Officer Isolation Fixed Plant

• Flexibility for the lifestyle you want on a 8 days on, 6 off roster
• FIFO from Perth a
• Opportunities and Support to learn and grow your career

We’re Finding Better Ways™ to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future.  Our values care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.

About the role

We are looking for a Isolation Officer to join our Paraburdoo operations team. You will support the technical, compliance and process coordinating activities of the Supervisor Fixed Plant.

Every day our leaders grow, while our rosters are designed to help you live the lifestyle that is right for you and your family. 

Reporting to the Supervisor Plant Shutdowns, you will:  

• Adhere to all Rio Tinto standards, policies and procedures
• 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 utilising arrange of Rio Tinto best practices
• Develop isolation permits for fixed plant shutdowns
• From the Shutdown scope, develop a shutdown isolation permit plan and schedule effectively resourced and sequenced to minimise delays and impact to both the shut duration and work front interfaces
• Manage the sites task isolation database and system including the approval and review of task isolation procedures
• Maintain integrity of task isolation system
• Adhere to the Shutdown Procedure in terms of isolation requirements for shutdown work

What you’ll bring  

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• A Current Western Australian ‘C’ Class Driver's Licence (Manual)
• Relevant trade qualification (mechanical, electrical, fabrication) (preferred)
• Expert in all types of isolations, issuing permits and authorisations
• Understand current SOPs fixed plant maintenance shutdowns plans
• RTIO Isolation Permit, Site Mechanical and Electrical Isolation Officer (preferred)

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, personal & cultural leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

Where you will be working

Located 80 kilometres southwest of Tom Price, Paraburdoo rests on the traditional lands of the Yinhawangka people.

With the opening of the Western Range at Paraburdoo Operations, the site now has the capacity to produce up to 25 million tonnes of iron ore annually supporting the longevity of the Paraburdoo mining hub for up to 20 years.

Ready to experience something unique? Come work with us.

Applications close on  12 August 2026 (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.

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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