- 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
- Opportunities across Yarwun Refinery and Boyne Smelters
About The Role
Finding better ways™ to provide the materials the world needs.
We currently have numerous fulltime permanent opportunities for experienced
Electrical & Instrumentation Technicians, to join our high performing teams situated at both Yarwun Refinery and Boyne Smelter.
You’ll 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, focusing on instrumentation works.
in addition you will closely with our mechanical 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. You’ll be supported by great leaders who care about your development and will help you achieve your career goals.
Current opportunities
Yarwun – Electrical & Instrumentation Technician
- 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 – Electrical & Instrumentation Technician
- 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 electrical equipment
- Execution of planned and unplanned breakdown maintenance
- Troubleshooting, calibrating, repair and service of fixed plant electrical assets
- Working at heights activities
- Planned maintenance including PLC, Instrumentation, motor drives and other plant equipment, including Autonomous Forklift equipment.
- Ability to work effectively both within a team and independently.
- Promote opportunities to improve safety and performance. Working at heights
What You’ll Bring
- A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
- Valid C Class drivers licence
- An Australian 'A' grade Electrical licence
- Instrumentation Certificate
- PLC & SCADA experience desirable.
- Experience with motors & VSDs, working on Conveyors, Crushers & Ship Loaders
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 you’ve 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 you’ve 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 to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
- Leave for all of life’s 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 you’ll be working
Boyne Smelters
Boyne Smelters Limited is Australia’s second largest aluminium smelter with a 1,000-person strong workforce. Located approximately 20km south east of Gladstone at Boyne Island on the Central Queensland coast, BSL produces around 500,000 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 can’t do it on our own, so we’re 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.
