Mechanical Engineer | Gladstone

• Put your mechanical engineering expertise to work, improving the safety, reliability and performance of critical assets at our Yarwun Refinery

• Permanent, full-time opportunity which includes attractive salary, annual incentives and a range of additional benefits designed to make your life better

• Gladstone-based role working Monday to Friday (9-day fortnight) roster, providing you with the ability to live and enjoy the coastal lifestyle

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 Mechanical Engineer to join our Asset Management team and support the safe, reliable and cost-effective performance of our assets.

In this role, you’ll provide mechanical engineering and asset management support across projects, operations and maintenance activities, helping ensure our assets and installations are safe, fit for purpose and aligned with engineering standards.

This is a great opportunity for an engineer who enjoys solving practical asset challenges, working closely with operational teams and building their capability in asset management, reliability and engineering assurance.

What you’ll be doing

Reporting to the Specialist Engineer Mechanical, and working collaboratively with various teams, you will:

• Support the implementation and ongoing application of asset management systems and processes
• Identify opportunities to improve asset management practices by gathering feedback and working with key stakeholders
• Partner with Business Units and operational sites to embed and sustain asset management systems and processes
• Provide mechanical engineering support to projects and operational and maintenance teams
• Collect and interpret asset health and performance data from multiple sources to support assessment of equipment condition and risk
• Support compliance with mechanical engineering standards, performance standards and associated assurance requirements
• Contribute to safe, cost-effective and fit-for-purpose engineering solutions and installations

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have the following:

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• A tertiary qualification in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline
• Mechanical engineering experience within an operational, maintenance, industrial or asset-intensive environment
• Experience providing technical engineering support to operations, maintenance or project activities
• An understanding of asset management, maintenance, reliability or equipment lifecycle principles
• Ability to analyse technical and asset information to support assessment of equipment condition, performance and risk
• An understanding of engineering standards, specifications and assurance requirements
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, maintenance, operations and other stakeholders

Desirable experience

• Experience within mining, minerals processing, manufacturing, heavy industry or a similarly asset-intensive environment
• Exposure to asset health monitoring, condition monitoring, reliability engineering or maintenance strategy development
• Experience working with asset management or computerised maintenance systems
• Exposure to continuous improvement, equipment failure analysis or risk-based asset management practices

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 and salary packaging options

• Career development and 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 and cultural leave)

• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)

• Possible domestic relocation assistance

Where you’ll be working

Located in Central Queensland, approximately 10km north-west of Gladstone, Yarwun alumina refinery commenced operations in 2004.  Processing bauxite from our mines in Weipa and Gove, Yarwun produces more than three million tonnes of smelter grade alumina annually. 

As one of the largest industries in the Gladstone region, Yarwun employs over 700 people and has a large contractor workforce. With a focus on safely improving our process every day, the team at Yarwun challenge themselves to use existing and emerging technology to support our 24-hour operation.  

Yarwun is a proud member of the Gladstone community, and along with Boyne Smelters Limited and Queensland Alumina Limited, support community investments that improve the liveability of the Gladstone region through the Here for Gladstone community fund.  

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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 LGBTQ+ 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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