Engineer Process – Perth based
* Join our Process Engineering & Major Hazards Division, providing technical support to site and Operations Centre teams
* Extend your technical and operational experience and contribute to the future of iron ore processing
* Role available at Engineer level for OC Shift Support (3d/3n/6off roster)
About the role
All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.
We are currently looking for a processing professional to join our central operational support team. Our OC Support team provides technical support and delivers process improvement initiatives across Rio Tinto Iron Ore. The role is shift based (3d/3n/6off) at the RTIO Operations Centre in Perth, with occasional site travel. Roster allowances will be provided in accordance with the roster and role requirements.
We are a high performing, engaged team of technical specialists working within a structure that supports collaborative problem solving with the operating business. This role is a great opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated Engineer Process to improve our Iron Ore operations.
Within these roles you will be:
* Engaging stakeholders to provide technical process guidance and support across the value chain
* Identifying and implementing process improvement initiatives to support current and future strategy and driving best practice and cross site processing replication opportunities
* Providing subject matter expertise for processing unit operations across our existing and future dry, wet and concentrator processing plants
* Analysing unit operation and plant data to understand processing performance and improvement opportunities across our operations
* Execute process improvements, controller continuous improvement initiatives and assist with plant trials
What you’ll bring
* Relevant tertiary qualifications (Process Engineering, Metallurgy, Chemical Engineering or equivalent)
* Background in process engineering or related technical discipline with fixed plant operational experience
* Ability to work across discipline and geographic boundaries, connecting people to collaboratively solve problems
* Experience in teams that have delivered improvements in safety and operating performance, and continuous improvement objectives
* An analytical approach with strong technical problem solving
* Excellent communication, presentation & influencing skills
* Experience with process flowsheet modelling and PLC logic would be beneficial
What we offer
Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.
* A team where safety (physical and psychological) is always the number one priority
* A competitive salary package 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 and 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 primary carer, sick leave)
* Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
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.
Every Voice Matters
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.
Ready to experience something unique? Come work with us.
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.
Every Voice Matters
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.