Specialist Engineer Reliability

Specialist Engineer Reliability | Amrun

• Amrun based role BIBO 9 Day Fortnight
• Be part of a safe, diverse team of professionals
• Enjoy a relaxed coastal lifestyle in an ideal residential environment – Weipa
• We offer paid parental leave entitlements and flexible work arrangements
   

About the role
 

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.
 

We are looking for a Specialist Engineer Reliability to lead the plant reliability engineering team at our Amrun operation ensuring that asset performance is monitored, improved and is consistently available to meet the operational plan requirements.
 

This role requires a resilient and self-motivated individual to interface with a broad range of stakeholder groups, displaying credibility, building trust and influencing outcomes. You will be an expert problem solver, levelheaded thinker and most importantly committed to driving positive outcomes for your team and the business.
 

The Amrun Mine Site is located 40 kilometers south west of Weipa with a life expectancy of 40 plus years to expand our bauxite operations and continue production from one of the world’s premier bauxite deposits. This expansion will strengthen the economy and provide exciting opportunities for the people of Cape York and Queensland for future generations.
 

Working a 9-day fortnight roster and reporting to the Plant Maintenance Superintendent, you will be required to:

• Lead, develop and coach the reliability engineering team and train graduates and new engineers.
• Use data and reliability processes to focus improvement effort in achieving optimal availability of fixed and heavy mobile equipment across both northern and southern operations.
• Facilitate and continuously improve the Defect Elimination Process.
• Facilitate RCA’s and drive RCA process rigor across site.
• Monitor equipment performance and evaluate equipment history and failure trends to determine sources of poor component performance
• Periodically review assets criticality ensuring that efforts are directed to the correct assets.
• Review, develop and improve maintenance strategies and tactics.
• Evaluate equipment failure modes and utilise engineering experience and training to develop solutions for eliminating/mitigating potential failure
• Advise and confer with discipline engineers in design review meetings to provide reliability-based recommendations
• Review engineering specifications/drawings and propose design modifications to improve reliability within cost and other performance requirements
• Partner with other Rio Tinto sites to develop Reliability Best Practices and to collaboratively work through common issues.
   

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• A Bachelor of Engineering or Trade Qualified (Mechanical or Electrical discipline)
• Experience in a reliability engineering role in mining or heavy industry
• Proven experience in leading, coaching and developing teams
• Data Collection and Statistical Analysis skills, particularly of asset management metrics
• Knowledge of Maintenance Tactics development processes (e.g. FMEA, RRCM)
• Knowledge of RCA methodologies (FMEA, APOLLO, CED
   

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Experience with GE APM (Modules: ASM, ASI, RCA, ACA)
• Experience with RCA PROACT Methodology
• SAP experience
• Recognised innovation capabilities and ability to challenge the status-quo.

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
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical programs, pension and savings plans
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts
• Domestic relocation assistance
• Weipa accommodation benefit
• Remote area allowance
• Amrun Allowance
• Remote area holiday travel assistance
   

Where you will 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 tons of bauxite.
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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.

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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.

Respect and Inclusion

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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