Specialist Maintenance Improvement

Specialist Maintenance Improvement

• Play a pivotal role in optimising our 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 senior leaders
• 8 days on / 6 days off roster

About the Role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

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 Rail Maintenance Integration.

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 Maintenance Improvement, and working in a challenging and exciting environment, you will:

• Work closely with our partners on strategic improvement excellent communication skills with 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 shut management and reliability processes and systems
• Lead site improvement projects to optimise maintenance and asset management to deliver plant reliability and availability
• Provide assistance in the Quarterly Forecast process, helping to collate, plan and handover the Rail Maintenance QF where required
• 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 a maintenance, engineering, or reliability role
• Demonstrated 5+ years’ experience in SAP
• 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’s on 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              
• 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

This role will be based at our 7 Mile operation out of Dampier, a short drive from the heart of Karratha. Karratha is a coastal town, situated in WA’s Pilbara region, which boasts a strong ‘community’ feel.

We operate 200 locomotives on more than 1,700 kilometres of track in the Pilbara, transporting ore from 16 mines to four port terminals. The average return distance of these trains is about 800 kilometres with the average journey cycle, including loading and dumping, taking approximately 40 hours.

Our network is the largest privately owned and operated heavy haul rail system in Australia, and as we focus on the future, our vision is to become the greatest heavy haul railway in the world.

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.