Specialist – Reliability Engineer

Specialist – Reliability Engineer

• A great opportunity to join a global mining organisation offering outstanding personal development & career opportunities
• We offer generous compensation, paid parental leave entitlements and flexible work arrangements
• A permanent position based in the coastal town of Gladstone

About the role

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

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Specialist - Reliability Engineer, to be an integral member of our Reliability Engineering team at the Yarwun refinery in Gladstone. 

This is a great opportunity for a motivated, safety conscious professional to join the Reliability Engineering team in an important role focusing on predictive and preventative maintenance. Providing guidance on the best practices in reliability engineering to maximise performance and meet, safety, operational and production targets 

Reporting to the Superintendent – Asset Integrity, you will:

• Be responsible for the management of the Defect Elimination process for defined areas of the Yarwun Refinery.
• Focus on the generation and/or continual improvement of maintenance strategies and tactics.
• Investigate equipment failures and facilitate effective Root Cause Analysis – RCA, including the management of corrective actions.
• Provide guidance, standardisation and technical assistance to key stakeholders on site regarding plant and equipment reliability.
• Conduct and understand Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FME(C)A
• Conduct effective Reliability Availability Maintainability (RAM) Analysis utilising methodologies such as FME(C)A, RCM, ZBB, RBI, LCCM 
• Develop and implement innovative solutions to address ongoing reliability issues

What you’ll bring

To be considered for this role, you will have:

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Demonstrated experience in an asset management/reliability role.
• Experience in performing reliability modelling and working with GE APM Software or similar.
• Effective communication skills to liaise with a variety of stakeholders at all levels of the business.
• A tertiary qualification in engineering

What we offer

• Domestic relocation available
• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP)
• Access to top tier family-friendly health and medical programs
• Excellent retirement plan
• Paid Parental Leave Up to 9 Months (No distinction between primary or secondary carer)
• A comprehensive leave policy that covers all moments that matter in life (vacation/annual, paid parental leave, short term sick leave, paid holidays)
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program

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. 

Rio Tinto Aluminium – Yarwun Operations

With production beginning in 2004 at our Yarwun alumina refinery, located approximately 10 kilometres north-west of Gladstone in Central Queensland, today the operation produces more than three million tonnes of alumina per year.

Around 700 people support the operation, with an additional 350 contractors on site each year as part of scheduled maintenance shutdown activities. Thanks to its ‘Industry 4.0’ focus, Yarwun is also a leader in trialling new technologies to improve operations on site, including 3D printing, robotics and drones in confined spaces, and is home to Rio Tinto’s innovative Queensland Research and Development Centre (QRDC).

Along with Boyne Smelters Limited and Queensland Alumina Limited, our Yarwun Operation supports the local community in a wide range of initiatives through Here for Gladstone.

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.

Closing date 17th January 2023

“Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove job postings prior to the stated closing date, therefore, if you are interested in applying for this vacancy please submit your application as soon as possible.”