Maintainer Electrical

• Permanent employment which includes attractive salary annual Incentives and a huge range of additional benefits which are designed to make your life better
• Our friendly teams look after each other because your safety and wellbeing are always our priority
• Full domestic relocation offered from anywhere within Australia

Were 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

2026 has seen a lot of changes and growth. We now have a permanent position foran experienced Electrical & Instrumentation Technician to join our Services and Scrubbing team at Boyne Smelter Gladstone.

Our Team is responsible for keeping the scrubbing conveyor electrical instrumentation and control systems running safely and reliably so the smelter can maintain production and environmental performance.

Living in Gladstone offers the perfect balance combining all of the services and facilities that you expect from a city with a relaxed coastal lifestyle - incredible beaches easy access to visit world class reefs and national parks.

Roles and responsibilities:

Reporting to the Team leader and working a 9 Day Roster your role will involve;

• Troubleshooting calibrating repair and service of fixed plant electrical assets which includes Conveyors Scrubbers fume extraction equipment Instrumentation and Analysers power distribution and switchgear equipment.
• Maintaining and replacing electrical equipment.
• Execution of planned and unplanned breakdown maintenance.
• Calibrate repair and service instruments measuring process conditions.
• Work on PLCs instrumentation motor drives (VSDs) MCCs and control systems.
• Ability to work effectively both within a team and independently.
• Promote opportunities to improve safety and performance. Working at heights.

What youll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Valid C Class drivers licence
• An Australian A grade Electrical licence
• Cert 3 Instrumentation Certificate
• PLC & SCADA exposure.
• Experience with Instrumentation motors VSDs & MCC fault-finding experience.
• Experience maintaining conveyors or process plant equipment.

We are committed to promoting diversity within Rio Tinto and as a special measure to we strongly encourage women to apply.

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution your thinking and your hard work and go home knowing youve helped the world progress.

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Domestic relocation assistance from anywhere within Australia
• 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 lifes reasons (vacation/annual paid parental sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking accommodation cars retail and more)

Where youll be working

Boyne Smelters

Boyne Smelters Limited is Australias second largest aluminium smelter with a 1000-person strong workforce. Located approximately 20km south east of Gladstone at Boyne Island on the Central Queensland coast BSL produces around 500000 tonnes of aluminium per annum.

Activities at BSL include manufacturing carbon anodes in the carbon plant aluminium production (smelting) in reduction lines and casting of molten material into aluminium products ready to ship. The smelter is connected via a conveyor belt to the Queensland Alumina Limited refinery for the supply of alumina.

BSL is committed to protecting the environment and ensuring safe work practices where people feel safe at work and care for each other.

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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 cant do it on our own so were 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.