Specialist Maintenance Improvement

Specialist Maintenance Improvement

• Play a pivotal role in optimizing our improvements to drive business performance
• Challenging role that will broaden your horizons and connect you with several areas within our business
• Opportunity to influence and support the decision making of senior leaders
• 5 days on, 2 days off / 4 days on 3 days off roster; FIFO from Perth or Residential in Pannawonica

About the role

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

We are looking for an experienced improvement professional who have a keen interest in maintenance to join our team in the Specialist Maintenance Improvement role in Asset Management & Engineering Services

This is a great opportunity for an enthusiastic individual with effective communication and leadership skills to influence and motivate others to embrace improvement in maintenance process and delivery.

Reporting to the Superintendent Asset Management & Engineering Service, and working in a challenging and exciting environment, you will:

• Work closely with our partners on medium to long term strategic improvement initiatives with a preference for face-to-face engagement rather than email
• Have a keen eye for detail and ability to take data and generate key insights and articulate pathways forward
• Establish strong understanding of asset management processes in particular work management and reliability processes and systems
• Lead site improvement projects to optimise maintenance and asset management in order to deliver plant reliability and availability
• Coach maintenance leaders and team members to improve their maintenance and asset management acumen
• Promote and drive standardised reports and best practice tools with your peer group

 What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Demonstrated experience in an operations, maintenance, engineering, or reliability role within any heavy industry
• Proven ability to influence and achieve change to improve business performance.
• The ability to be flexible, adaptable, and resilient
• Tertiary qualification or trade background with 7-10 years’ experience
• Demonstrated project management skills and experience

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• 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)
• 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

Robe Valley operation is located in close proximity to Pannawonica Township, Pannawonica is a town nestled in some of the most scenic landscape in Western Australia and in close proximity to Karratha, Exmouth and Onslow. Robe Valley prides itself on being a safe and friendly community; ideal for young families.

The picturesque town provides residents with a range of leisure facilities and local amenities including a community centre, childcare centre, primary school, parks, swimming pool and a variety of sporting facilities.

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 5 September 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)