Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineers – Fixed Plant    

Chandler Macleod is looking to appoint an experienced Maintenance Engineer at Rio Tinto’s Hope downs site.
 
In this dynamic role, you will provide maintenance, breakdown and shutdown support failure investigations as well as technical assistance and advice on the effectiveness of maintenance practices, tactics and processes. This is a 8/6 roster FIFO from Perth only

Reporting to the Engineering Superintendent, you will: 

• Adhere to all Rio Tinto health and safety standards, policies and procedures and report any safety hazards and risks to the appropriate channels
• Provide technical advice to Fixed Plant Maintenance and Operations teams
• Communicate asset health, performance and availability through regular meetings
• Provide technical support to maintenance teams for a variety of physical assets, including assisting in planning, prioritisation, provision of technical support for general maintenance work and emergent work (e.g., breakdowns and shutdowns)
• Conduct root cause analyses for asset failures across site
• Be actively involved with and champion the Defect Elimination process across site
• Review daily KPI’s relating to production critical assets or systems
• Participate in reliability facilitated assets tactics development, identify asset tactics that require review / improvement and support implementation of strategy for executing asset tactics and maintenance strategies
• Lead improvement projects centred around maintainability and provide input on design projects
• Document and generate reports and drawings for equipment upgrades and changes
• Develop and implement containment actions from asset health function as required - e.g. work management, systems and processes
• Undertake asset diagnostics and support recovery to assets to a functional state
• Ensure precision maintenance and hydrocarbon management processes adhere to quality standards
• Provide technical support for PM02 / PM03 scope development
• Support risk analysis, monitor and estimate repairs and provide inputs for go / no-go
• Advise on maintenance executive standards / QA
• Manage change management processes relating to maintenance activities

 
About you


To be successfully considered for this role, you will have: 

• HME Mobile maintenance experience
• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team 
• A Current Western Australian ‘C’ Class Driver's Licence (Manual)
• A Bachelor of Engineering in relevant discipline or other relevant technical field experience
• Respect for others and an all-inclusive mindset.
• Ability to work collaboratively in small teams or independently and demonstrate adaptability 
• The desire to be working in a hands on, fast paced position
• Have the ability to provide practical solutions for complex problems
• Demonstrate strong mechanical aptitude
• C Class Driver’s License – Manual
• Demonstrated mechanical experience within a maintenance engineering or reliability engineering role within a mining or industrial environment
• Experience in equipment failure investigation using root cause analyses techniques
• Demonstrate understanding of budget preparation, asset criticality, cost drivers, asset risk, asset performance and asset life cycles
• Demonstrated knowledge of SAP or equivalent CMMS
• Legally entitled to work in Australia without restrictions
• Currently residing in Western Australia

 


At Chandler Macleod, we are committed to fostering a diverse workforce where everyone is welcome. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, women, neurodiverse, people living with a disability and the LGBTIQA+ community.

You can read more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion at https://www.chandlermacleod.com/diversity-and-inclusion.