Water Instrumentation Technician

Water Instrumentation Technician – Tailings and Water

• Advance your career in a dynamic, fast paced team environment
• Permanent full-time role
• Residential role – live in Weipa

About the role

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

Rio Tinto is currently seeking to employ a Water Instrumentation Technician that provides support to the Tailings and Water team who oversee management of a complex portfolio of water resources. The role primarily supports the tailings and water department to discharge their regulatory responsibility surrounding the numerous water storage facilities, artesian bore field, shallow aquifer, and investigations into future water resources.

In addition to paying competitively and providing great benefits packages, we want you to live the lifestyle that is right for you and your family. And because of our size and scale, there are many opportunities to learn, grow and do more than you ever thought possible. Every hour of every shift, your safety and wellbeing is our number one priority. We do the work only if it is safe, and we invest to make sure every member of the team has the quality tools they need to do their job.

Reporting to the Tailings and Water Specialist, you will be:

• Evaluating, troubleshooting, test and repair of water monitoring equipment and instrumentation including data loggers, sensors, and telemetry devices.
• Planning and scheduling of remote field work and data collection campaigns.
• Undertake remote fieldwork as needed.
• Data collection for Artesian groundwater modelling
• Stream sampling and monitoring to support environmental impact studies
• Manage a small inventory of field equipment and water monitoring instrumentation.
• Data entry and QAQC of databases.
• Support site to maintain regulatory compliance and Rio Tinto standards.
• Improve data management by improving existing tools and participating in the implementation of the data management system.
• Manage specialised external consultants.
• Development of safe work procedures related to hydrographic studies
• Maintain relationships with traditional owners and landowners

What you’ll bring

• Trade qualified fitter/plumber/electrician or experience in a similar role
• Experience with troubleshooting, testing, and repairing data logging equipment.
• C Class Drivers Licence
• Experience in contractor management.
• Demonstrated ability to project manage small teams of contractors and consultants
• Exposure and previous experience with instrumentation related to water/environmental data collection
• MS Office skills, specifically in Excel and Word
• Previous experience in Geoexplorer and Envirosys will be highly regarded.
• Light Machinery operation
• Able to work autonomously and collectively
• 4WD driving training

What we offer

• Weipa accommodation benefit
• Remote area allowance
• Remote area holiday travel assistance
• Domestic relocation assistance 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 (annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)

Where you will be working

Our Weipa Operations includes three bauxite mines, processing facilities, ship loaders, an export wharf, two ports, power stations, a rail network and ferry terminals. Located on the Western Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, each year the operation produces more than 35 million tonnes of bauxite.

Our operations are supported by a 1,900-strong workforce—including 26 per cent who are women and 25 per cent Indigenous employees. Activities include mine operations, maintenance, asset management, ports, cultural heritage management, and processing facility management.

The development of our new mine, Amrun, which was completed in 2018, will extend the life of our Weipa bauxite operations by decades to come and significantly build on our 55-year history on the Western Cape.

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.

Every Voice Matters

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.

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.