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

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

About the role

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 Maintenance planning and engineering.

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 Maintenance Planning and Engineering, 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
• Understand current state of AM process at their site against RT AM standards. Use a range of diagnostic tools, interpret site metrics and seek feedback from site personnel
• Use current state assessments (CSAs), support development and implementation of a site improvement plan to address key gaps in quality of site AM processes 
• Provide on the job coaching to site and MP&E personnel to develop greater understanding and capability in AM processes and asset risk to ensure best practice is implemented consistently and sustained across all sites 
• Actively pursue, and act as a point of liaison, to improve quality of the site’s master data (BOM, FLOC, task lists and so on), and quality and productivity of the site’s AM system use per list of AM process elements 
• Engage with AM process and systems leads to provide AM governance at site level 
• 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
• The ability to be flexible, adaptable, and resilient
• Ability to articulate, influence, drive and have effective discussions on the current work management programs with the Supervisor and Superintendent 
• Ability to identify, articulate and work through improvement initiatives on site performance and gaps including improvement plans 
• Provide regular and effective feedback to the sites where performance is substandard whilst maintaining a functional and effective relationship 
• Have conversations regarding non-conformance or relationship issues focusing on being solutions focused to drive business outcomes 
• 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

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.

Where you’ll be working

Located 50km north-west of Newman, Hope Downs 4 is a joint venture managed and operated by Rio Tinto, working in conjunction with nearby site Hope Downs 1. Hope Downs 4 provides excellent career growth and opportunities and the village provides excellent facilities for its FIFO workers.

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 14 April 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)