Rio Tinto Hiring for Equipment Reliability Officer – Electrical Job at Invercargill Full Time

EQUIPMENT RELIABILITY OFFICER – ELECTRICAL

• Join a leading global company
• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
• Tiwai Point, New Zealand

About the role

We are looking for an Equipment Reliability Officer (ERO) with an electrical focus to identify opportunities to extend equipment component life and prevent early life failure.

This role is a great opportunity for a passionate and self-motivated electrical specialist who has exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills. You will support our Reduction maintenance team working in a flexible, fast-paced and improvement focused environment.

In addition to paying competitively and providing great benefits packages, we want you to live the lifestyle that is right for you and your family. And because of our size and scale, there are many opportunities to learn, grow and do more than you ever thought possible. Every hour of every shift, your safety and wellbeing is our number one priority. We do the work only if it is safe, and we invest to make sure every member of the team has the quality tools they need to do their job.

Reporting to the Superintendent Reduction Maintenance and working in a challenging and exciting environment, you will be:

• Providing support and structure to defect elimination efforts liaising with the planned and reactive maintenance leadership team and team member.
• Analysing scheduled maintenance data to identify opportunities to extend component life and prevent early life failure. Facilitate Root Cause Problem Solving to review repeat instances of detecting abnormal component deterioration.
• Supporting and conducting PMO activities to ensure the chosen tactic delivers an optimum labour, materials, and business impact. Update relevant documentation for standardisation of maintenance master data and critical practices e.g. CBPs, SPLs, drawings, BOMs, Critical Maintenance Tasks.
• Keeping abreast of defect elimination practices and liaise with similar roles in across Rio Tinto including our other smelters at BSL and Bell Bay.
• Assisting in the long-term planning both ACRA and Capital, working with procurement on CEA’s, Tenders and contract delivery.

What you will bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Electrical Trade or relevant Engineering qualification
• Experience in PLC programming and Drive
• Exceptional problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated experiencing identifying and leading continuous improvement initiatives
• Experience with SAP business systems as applied to maintenance
• High computer literacy
• Experience in contractor management including HSE, work scope and commercial
• High level of written and verbal communication skills.

What we offer

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP)
• Access to top tier family-friendly health and medical programs
• Excellent retirement plan
• A comprehensive leave policy that covers all moments that matter in life (vacation/annual, paid parental leave, short term sick leave, paid holidays)
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers – generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress.

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe.

Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

Where you will be working

Based at Tiwai Point in New Zealand’s south, NZAS makes aluminium with one of the lowest carbon footprints in the world, and it is the only aluminium smelter to produce ultra-high purity metal using renewable hydroelectricity. Receiving the majority of its alumina from our Yarwun and Queensland Alumina Limited refineries in Gladstone, Australia, the smelter produces more than 335,000 tonnes of aluminium each year.

In January 2021, NZAS reached a new electricity agreement which will extend operations to December 2024. By joining us now, we will set you up for the future. Work is already underway to reskill and retrain our people, with skills transferrable to other industries.

Every Voice Matters

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.

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

Applications close on Friday the 17th June 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)