Process Technicians - Hydrate/Precips
- Employer
- Rio Tinto
- Location
- Gladstone, Queensland, AUS
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- May 22, 2022
- Closes
- Jun 19, 2022
- Ref
- 452961158
- Category
- Mill & Metallurgy, Technicians
- Work Term
- Permanent
- Work Load
- Full Time
- Language
- English
Experienced Process Technicians - Hydrate/Precips
About the role
All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.
We are looking for skilled Process Technicians at our Yarwun Operation within the Hydrate/Precips team.
As a process technician within the Hydrate/Precip area you will have exposure to a broad range of equipment across a number of operating assets. The Hydrate/Precips area is a two-stage operational area consisting of Disk filters/Drum filters and Precipitators with draft tube agitation.
This role is a great opportunity for skilled Process Technicians who are safety focused, able to work within a team and adapt to a constantly improving environment.
About you
To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:
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.
Where you'll be working
With production beginning in 2004 at our Yarwun alumina refinery, located approximately 10 kilometres north-west of Gladstone in Central Queensland, today the operation produces more than three million tonnes of alumina per year.
Around 700 people support the operation, with an additional 350 contractors on site each year as part of scheduled maintenance shutdown activities. Thanks to its 'Industry 4.0' focus, Yarwun is also a leader in trialling new technologies to improve operations on site, including 3D printing, robotics and drones in confined spaces, and is home to Rio Tinto's innovative Queensland Research and Development Centre (QRDC).
Along with Boyne Smelters Limited and Queensland Alumina Limited, our Yarwun Operation supports the local community in a wide range of initiatives through Here for Gladstone.
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.
- Develop your career with ongoing training and development
- Continuous day/night roster (lifestyle roster)
- Coastal friendly location - Gladstone
About the role
All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.
We are looking for skilled Process Technicians at our Yarwun Operation within the Hydrate/Precips team.
As a process technician within the Hydrate/Precip area you will have exposure to a broad range of equipment across a number of operating assets. The Hydrate/Precips area is a two-stage operational area consisting of Disk filters/Drum filters and Precipitators with draft tube agitation.
This role is a great opportunity for skilled Process Technicians who are safety focused, able to work within a team and adapt to a constantly improving environment.
- Operating and providing technical input to fixed plant process equipment
- Utilizing problem solving methodology to identify root causes and corrective actions
- Operating mobile equipment which could include forklift, elevated work platform (EWP), overhead gantry crane and bobcat.
- Conducting routine inspections, housekeeping, isolations and permitting
- Promoting a can do attitude, working independently and using your own initiative
- Promoting and identifying HSE opportunities to improve equipment, processes and behaviours.
- Training opportunities which may include options Cert 3 in process plant operations
- Knowledge and understanding of filtering systems utilised within the Bayer circuit.
About you
To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:
- Proven experience working in a heavy industrial environment trade or process.
- Ability to work on roster, at heights and confined spaces.
- Demonstrated experience as an active team member with a willingness to contribute to a safe an effective workspace.
- Experienced in isolation and permitting systems.
- Ability to work in a manually intensive environment.
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
- 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.
Where you'll be working
With production beginning in 2004 at our Yarwun alumina refinery, located approximately 10 kilometres north-west of Gladstone in Central Queensland, today the operation produces more than three million tonnes of alumina per year.
Around 700 people support the operation, with an additional 350 contractors on site each year as part of scheduled maintenance shutdown activities. Thanks to its 'Industry 4.0' focus, Yarwun is also a leader in trialling new technologies to improve operations on site, including 3D printing, robotics and drones in confined spaces, and is home to Rio Tinto's innovative Queensland Research and Development Centre (QRDC).
Along with Boyne Smelters Limited and Queensland Alumina Limited, our Yarwun Operation supports the local community in a wide range of initiatives through Here for Gladstone.
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.