Electrical & Instrumentation Fitters

• 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
• Full domestic relocation offered from anywhere within Australia

We’re Finding Better Ways™ to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future. Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.

About the role

We currently have numerous fulltime permanent opportunities for experienced Electrical & Instrumentation Fitters, to join our high performing teams situated at both Yarwun Refinery or 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.

Living in Gladstone offers the perfect balance combining all of the services and facilities that you expect from a city with a relaxed coastal lifestyle - incredible beaches, easy access to visit world class reefs and national parks.

Your experience, career goals and lifestyle preferences will help guide which team you will join, with opportunities in:

Yarwun – Electrical & Instrumentation Fitters

• Redside / Whiteside Maintenance – 9 day fortnight Roster
• Utilities / RMA – 9 Day fortnight Roster
• Material Handling / Shift Maintenance – 5/4/5 lifestyle Day Roster
• Digestion – 5/4/5 Day roster

Boyne Smelter – Electrical & Instrumentation Fitters

• 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.

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Domestic relocation assistance, from anywhere within Australia
• 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)
• Exclusive employee discounts (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.

BSL is committed to protecting the environment and ensuring safe work practices where people feel safe at work and care for each other.

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.