Technician Asset Health

We encourage women and Indigenous Peoples to apply, as we advance our business to more accurately reflect the world around us.

Asset Health Technician

• The perfect balance, our roster gives you more time for the things that are important in your life and to your family and community

• Fantastic career development opportunity

• Fly in, fly out from Perth only – 8 days on, 6 days off.

About the Role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

Take the next step in your mobile maintenance career as an Asset Health Technician at our Pannawonica operation.

We are looking for someone who is a self-motivated, professional, with strong communication skills a positive and inclusive attitude as well as having a focus on continuous improvement. This is a great opportunity to further your skills and career.

Every hour of every shift, your safety and wellbeing is our number one priority. We do the work only if it is safe, and we invest to make sure every member of the team has the quality tools they need to do their job.

Working a roster of 8 days, 6 days off and reporting to the Asset Health Supervisor, you will be:

• Monitoring the health of heavy mining equipment using real time data.

• Inspect, identify and monitor cracks in the heavy mobile equipment fleet, providing guidance to the execution team on required actions

• Conduct inspections high stress points in assets to determine asset condition (absence of cracks)

• Comply with all relevant internal and industry-accepted standards in the execution of NDT and condition-based inspection works, identifying and recommending improvements in NDT inspection and HME welding practices

• Accurately report all completed inspections using approved reporting formats and templates, including SAP, and responsible for ensuring data is maintained accurately in the relevant databases

• Analysing HME data to identify and prioritise issues or activities identified as safety critical events whilst optimising production opportunities

• Providing expert advice from both your experience working on HME or with the aid of electronic manuals to assist in increasing machine availability or performance

• Support root cause analysis activities

• Work closely with maintenance and reliability engineers and specialist advisors

• Identifying predictive maintenance activities and generating notifications

• Analysing HME oil samples and providing subsequent recommendations to sites

What you will bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• An analytical mind with strong problem-solving skills, sound communication and computer skills

• Heavy machinery trade qualification  

• A strong safety focused mindset

• Knowledge of SAP maintenance systems

• ISO9712 Certified in UT1, MT2 and VT2

• ISO9712 Certified in UT2 Welds (Preferred)

• Oil analysis experience

• Experience in maintaining HME – Komatsu, Caterpillar, Hitachi

What we offer  

• Be recognised for your contribution, you’re 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)  

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

• 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.

We are committed to elevating Indigenous voices and increasing cultural knowledge in our business. Diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together.  To help you on your journey with us, you’ll also have access to:

• Specialist Indigenous Support Advisors are always there for our Indigenous employees and available to support through any aspect of your employment

• Dedicated Indigenous Talent Programme for our Operators and Tradespersons and entry level operational roles. This programme is designed to create long term sustainable careers for our Indigenous Employees to grow into leadership or technical pathways to ensure you have every opportunity to grow your career.

• Indigenous leadership programmes across some professional and operational roles to ensure that we are developing Indigenous Leaders.

Where you’ll be working

Located in the scenic Pilbara region and close to the major centre of Karratha, the vibrant town offers a sought-after lifestyle and affordable living in comfortable subsidised housing.

This is a great opportunity for you and your family to contribute to a unique community and enjoy a wide range of seasonal outdoor activities; allowing you to find the perfect balance between leisure and work. From the popular annual rodeo event to other regular social and cultural activities, local residents can make the most of modern amenities.

The town of Pannawonica is supported by a resident doctor, an excellent primary school with options to undertake secondary school studies in a supervised distance education program, supermarket, and a local community gym and youth centre.

Applications close on the 20th of 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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