Specialist HME Fleet Specifications

Specialist – HME Fleet Specifications

• Work for a global mining company
• Access to industry-leading technical development programmes
• Contribute to the improvement in project outcomes through technical assurance and HME specification standards excellence
• Dynamic, challenging and rewarding opportunity to be part of the HME Fleet Specification team.
• Perth based Operation Centre– Monday to Friday with flexible working arrangements

About the role

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

We are looking for a Specialist – HME Fleet Specifications to join the AMES HME Engineering team

This role offers an opportunity to be part of the governance and direction for Rio Tinto Iron Ore HME fleet specification. The wide influence of the role requires stakeholder engagement from all areas of AMES to ensure the documents are up to date, practical, value adding, and OEM technical updates are captured and documented. It also provides a great opportunity to engage with different project groups while supporting the HME Engineering team.

Reporting to the Superintendent Fleet Specifications and working in a collaborative team environment, you will:

• Development and maintenance of the specification standardisation review and development process, involving Superintendents and Managers across all RTIO sites.
• Inspecting and assessing all new, second hand and hire fleet to ensure they meet local Acts & Regulations, International, AU standards and RTIO standards.
• Advising and ensuring OEM and third-party suppliers mitigate identified risks to be compliant to local Acts/Regulations, International, AU standards and RTIO standards.
• Advising the AMES HME Planning and Sustaining Capital team of RTIO HME Specifications requirements for an annual RTIO capital spend
• Maintaining statutory risk register and historical fleet data.
• Subject matter expert support to Procurement offshore sourcing reciprocal trade, high value Greenfield's projects.
• Monitoring HME OEM product updates and advising Superintendent Principle on criticality.
• Collaborating with Business Units, Sites, Global teams and OEM’s to share learnings / support replication opportunities across the business.

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Comprehensive exposure to SAP for data evaluation and trending
• Experience and knowledge of Microsoft suite with strong capability in PowerPoint, Word and Excel
• Be highly organised and with ability to effectively plan and prioritise work independently
• Strong interpersonal skills, including good oral and written skills
• Strong ability to positively influence people in an organisation
• A Current “C Class” WA Driver’s license

• Technical knowledge and experience in working with or on heavy mobile equipment is desirable
• 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
• Flexible working arrangements
• 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)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

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. 

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

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

Applications close on 28 October 2022 (Rio Tintoreserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)