Plant Operator
- Permanent full-time role
- Lifestyle roster 4,5,5
- Live in Weipa commuting to Amrun and stay in our new camp
About the role
All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.
We are looking for a Plant Operator to operate, inspect and maintain a variety of fixed plant equipment including crushers, screens, conveyors, stackers, reclaimers and shiploaders, working at our Amrun site.
This role is a great opportunity for an enthusiastic and highly ambitious individual.
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.
Reporting to the Supervisor and working a 4,5,5 day/night shift lifestyle roster, you will be:
- Monitoring and carrying out daily plant inspections on the various work fronts of the fixed plant operations, and report any defects found during inspections;
- Working across all streams, including apron feeder, conveyors, pumps, screens, classification tanks, stacker, reclaimer and shiploading;
- Monitoring and operating fixed plant equipment via FT View Scada;
- Working with the maintenance team assisting Electrical and Mechanical personnel;
- Working mostly outdoors in hot, humid and challenging environmental conditions including occasionally working at heights and in confined spaces.
What you’ll bring
- Prior experience in operating and inspecting fixed plant equipment
- A current manual ‘C’ drivers class license
- A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
What we offer
- Weipa accommodation benefit
- Five weeks annual leave
- Remote area allowance
- Amrun allowance
- Remote area holiday travel assistance
- Paid parental leave up to 4.5 months at full pay or 9 months half pay
- Health cover scheme for employees and their immediate family
- Salary sacrifice & packaging options – rental, mortgage, super, vehicle
- Employee discounts – banking, accommodation, motoring, 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.
Where you’ll 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.
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.
