Engineer Electrical & Control Systems
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FIFO from Perth to Yandi or GDI Hub – Family Friendly roster – 8 days on, 6 days off.
Our friendly teams look after each other because safety and wellbeing are always our priority.
This roster gives you more time for the things that are important in your life and your family and community.
About The Role
Step into a diverse and inclusive team at Rio Tinto's Maintenance, Planning & Engineering function as our next Electrical and Control Systems Engineer.
In this role, you'll play a key part in ensuring the safety, reliability, and performance of Fixed Plant electrical, control systems, and instrumentation assets—driving real impact across our operations.
Reporting to the MP&E Engineering Superintendent, you will be responsible for the following duties:
Adhere to all Rio Tinto health and safety standards, policies and procedures and report any safety hazards and risks.
Minimize business interruptions by providing engineering support for escalated electrical, control system, network, and instrumentation faults.
Provide technical guidance and oversight for complex instrumentation, control systems, and electrical asset maintenance work.
Execute programs of work to optimize asset management for electrical assets.
Support the implementation of improvement work to IOWA engineering standards.
Implement DE improvements to control system and electrical assets.
Collaborate with MP&E central teams to share learnings and support replication opportunities.
Review Management of Change for site assets, including control system and process control assets.
Lead and support investigations into incidents and outages.
Manage onsite spares for electrical, control system, and instrumentation assets.
Oversee configuration management for electrical, control system, and instrumentation assets.
Lead capital projects for electrical, control system, and instrumentation upgrades.
Coordinate with central E&C Engineering and act as the point of escalation for complex control system and electrical asset fault diagnosis and recovery.
Monitor and maintain advanced control system schemes.
Support and execute machine protection and safety-related control system audits.
What You'll Bring
Knowledge and experience in electrical engineering and process control disciplines.
Ability to solve a range of problems using largely defined procedures and solutions.
Strong communication skills to present specialist subject matter to non-specialist stakeholders.
Ability to work well in a solo or team environment.
Knowledge of Reliability Engineering and Asset Management practices.
Knowledge of Electrical Safety, Transformers, Generators, Switchgear, ABB VSDs, UPSs, HVAC, Motors, Cabling, Instrumentation, Earthing, Functional Safety, Arc Flash, Electrical Protection, Legislation, Regulations, Australian Standards, Control Systems – Schneider, Citect SCADA, Process Control.
Current 'C' Class Driver's License (Manual).
A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
Respect for others and an all-inclusive mindset.
Functional Safety experience.
Where you'll be working
This role is offered on an 8 days on, 6 days off family friendly roster, FIFO from Perth to Yandi or Gudai Darri Hub.
Yandicoogina and Gudai-Darri are located in the East Pilbara region, offering high-producing iron ore mining operations.
What we offer
Safety as the number one priority.
Permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto.
Competitive base salary 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.
Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support.
Leave for all of life's reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick & cultural leave).
Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more).
Possible domestic relocation assistance.
Inclusiveness
We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves.
We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTQIA+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.
Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology – Mining and Oil and Gas
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