Specialist Engineer Process

• Perfect role for a highly motivated individual eager to make significant improvements in a newly established position.

• Flexible work arrangements: 5/2/4/3 Fly-In Fly-Out, or Residential in Dampier / Karratha.

• Permanent role offering a competitive salary, annual bonuses, and a comprehensive benefits package.

About the role

We are seeking a Specialist Process Engineer to provide expert oversight and support for the Dampier Port Operations. This position offers the opportunity to drive continuous improvement by identifying and applying Rio Tinto’s best practices to boost efficiency and effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities:

• Actively foster and communicate a positive safety culture to promote safety awareness and compliance, encouraging prioritisation of safety in all activities and operations

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by identifying, evaluating, and implementing improvement opportunities utilizing a range of Rio Tinto best practices

• Collaborate closely with other functions and stakeholders in the performance of duties

• Coach and support a team of fixed plant process engineering personnel

• Manage fixed plant process engineering activities to maximise productivity while minimising cost and environmental impact

• Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, including statutory obligations

• Lead, organise, and develop site process upgrades to sustain fixed plant and laboratory operations

• Liaise and collaborate with key stakeholders on defect elimination and continuous improvement initiatives

• Advocate for optimized plant production by providing feedback to mine stakeholders regarding feed conformance to plan and identifying suitable changes where required

• Evaluate performance data, analyse and share insights, and prepare reports for site leadership

• Lead and coordinate the site quarterly forecasting (QF) process

• Oversee management of customer quality complaints through collaboration with site stakeholders and leadership of the process engineering team

• Provide subject matter metallurgy expertise to support site stakeholders

What You’ll Bring:

• High proficiency in Microsoft Office, PowerBI, SAP, and data analysis tools (or equivalent software).

• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to validate data, perform numerical analysis, and solve complex problems.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage with stakeholders at all organizational levels.

• Significant expertise in processing and operations.

• Relevant Engineering Degree

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 

• 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

• Work on Country with a residential role which offers company housing and financial support with living expenses including rent and utilities (power and water).

Where you will be working

Our port facilities consist of four shipping terminals located on the Pilbara coast at Dampier and Cape Lambert which form an essential part of our logistics process. Each terminal has facilities for train unloading, iron ore stockpiling, product blending and ship loading.

Ready to experience something unique? Come work with us.

Applications close on 14th August 2025 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)

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 situations and meet opportunities.

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.

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