Senior Maintenance Engineer Residential Dampier

Rio Tinto
Dampier, WA, AU
Competitive
Oct 19, 2021
Oct 26, 2021
1557239897
Permanent
Full Time
English
Senior Maintenance Engineer Residential Dampier
  • Opportunity to extend your experience and advance your professional leadership career
  • Be part of a fun and high performing team and work with a leader who is passionate about developing and supporting their team
  • Showcase your passion for achieving engineering excellence leading projects to optimise and improve our asset performance
  • Work collaboratively across a wide range of stakeholder groups to deliver improvement initiatives

About the role

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

We are looking for an inspiring and passionate Senior Engineer to join our maintenance team at Dampier Ports. In this key leadership role, you will oversee a team focused on the implementation of mechanical engineering solutions for site defects to improve plant reliability, increase plant throughput and ensure the safe operation of assets. Based at one of the largest bulk cargo port terminals in Australia, you will provide leadership, technical direction, and engineering support throughout project lifecycle and provide expert advice across maintenance and reliability engineering processes.

Your enthusiastic approach coupled with your effective communication and leadership skills will see you lead a team of highly motivated engineers. You'll have the ability to steer engineering fundamentals to improve business performance and deliver high value outcomes while providing coaching and mentoring support to your team. We're looking for you to bring diversity of thought and experience so we welcome experience from any industry. In this team you must help make work fun!

Reporting to the Superintendent Maintenance, you will:
  • Coach, guide and mentor a team of engineering professionals
  • Provide technical advice to the maintenance and operations teams and connect our central asset specialists to our site operations
  • Lead and manage important site improvement projects to optimise plant reliability, availability and maintainability
  • Provide engineering assistance for procurement of new assets / components
  • Manage change management processes relating to fixed plant and marine maintenance activities
  • Identify, generate and report on plant changes and improvement initiatives
  • Lead and support failure investigations and plant performance analysis

What you'll bring
  • Tertiary qualifications in Engineering with demonstrated experience in an operations, maintenance, engineering or reliability role
  • Experience leading a team
  • Project management skills with experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously, including project scoping, planning, execution and contractor management
  • Knowledge of relevant Australian standards, regulations, acts and codes of practice
  • A strong focus towards safety and safe work practices
  • Experience in equipment failure investigation using root cause analysis techniques
  • C Class Driver's Licence
  • MSIC card or the ability to obtain one will be advantageous

Where you will be working

This residential position is based in the coastal town of Karratha / Dampier working on a 5/2; 4/3 roster. You will enjoy a relaxed lifestyle and a range of leisure facilities and local amenities in a safe and family friendly environment. Comprehensive relocation assistance, heavily subsidised housing and other residential lifestyle allowances and benefits will be available to the successful candidate.

Our port facilities consist of four shipping terminals located on the Pilbara coast at Dampier and Cape Lambert which form an essential part of our logistics process. Each terminal has facilities for train unloading, iron ore stockpiling, product blending and ship loading.

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)
  • Full domestic relocation assistance, heavily subsidised company housing, annual holiday travel allowance and other lifestyle benefits for employees seeking a residential arrangement

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.