AddressReliability Engineer
- Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
- Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
- Permanent opportunity based in Gladstone, QLD
About the role
Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.
We are looking for a Reliability Engineer to be an integral member of our Asset Management team at Boyne Smelters Limited (BSL) in Gladstone.
This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated professional to join a team that is undergoing a period of energetic growth and development. The successful applicant will have strong technical skills that are enhanced by an entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships. We need a highly influential change agent who can demonstrate rapid value delivery to their customers.
Reporting to the Specialist – Defect Elimination and working in a collaborative cross-functional team environment, you will:
- Champion the Defect Elimination process for defined areas of site
- Lead and coach others in structured problem solving activities
- Utilise data and reliability principles in a process centric manner to identify improvement opportunities
- Develop and implement effective solutions to problems
- Implement strategic reliability improvements over medium to long timeframes
- Build and grow a positive culture across teams and site relating to Reliability Engineering
What you’ll bring
- A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
- A tertiary qualification in engineering
- Demonstrated experience in asset management/reliability skills (defect elimination, asset tactics, lifecycle planning, materials management, etc)
- Qualifications and expertise in formal structured problem solving of any topic
- Expertise in analysis of complex information
- A practical approach to reliability with strong connection to the process and teams
- Demonstrated experience in utilising cross functional teamwork to obtain maximum results
- Effective communication skills to liaise with a variety of stakeholders in all forms and at all levels of the business.
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
- 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)
- Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
- Possible domestic relocation assistance
About Rio Tinto
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
Boyne Smelters Limited is Australia’s second largest aluminium smelter with a 1,000-person strong workforce. Located approximately 20km south east of Gladstone at Boyne Island on the Central Queensland coast, BSL produces around 500,000 tonnes of aluminium per annum.
Activities at BSL include manufacturing carbon anodes in the carbon plant, aluminium production (smelting) in reduction lines, and casting of molten material into aluminium products ready to ship. The smelter is connected via a conveyor belt to the Queensland Alumina Limited refinery for the supply of alumina.
BSL is committed to protecting the environment and ensuring safe work practices where people feel safe at work and care for each other.
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.
Applications close on Friday the 29th of March 2024 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)
