Overview
Maintenance Mechanical Fitters – Boyne Smelter. Rio Tinto is hiring for Maintenance Mechanical Fitters onsite at Boyne Smelter and Gladstone Operations. Opportunities are available for both new and experienced tradespeople across multiple maintenance teams.
We are seeking passionate, safety-focused Mechanical Fitters / Fitter & Turners. You will join high-performing maintenance teams and contribute to keeping assets safe, reliable and well-maintained.
Responsibilities
- Maintaining and replacing mechanical equipment
- Execution of planned and unplanned breakdown maintenance
- Troubleshooting, calibration, repair and service of fixed plant assets
- Working at heights activities
- Working autonomously, being reliable and positively contributing to the maintenance team
- Understanding the requirement to maintain assets in a safe and reliable condition
- Identifying and implementing improvement initiatives across multiple disciplines
- Promoting and identifying HSE opportunities to improve equipment, processes and behaviours
- Identifying defects and supporting defect elimination processes
What You’ll Bring
- Commitment to safety of yourself and your team
- Respect for others and an all-inclusive mindset
- Valid C Class driver’s licence
- Australian A‑grade Electrical licence
- Instrumentation Certificate advantageous
- Working at Heights/EWP desirable
- Experience in planned maintenance including conveyors, PLC, instrumentation and other plant equipment
- Proven fault-finding and repair skills on various electrical equipment
- Maintenance experience in heavy/industrial environments
What We Offer
- Full relocation provided to Gladstone, Queensland from elsewhere in Australia
- 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 and extensive salary packaging options
- Career development and education assistance to further technical or leadership goals
- Family-friendly health and wellbeing support
- Leave provisions including vacation/annual, paid parental, sick, and cultural leave
- Paid parental leave option of 18 weeks
Where You’ll Be Working
Boyne Smelter is Australia’s second largest aluminium smelter, located about 20 km southeast of Gladstone at Boyne Island. The site employs around 1,000 people and produces around 500,000 tonnes of aluminium per year. Operations include carbon anode production, reduction lines aluminium production, and casting of molten aluminium, with a conveyor-connected relationship to Queensland Alumina Limited. Rio Tinto is committed to safety and environmental responsibility.
About Rio Tinto
Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company operating in 35 countries. We focus on innovation, continuous improvement and responsible environmental, social and governance standards in the materials we provide for the world’s needs. We value diverse perspectives and partnerships to solve problems and create opportunities.
Equal Opportunity
Every Voice Matters. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from diverse cultural backgrounds. We strive for an inclusive environment where all voices are heard and everyone is treated with dignity.
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