Heavy Mobile Equipment Inspector
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Job Summary
- Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
- Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
- The perfect balance our roster gives you more time for the things that are important in your life and to your family and community FIFO ex Perth or Busselton
Were Finding Better Waysto 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
Take the next step in your mobile maintenance career as a Heavy Maintenance Equipment Inspector within the Mobile Maintenance Asset Health Team at Gudai-Darri.
This role is a great opportunity for an enthusiastic hands on individual who is looking to take ownership of the fleet by applying their technical knowledge to undertake regular equipment inspections & repairs to our Caterpillar 6060 & 6040 Excavators Caterpillar 994 & 992 Loaders and Caterpillar ancillary fleet working with the team of other HME Inspectors and Asset Health Technicians.
The Equipment Inspector is to become the eyes and ears of the planning and execution teams actively monitoring assets and providing regular reports of condition back to the Planning and Execution teams.
Reporting to the Asset Health Supervisor and working 8 days on 6 days off FIFO roster from Perth or Busselton you will be required to:
- Conduct routine inspections on our heavy mobile equipment
- Maintain a high level of safety awareness and comply with all RTIO Company Policies and procedures
- Actively contribute to continuous improvement projects increasing safety whilst reducing risk & cost
- Utilise SAP to ensure that maintenance tasks are recorded assigned correctly and completed to the relevant standard / specification
- Work autonomously working on new fleet
- Good stakeholder engagement- Working in with planning teams to prioritize work required and reviewing outstanding work to be completed to optimise down time on all our fleet
- Pro-actively seek opportune times to complete inspections to reduce downtime and impact on the business.
- Work with Mine Ops to schedule inspections each day to minimise impact on production.
- Ensure all notifications raised are completed to a high standard.
- Key contributor to building a maintenance schedule that allows the equipment to operate safe & reliably (no breakdowns between services) while minimizing the time of each service (not striving to make the equipment brand new)
What you will bring
To be successfully considered for this role you will have:
- Heavy-Duty Fitter Trade Qualification
- Comprehensive knowledge of Heavy Mobile Equipment
- Solid history in surface mining
- Excellent diagnostic and fault-finding abilities
- Good understanding of SAP maintenance systems or similar
- An Australian C Class manual drivers licence or higher
- High Risk Licences Elevated Work Platform EWP Forklift
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
- A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
- 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 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 110km north-west of Newman our Gudai-Darri iron ore mine is our most technologically advanced mine. It leverages technology such as autonomous trucks trains drills and water carts. Gudai-Darri also has more than 70 design innovations including a reclaimer with a rotable bucket wheel a fully automated robotic laboratory and in-field access to data and systems for all team members.
Applications for this role will close on 30/03/2026 however we do reserve the right to close the role earlier.
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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.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- New Equipment
- Equipment Performance
- Parts Inventory
- personal protective
- Semiconductor
- Project Management
- Process Control
- Equipment Design
- Equipment Issues
- Equipments inspection
- Mechanical Equipment
- Maintenance Activities
- Visual Inspections
- Data Analysis
- Air Compressors
About Company
Rio Tinto is a leading global mining group that focuses on finding, mining and processing the Earth’s mineral resources. Discover more about Rio Tinto's mining operations today.
