Dewatering Operator

• Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development
• Be part of our friendly, diverse and safety focussed teams
• 8/6 FIFO roster offering great work life balance - Yandicoogina

About the role

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

We are looking for Experienced Dewatering Operator to assist in the maintenance and development of the dewatering infrastructure to achieve advanced dewatering across Yandicoogina.

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.

About the role

Working an 8 days on, 6 off roster and reporting to the Dewatering Supervisor, you will be:

• Operating all dewatering equipment safely and competently
• Daily operational checks and data collection and entry ( Sap experience preferred)
• Installing, monitoring and maintaining dewatering equipment
• Constructing poly pipelines
• Identifying opportunities for improvement in the equipment or work procedures
• Fostering a culture of zero harm and continuous improvement

What you'll bring

• HR Western Australian driver's license preferred.
• Current Australian C class license.
• 2 years + Dewatering experience
• Experience in repair and maintenance of bore dewatering lines, valves and equipment.
• Ability to problem solve and adapt to a changing work fronts to meet the mine plan.
• Poly welding experience and ticket
• Experience operating dewatering infrastructure and hand tools
• Basic mechanical skills and good initiative.
• Ability to work as part of a small proactive team
• Desire to deliver work to a high standard
• Dogging (DG) and Crane Ticket (CV)
• Submersible and sump pump experience (Installation and removal)
• IT Loader, 30t Excavator and forklift ticket preferred
• Ability to work safely and cooperatively in a team, demonstrating flexibility to business requirements

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)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

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.

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

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.

Applications for this role will close on 22/10/2021, however we do reserve the right to close the role earlier.