Engineer Maintenance Fixed Plant - Pilbara, Australia - RioTinto

Description

Engineer Maintenance Fixed Plant – Electrical Paraburdoo

We encourage women and Indigenous Peoples to apply, as we advance our business to more accurately reflect the world around us.

• Deliver real business impact in an influential site-based reliability role
• Join a growing and passionate internal community of professionals focussed on delivering excellence in reliability
• Challenge, identify and develop strategies to improve asset reliability
• Be recognised for your talent as part of a diverse, dynamic and progressive team

Where we're all welcome

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.

About the role

We are looking for an Electrical Maintenance Engineer to be a part of our Paraburdoo Fixed Plant Maintenance team.

This role is a great opportunity to work with a diversified fleet of equipment and gain exposure to a wide variety of equipment manufacturers. You can also expect exposure to leadership step-up opportunities whilst working with subject matter experts, conditioning monitoring technicians and equipment inspectors.

Working a family-friendly 8 days on, 6 days off roster and reporting to the Senior Maintenance Engineer, you will be:

• Providing technical engineering support and expert advice to the maintenance team.
• Monitoring and managing Asset health
• Analysing major component failures and incidents
• Leading defect elimination projects and root cause analysis

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• Strong safety behaviours
• An experienced electrical engineer in fixed plant operations with a high degree of familiarity with fixed plant high voltage equipment including motors, variable speed drives, switchgear, power control, PLCs, SCADA and electrical instrumentation.
• Demonstrated understanding of process control systems and automation
• Experience in delivering continuous improvement initiatives / projects.
• Experience in defect elimination processes and root cause analysis
• Experience in SAP and Power Bi will be beneficial
• A relevant tertiary qualification in electrical engineering
• Knowledge of relevant Australian Standards, Regulations, Acts and Codes of Practice
• A current C Class Driver's Licence

Where you will be working

Located 80km south west of Tom Price, Paraburdoo is a town nestled in some of the most scenic landscape in Western Australia. Situated on the doorstep of the renowned Karijini National Park, Paraburdoo is recognised for its beautiful scenery, wildlife diversity and close-knit community which offers a safe and friendly environment; ideal for young families. The picturesque town provides residents with a range of leisure facilities and local amenities including a jet-serviced airport, hospital, child care centre, primary school, and a variety of sporting facilities such as an Olympic-size swimming pool, cricket and football fields, and basketball and tennis courts.

What we offer

• Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you've helped the world progress.
• 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)
• To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them.
• Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more,
• Full relocation provided to Western Australia from elsewhere in Australia.

We are committed to elevating Indigenous voices and increasing cultural knowledge in our business. Diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together. To help you on your journey with us, you'll also have access to:

• Specialist Indigenous Support Advisors are always there for our Indigenous employees and available to support through any aspect of your employment.
• Dedicated Indigenous Talent Programme for our Operators and Tradespersons and entry level operational roles. This programme is designed to create long term sustainable careers for our Indigenous Employees to grow into leadership or technical pathways to ensure you have every opportunity to grow your career.
• Indigenous leadership programmes across some professional and operational roles to ensure that we are developing Indigenous Leaders. 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.

Who we are

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 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.

Applications for this role will close on 29/05/2024, however we do reserve the right to close the role earlier than stated.

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.

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