
• Utilise defect elimination and continuous improvement processes to identify and address chronic defects or design limitations impacting component performance (i.e.: productivity and/or uptime)
• Develop and maintain effective networks through collaborative relationships with key stakeholders at RTIO operations, supporting departments, and equipment suppliers
• Lead and facilitate risk assessments in your field of expertise
• Gain exposure to, and lead, technical work across other asset streams, subject to criticality and priority

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team, as well as a passion for achieving excellence in your area of accountability
• Engineering degree, Diploma or significant industry experience in a relevant field (i.e. Mechanical Engineering, Plant/Diesel mechanic trade, etc)
• Proven experience with SAP CMMS and relevant project management solutions
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Experience in heavy mobile mining equipment
• Familiarity with Dozers, Graders & Ancillary Fleet maintenance strategy and tactic development, asset optimisation, defect elimination, failure analysis and engineering support

What we offer

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

• 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

Where you will be working

This Monday to Friday Perth based role offers a hybrid of flexible working arrangements and will work out of Rio Tinto’s Central Park building CBD offices and our Operations Centre facilities at the Perth Airport. 

About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive. We have been mining for almost 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win and meet opportunities.

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, people of diverse genders and identities, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

Applications close on 10 March 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)