Electrical & Instrumentation Technician

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

• Permanent employment which includes opportunity to upskill attractive salary annual Incentives and a huge range of additional benefits which are designed to make your life better

• Enjoy the fantastic coastal lifestyle in this residential role with full relocation package to Gladstone offered

About the role

We currently have opportunities forElectrical and Instrumentation Technicianswanting to upskill and obtain HVIA certification or HV Electricians/ Industrial Electricians wanting to upskill and obtain Cert III Instrumentation offered on site to join our high performing Maintenance teams across our Yarwun Operations.

Whether youre new to your trade or an experienced professional and whatever industry you have exposure to we have opportunities that will provide interesting work and growth opportunities for everyone.

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

Your experience career goals and lifestyle preferences will help guide which team you will join including but not limited to:

• Material Handling and Shift Maintenance team(day and night lifestyle roster)

• Utilities Maintenance or RMA (Residue Management Area) Team(Dayshift 9 day fortnight)

• Whiteside/Redside Maintenance team(Dayshift 9 day fortnight Roster).

At Yarwun we are passionate about safety we look out for each other and work together to find better ways to do things. Youll be supported by leaders who care about your development and will help you achieve your career goals.

Reporting to theMaintenance Team Leaderfor your team your role may involve:

• Maintaining and replacing electrical equipment

• Execution of planned and unplanned breakdown maintenance

• Troubleshooting calibrating repair and service of fixed plant instrumentation and electrical assets

• Testing and maintaining HV and power generation systems (Team Dependent)

• Working autonomously being reliable and positively contributing to the maintenance team understanding the requirement to maintain assets in a safe and reliable condition

• Being flexible and adaptable to changing business needs

• Identifying and implementing improvement initiatives which may involve working with many different disciplines within the organisation

• Promoting and identifying HSE opportunities to improve equipment processes and behaviours

• Execution of defined primary and secondary scopes from SAP (CMMS)

What youll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• Respect for others and an all-inclusive mindset

• Valid C Class drivers licence

• An Australian Open electrical license

• Proven history of fault finding and repairs on various electrical equipment

• Proven maintenance experience working in heavy/industrial industry

• HV switching or instrumentation experience preferable

What we offer

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

• Full relocation provided to Gladstone Queensland from elsewhere in Australia

• EEHA Training

• 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

• 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 tofamily-friendly health and medical wellbeingsupport

• Leave for all of lifes 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

Where youll 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 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 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.