About the role

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

This role is a great opportunity in Asset Health Leadership & Improvement. Based residentially in Parabadoo, working on an 8/6 roster and reporting to the Senior Engineer HME, you will be responsible to:

• Lead a team of Condition Monitoring Technicians and Hydrocarbon Management Officers and build on the team’s capability, whilst ensuring the safe and efficient execution of existing strategies and tactics.
• Champion and manage the Mobile Equipment Asset Health program across Parabadoo Operations.
• Audit compliance of team issued reports and documentation to the required standards and at the relevant frequency.
• Audit and ensure validity and calibration of all instrumentation employed by the team to meet OEM accuracy and the relevant Australian and International Standards.
• Identify, develop and implement Asset Health strategy improvements based on maintenance requirement analysis.
• Develop and manage post-repair QA/QC strategies for structural defects.
• Maintain the site Asset Health registers and chair regular Asset Health Review meetings.
• Participate in Reliability improvement programs and equipment failure Root Cause Analysis as and when required.
• Provide support and apply knowledge of maintenance planning to optimise maintenance tasks and quality of work.

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will demonstrate the following professional qualities:

• Exemplary safety focus with confidence and a minimum of 2 years’ experience in leading teams (company and contractors) through change in a frontline maintenance or other technical environment.
• Engaging and influential leadership that uses demonstrated behaviour to motivate and drive those around them.
• Effective roster, leave and HR management in line with RTIO policies and procedures.
• Custodianship of the site Asset Health processes, procedures and stakeholder meetings.
• A strong desire and drive to achieve leading practice.
• An excellent eye for detail.
• Highly competent problem solving skills.

You will be able to demonstrate the following technical skills:

• A trade background or applicable University degree.
• ISO 9712 AINDT or PCN NDT qualification such as: MPI/MT (Level 2), DPI/PT (Level 2), UT (Level - 2 Welds)
• A Strong understanding of Lubrication & Oil Analysis principles on Heavy Mobile Equipment. Formal training is not essential but will be highly regarded.
• Ability to undertake or provide evidence of a proficiency test undertaken in all the required NDT techniques
• Familiarity with SAP and have experience manipulating data using SAP
• Basic skills in Microsoft Office suite of products.

The following qualifications and attributes will be highly regarded:

• 5+ years leadership experience in a similar role
• Proficiency and experience in establishing, reviewing and editing NDT General procedures according to relevant standards and specifications and provide guidance and coaching to NDT personnel at all levels.
• Demonstrated experience in a Mobile Equipment Maintenance environment.
• Formal qualification in Oil Analysis techniques and interpretation.

What we offer

• 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 and salary packaging options;
• Career development and 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).

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 16th December 2021 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)

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 Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA2 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.