Specialist Maintenance Improvement

Specialist Maintenance Improvement

• Play a pivotal role in optimizing improvements to drive business performance
• Challenging role that will broaden your horizons and connect you with several areas within our business
• Do you have a passion for technical coaching in the field?
• Opportunity to influence and support the decision making of leaders
• 5 days on, 2 days off / 4 days on 3 days off roster FIFO

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

About the Role

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

This is a terrific opportunity for an enthusiastic individual with second-to-none communication and leadership skills to influence and motivate others to embrace improvement in maintenance process and delivery.

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

• Work closely with our teams and partners on strategic improvement, with excellent communication skills and the ability to positive influence
• Coach maintenance leaders and team members to improve their maintenance and asset management acumen.
• Assisting to create a site culture of sustainable and continuous improvement.
• 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, shut management and reliability processes and systems
• Lead site improvement projects to optimise maintenance and asset management to deliver plant reliability and availability
• 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 5+ years’ experience in an operations, maintenance, engineering, or reliability role within any maintenance industry.
• The ability to influence and coach colleagues across various disciplines and projects.
• Active communications skills to be a key driver in continuous improvement.
• The ability to quickly form trusting relationships and demonstrate genuine passion for change processes.
• Demonstrated leadership experience.
• Proven ability to influence and achieve change to improve business performance.
• The ability to be flexible, adaptable, and resilient.

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 80km southwest of Tom Price, Paraburdoo is a town nestled in some of the most scenic landscape in Western Australia. Paraburdoo is recognised for its beautiful scenery, wildlife diversity and close proximity to Karijini National Park. Paraburdoo 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 domestic airport, hospital, community centre, childcare centre, primary school, parks and a variety of sporting facilities. The recently built Paraburdoo Sports, Fitness and Community Complex offers state of the art facilities including an Olympic-size swimming pool, indoor basketball court and gym.

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 17^th of May 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)