Maintainer

About the role

We are looking for a Mechanical and Electrical Maintainers to perform preventative and breakdown maintenance tasks on our Ore car and Service Car Fleet in our Wagon Maintenance Team.

Working as a Wagon Maintainer you will be required to work with our RSM team to Inspect, Maintain and repair one of the most reliable Rail car fleets in the World

The successful candidate will be a self-starting, motivated individual who is looking to showcase their technical Mechanical and Fabrication skillset, whilst striving for continuous improvement within Health & Safety, Cost, Production, and Maintenance improvement opportunities.

This is a Residential role, living in the coastal region of Karratha/ Dampier, offering comprehensive relocation assistance, subsidized housing and other residential lifestyle allowances and benefits.

Working an attractive 3 Days 3 Nights, 6 Days off roster reporting to the Wagon Maintenance Supervisor, you will be:

• Performing assigned preventative and when required, reactive Mechanical and Fabrication maintenance to ensure the reliability of our Ore car and Service car fleet including the following –

• Wagon Maintenance Mechanical–

  • Wagon Servicing

  • Wheel Change outs

  • Brake testing

  • Preventative Maintenance

  • Breakdown response

  • Tunnel Welding repairs

• Wagon Maintenance Electrical–

  • Wagon Servicing

  • Wheel Change outs

  • Brake testing

  • Preventative Maintenance

  • Breakdown response

What you’ll bring

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

• A Mechanical or Fabrication background

• Sound computer skills (SAP / MS Office suite)

• Proven ability to work in a collaborative environment with other disciplines, including testing and commissioning, and related documentation.

• A Manual C Class driver’s license.

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

• An Electrical trade qualification

• WA “A” Grade Electrical License

• Sound computer skills (SAP / MS Office suite)

• Proven ability to work in a collaborative environment with other disciplines, including testing and commissioning, and related documentation.

• A Manual C Class driver’s license

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Rail Experience

• HR Class Drivers License

• High risk licenses (Elevated Work Platform, Forklift, rigging and/or dogging ticket)

• Exposure to a maintenance management system, such as SAP

What we offer

• Be recognized 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 may be 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 subsidized private health insurance for employees and immediate family.

• Attractive share ownership plan

• 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, read more about the huge range of benefits

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 Program for our Operators and Tradespersons and entry level operational roles. This program 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 programs across some professional and operational roles to ensure that we are developing Indigenous Leaders

Where you’ll be working 

Working out of our 7 Mile Workshop in Dampier, we operate 13500 Ore Cars on more than 1,700 kilometres of track in the Pilbara. transporting ore from 16 mines to four port terminals. The average return distance of these trains is about 800 kilometres with the average journey cycle, including loading and dumping, taking approximately 40 hours.

Our network is the largest privately owned and operated heavy haul rail system in Australia, and as we focus on the future, our vision is to become the greatest heavy haul railway in the world. 

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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