Maintenance Mechanical Fitter

• 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
• Yarwun Refinery and Boyne Smelter Opportunities available

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We currently have numerous fulltime permanent opportunities forexperienced Mechanical Fittersto join our high performing teams situated at both Yarwun Refinery and Boyne Smelter.

Youll be part of a Maintenance Team handling both planned maintenance and responding to breakdowns as they arise. Your main focus will be keeping fixed plant equipment running safely and reliably in addition you will closely with our electrical team to diagnose and troubleshoot reactive works in a timely manner at our aluminium smelter or refinery environment.

At Rio Tinto 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 great leaders who care about your development and will help you achieve your career goals.

Current opportunities:

Yarwun Maintenance Fitters

• Redside / Whiteside Maintenance 9 day fortnight Roster
• Utilities / RMA 9 Day fortnight Roster
• Material Handling / Shift Maintenance 5/4/5 Day Roster or 5/4/5 D/N Roster
• Digestion 5/4/5 Day roster

Boyne Smelter Maintenance Fitters

• Reduction Maintenance 5/4/5 Day Roster
• Carbon Maintenance 5/4/5 Day/Night shift roster
• Shift Maintenance 5/4/5 Day/Night shift roster
• Metal Products 9 Day roster

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Maintaining and replacing mechanical equipment.
• Execution of planned and unplanned breakdown maintenance.
• Troubleshooting calibrating repair and service of fixed plant assets.
• Work independently and contribute positively to the maintenance team ensuring assets are kept safe and reliable.
• Prioritising and self-managing breakdown repairs. Identifying defects / support defect elimination process
• Promote opportunities to improve safety and performance. Working at heights

What youll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Respect for others and an all-inclusive mindset
• Current valid C Class drivers licence
• A Mechanical or Fitter & Turner trade qualification
• Proven history of fault finding troubleshooting and repairs on various fixed plant equipment
• Maintenance experience working in heavy/industrial industry.
• Experience working on Conveyors fixed plant overhauls & rebuilds

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.

• Full relocation provided to Gladstone Queensland from elsewhere in Australia
• 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

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.

Yarwun Refinery

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.

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.