Mobile Plant Maintenance Coordinator - (Northern Operations)

• Leadership role
• Advance your career in a dynamic, fast paced team environment
• 4,5,5 lifestyle day/night roster
• Residential role - live a coastal lifestyle in beautiful Weipa

About the role

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

We are looking for a Mobile Plant Maintenance Coordinator to help lead our HME Maintenance team to ensure safety, people and production targets are met.

This role is a great opportunity for somebody wanting to progress into a leadership role, who has a strong focus on safety and driving cultural change.

Leading on the frontline is one of the most important jobs in our business and comes with a huge amount of responsibility. We need you to motivate, inspire and keep your people safe and well.

With signature leadership training programmers, growing, and developing is more than an opportunity - it is something we actively plan and make happen. Every day our leaders grow, while our rosters are designed to help you live the lifestyle that is right for you and your family

Reporting to the HME Supervisor and working a 4,5,5 day/night lifestyle roster, you will be:

• Supporting the Maintenance team with their day-to-day operations.
• Providing visible leadership and driving the safety culture.
• Participating in the measuring, analyzing and recommendation of process improvements.
• Delivering maintenance activities within the East Weipa and Andoom Operation, and its heavy equipment fleet of approximately 55 assets; including 776 and 777 Long trucks, 785 rear tippers, 992 and 993 loaders, D11 dozers and ancillary equipment.
• Leading by example, communicating effectively, and ensuring values of the business are adhered to.

What you'll bring

• HME Heavy Equipment Fitter Trade, Auto Electrical Trade or previous experience working in a HME Workshop within a mine site
• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Ability to work with and lead a diverse workforce
• Commitment to personal growth and development
• Established prioritization and time management skills
• Knowledge of the SAP system for maintenance
• A 'C' class drivers' license

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• HRWL - Dogging, Forklift, EWP license
• G1, G2, G8 & G9 Supervisor safety courses
• Contract management experience
• Previous maintenance leadership experience
• Computer literacy, including exposure to Microsoft Word, Excel
• A demonstrated understanding of the work management process, and a commitment to that process

What we offer

• Domestic relocation assistance on offer
• Weipa accommodation benefit
• Remote area allowance
• Remote area holiday travel assistance
• Paid parental leave up to 9 months (no distinction between primary or secondary carer)
• Health cover scheme for employees and their immediate family
• Salary sacrifice & packaging options - rental, mortgage, super, vehicle
• Rio Tinto employee share programme
• Employee discounts - banking, accommodation, motoring, 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

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.

'Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove job postings prior to the stated closing date, therefore, if you are interested in applying for this vacancy please submit your application as soon as possible.'