Senior Engineer Fixed & Mobile Equipment Gudai-Darri - FIFO
- Employer
- Rio Tinto
- Location
- Gudai-Darri, WA, AU
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- Apr 21, 2021
- Closes
- May 09, 2021
- Ref
- 658866505
- Category
- Engineering, Maintenance/Mechanical
- Work Term
- Permanent
- Work Load
- Full Time
- Language
- English
Senior Engineer Fixed & Mobile Equipment Gudai-Darri - FIFO
About the role
All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Senior Engineer to join our Asset Management & Engineering Services (AMES) team at Gudai-Darri (Koodaideri).
Gudai-Darri (Koodaideri) is a new mine, shaping new ways of working. You will get the opportunity to work on a brand-new plant as well as fleet embedded with the latest technology comprising of Autonomous Haul Trucks, Drills and Water Carts along with other manned heavy mobile and ancillary equipment.
The Senior Engineer will lead a team of reliability and controls engineers and will be responsible for whole of life engineering and asset management and will champion the defect elimination and reliability engineering processes in order to improve the mobile and fixed plant asset performance.
Reporting to the Superintendent Asset Management and Engineering Services, you will:
What you'll bring
Where you will be working
This position is based at our Gudai-Darri (Koodaideri) operation on a FIFO 5/2; 4/3 roster from Perth.
Located 160km North-West of Newman, our Gudai-Darri (Koodaideri) Operations will have a dedicated airport, state-of-the-art camp facilities and family friendly rosters making it an exciting and pleasant place to work at.
What we offer
Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you've helped the world progress.
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 Friday 7th May (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).
- Opportunity to further develop your leadership capability whilst driving safety, productivity and cost improvements
- Work at a new mine site with brand new HME Fleet and Fixed Plant opportunity to influence the whole of life of assets
- Exciting time to join a growing and passionate internal community of reliability experts focused on delivering excellence in reliability
- Use your analytical skills to successfully lead and implement continuous improvement initiatives
- Be recognised for your talent as part of a dynamic and progressive team
About the role
All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Senior Engineer to join our Asset Management & Engineering Services (AMES) team at Gudai-Darri (Koodaideri).
Gudai-Darri (Koodaideri) is a new mine, shaping new ways of working. You will get the opportunity to work on a brand-new plant as well as fleet embedded with the latest technology comprising of Autonomous Haul Trucks, Drills and Water Carts along with other manned heavy mobile and ancillary equipment.
The Senior Engineer will lead a team of reliability and controls engineers and will be responsible for whole of life engineering and asset management and will champion the defect elimination and reliability engineering processes in order to improve the mobile and fixed plant asset performance.
Reporting to the Superintendent Asset Management and Engineering Services, you will:
- Lead a team of multi-disciplined Engineers to deliver site goals
- Provide expert technical advice to heavy mobile equipment (HME) and fixed plant (FP) teams
- Lead and support investigations into asset failures and performance, including root cause analysis (RCA)
- Analyse equipment performance data to identify high value defect elimination opportunities and implement improvements in reliability, productivity and cost
- Recommend and implement tactics designed to support high levels of asset safety, reliability and integrity
- Monitor and analyse the performance of our assets and analyse primary/secondary maintenance tasks to improve asset reliability and cost
- Actively contribute to asset strategy by developing asset lifecycle plans and zero-based budgets for mobile equipment
- Engage and collaborate with operational and other key stakeholders
What you'll bring
- Tertiary qualifications in engineering or related discipline and previous maintenance or reliability experience ideally within a mining environment
- The ability to work collaboratively across a diverse range of stakeholders and operational teams
- Experience leading engineering or project teams will be beneficial
- The desire to be working in a hands-on, fast paced environment
- Practical experience and an understanding of reliability concepts FMECA, RCM, etc
- A demonstrated commitment to safety
- Working knowledge of statutory, Australian and Rio Tinto engineering standards
- Experience with SAP and prior HME experience will be advantageous
- A current and valid manual 'C Class' driver's license
Where you will be working
This position is based at our Gudai-Darri (Koodaideri) operation on a FIFO 5/2; 4/3 roster from Perth.
Located 160km North-West of Newman, our Gudai-Darri (Koodaideri) Operations will have a dedicated airport, state-of-the-art camp facilities and family friendly rosters making it an exciting and pleasant place to work at.
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 competitive 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 and 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)
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 Friday 7th May (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).