Heavy Duty Diesel Fitters

FIFO Opportunities – Heavy Duty Diesel Fitter

• Our even time family-friendly roster provides a balance between career and home life ensuring you spend more time with your loved ones and doing the things outside of work, that matter most to you. 

• Permanent employment which includes attractive salary, annual bonuses and a huge range of additional benefits which are designed to make life better for you and your loved ones including subsidised private health insurance and paid parental leave for all parents.

• We’ll support your growth and career development, whether your ambitions are technical or leadership.

• Flexibility for the lifestyle you want – Fly in; fly out opportunities from Perth, Busselton, Geraldton, Albany or Broome.

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for enthusiastic and high performing Heavy Duty Diesel Fitters to join our Rio Tinto Iron Ore Pilbara Operations. You’ll perform planned, preventative and breakdown maintenance across our extensive fleet of heavy mobile equipment and if you have a preference for which site you would like to be based at, let us know.

You’ll be part of a friendly team, supported by your leader to grow and achieve your own personal goals as well as the goals of the team. You’ll fly in and fly out direct from Perth, Busselton, Albany, Geraldton or Broome and working an 8 days on 6 days off, 7 nights on 7 off roster will give you more time to spend on the things that are important to you outside of work. This role is for applicants residing in or willing to permanently relocate to Western Australia. If you don’t currently reside in Western Australia, we’ll provide full relocation from elsewhere in Australia so you can enjoy the incredible lifestyle.

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 Mobile Maintenance Supervisor and working in a challenging and exciting environment within the Pilbara Mining Operations Mobile Maintenance Team, you will be required to:

• Maintain a high level of safety awareness and comply with all RTIO Company Policies and procedures

• Conduct routine inspections of the mobile maintenance fleet and determine repair action when required

• Actively contribute to continuous improvement projects – increasing safety whilst reducing risk & cost

• Utilise SAP to ensure that maintenance tasks are recorded, assigned correctly and completed to the relevant standard / specification

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• Respect for others and an all-inclusive mindset

• A Heavy-Duty Fitter or Plant Mechanic Trade Certificate

• Working rights in Australia

• Experience in maintaining open cut mobile mining equipment or experience maintaining large mobile equipment with the ability and motivation to learn about mobile mining equipment

• Excellent diagnostic and fault-finding ability

• An Australian manual drivers’ license

If you are excited about the role and think you have what it takes but your experience doesn’t align 100% we still want to hear from you. 

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

• Fly direct to site from Perth, Albany, Busselton, Broome or Geraldton on lifestyle friendly 8 days on 6 days off, 7 nights on 7 off roster

• Full relocation provided to Western Australia from elsewhere in Australia

• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive bonus

• 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

• 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, cultural leave)

• To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them

• Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more, read more about the huge range of benefits here.

Who we are 

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.

We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win and meet opportunities. 

Where you’ll be working 

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, Rio Tinto operates the world’s largest integrated portfolio of iron ore assets with industry-leading margins. Our premium product suite, including our flagship Pilbara blend, drives strong customer relationships and is supported by technical and commercial marketing expertise. The iron ore business continues to be the world’s largest autonomous truck operator and a proud leader in automated mining technologies. 

Where we’re all welcome 

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 who we are. 

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 acknowledge that all people are different and believe that our differences are our strength. The diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together.

Applications for this role will close on 15/01/2024, however we do reserve the right to close the role earlier than stated. 

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions. You may also be required to complete on-line assessments as part of the selection process.