Technician Condition Monitoring

Technician Condition Monitoring

• Excellent opportunity to progress in your career development
• Be part of a high performing maintenance team
• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Attractive 8 & 6 roster - FIFO Yandicoogina 

About the role

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

We are looking for a Condition Monitoring Technician to enable condition-based strategies to fixed-plant equipment maintenance in order to improve equipment reliability and improve overall equipment effectiveness.

This role is a great opportunity to be part of a high performing team environment and develop your career further.

Reporting to the Senior Maintenance Engineer and working in a collaborative and high performing team, you will:

• Be accountable for the health of fixed plant equipment using oil analysis, thermal surveys, and vibration.
• Carry out scheduled machinery vibration data collection and performing analysis to evaluate equipment running condition and recommend corrective measures.
• Complete any non-routine inspection requests as required.
• Provide Condition Monitoring Services for Acceptance Criteria of newly installed equipment.
• Liaise with reliability engineers, maintenance, and production teams to link condition monitoring findings and other maintenance strategies.
• Inspect dismantled parts and correlate analysis results to as-found equipment conditions.
• Utilise other techniques like phase analysis, impact tests and ODS to resolve complicated vibration issues.
• Carry out sensor insultation.
• Setting up of internal databases and reporting activities. 

What you'll bring

• Extensive experience in a Fixed Plant Condition Monitoring role
• Mechanical Trade qualification and/or reliability engineering background
• Level 2 certification in Vibration Analysis is essential
• A working knowledge of computerised maintenance management systems inclusive of SAP, MHM & RBM
• A readiness for proactive and flexible approach to fluctuating workloads
• An Australian "C" Class manual drivers’ licence

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 globalmining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce ironore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals and other materials needed for theglobal energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive. Wehave been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built upacross generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways toprovide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuousimprovement to produce materials with low emissions and to the rightenvironmental, 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 andmeet opportunities.

Where you’ll be working

Located 95km north-west of Newman, Yandicoogina offers a range of fly in fly out rosters. As one of Australia's largest-producing iron ore mines; operating a fleet of autonomous trucks and drills, it generates more than 55 million tonnes of Hammersley Iron Yandi (HIY) fines each year.

Yandicoogina is known for its culture of teamwork, can-do attitude and pioneering spirit, leading the way with innovation and technological advances in autonomous operations and robotics.

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 19th of April 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)