Engineer Mechanical Fixed Plant West Angelas FIFO 8/6

• Opportunity to drive safety, productivity and cost improvements
• Utilise your expertise in fixed plant maintenance and reliability to provide day to day technical support for maintenance delivery
• Exciting time to join with commissioning of a new plant in process!

About the role

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

We are looking for a Mechanical Engineer to join our West Angelas fixed plant maintenance team. In this key role, you will provide technical mechanical expertise in order to deliver improvements in safety, reliability, maintainability and operability of the West Angelas fixed plant assets.

This role is a great opportunity for an experienced engineering professional to take area ownership in identifying, prioritising and executing sustaining and/or improvement projects for the operations.

Reporting to the Senior Engineer, you will:

• Provide daily technical engineering support to operations including defect elimination projects, root cause analysis (RCA) and data analysis / interpretation
• Develop and implement strategies and projects that optimise resources available for fixed plant assets and optimise overall performance of fixed plant assets
• Develop, facilitate and maintain the integration of repeatable, sustainable and auditable maintenance processes for fixed plant assets in accordance with standards
• Promote a culture of safety by developing and implementing strategies and projects that improve and update designs in accordance with standards
• Lead safety and failure investigations and risk assessments

About you

With tertiary qualifications in Mechanical Engineering, you will have demonstrated maintenance/ engineering experience within a fixed plant processing environment. You will have a strong focus towards safety and safe work practices and have a knowledge of reliability-based maintenance philosophies (RCM, FMEA, RCA).

You will be able to collaborate with a diverse range of internal partners at all levels and will have a passion for delivering continuous improvement projects or initiatives. A working knowledge of SAP (or equivalent) computer maintenance management systems will be beneficial, and a manual 'C' class driver's licence will be required.

Where you will be working

Located 110km west of Newman, West Angelas operates on a fly in fly out roster from Perth, Broome and Busselton.

West Angelas is a pioneer in autonomous technologies we were the first site to trial autonomous haul trucks and incorporate autonomous drilling into our operations in 2008, and we continue to have one of the largest mining fleets in the Pilbara. Our high grade, low phosphorous Marra Mamba orebody is an integral part of the Pilbara Blend, contributing both lump and fines products on around four trains each day. At the West Angelas hub there are state-of-the-art power generation and refueling facilities. These facilities supply power and diesel fuel to the East Pilbara mine sites.

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 supportive and inclusive community environment
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• A competitive salary package reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
• Attractive employee share scheme, extensive salary sacrifice and salary packaging options, and exclusive employee discount schemes
• Leave for all of life's reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

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

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.

This role is for applicants residing in or willing to permanently relocate to Western Australia. Rio Tinto offers Fly in and fly out options from Perth, our regional FIFO hubs and the opportunity to live in our residential towns where applicable.

Applications close on 27th May 2021 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).