Specialist HME - XCMG Assets

Specialist HME – XCMG Assets

·         Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion 

·         Collaborate with some of the best people working with cutting edge technologies

·         Operations Centre and Perth CBD Central Park office - 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 - XCMG Assets to join the Rio Tinto Iron Ore Maintenance Planning and Engineering team to 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.

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.

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

·         Take the lead on the development of engineering requirements, maintenance tactics and strategies for XCMG Fleet and components

·         Maintain central custodianship of all in-field XCMG assets, to ensure that lifecycle strategies are effective in achieving desired outcomes

·         Build and maintain constructive and mutually-beneficial technical relationships with our key XCMG and emerging-markets partners

·         Ensure that on-site trials have robust technical support and escalation mechanisms to build trust or seek improvements to relevant assets

·         Provide coaching and technical support to site-based teams to achieve best-practice maintenance and repair outcomes for XCMG 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:

·         Exposure to heavy mobile mining equipment maintenance

·         Familiarity with emerging markets partnerships and remote technical support functions.

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 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 & 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)

·         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. 

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA2 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 17 February 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).