Advisor Maintenance – Tampers

Rio Tinto; Dampier; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Safety-first culture

Permanent Rio Tinto role

Annual incentive program

Private health insurance

Share ownership plan

Salary packaging options

Education and development support

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Rio Tinto in Dampier is seeking an Advisor Maintenance - Tampers to provide day-to-day technical advice across Rolling Stock Maintenance. You will support the Tamper fleet and stakeholders to improve performance and reliability, delivering safe, effective maintenance outcomes.

You will work with rail, engineering and planning teams to drive proactive inspection, repairs and continuous improvement, under the Superintendent Maintenance.

Qualifications

• Commitment to safety of yourself and your team.
• Relevant mechanical, electrical or heavy mobile plant trade qualification or demonstrated equivalent experience.
• Experience maintaining tampers, regulators, rolling stock or similar heavy equipment.
• Experience assessing asset condition and prioritising defects.
• Working knowledge of SAP planning and maintenance processes.
• Current WA C Class manual driver’s licence.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical advice and mentoring to Tamper maintenance teams.
• Perform asset condition assessments and prioritise maintenance work using risk and reliability.
• Plan proactive inspections and repairs to reduce downtime.
• Coordinate small repairs and escalation for faults.
• Scope and monitor defects; support root cause analysis.
• Utilise SAP to manage maintenance tasks and inspections.
• Lead safety improvements and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Tamper maintenance

Asset condition assessment

SAP maintenance

Coaching & mentoring

Safety leadership

Maintenance planning

Education

Trade qualification/engineering qualification

Tools

SAP

Job description

• Provide technical maintenance advice that improves Track Machine fleet reliability, asset integrity and safe operational performance.
• Grow your influence through condition assessment, defect elimination, coaching and continuous improvement across Rolling Stock Maintenance.
• Work in Dampier, supporting Rio Tinto’s integrated Pilbara port and logistics operations.

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 are looking for an Advisor Maintenance - Tampers to provide day-to-day technical assistance, support and expert advice across Rolling Stock Maintenance. Reporting to the Superintendent Maintenance, you will support the Tamper fleet and key internal and external stakeholders to improve performance and reliability. You will also provide critical support to the Track Machine maintenance team to deliver safe, effective maintenance outcomes and achieve system performance objectives.

What You’ll Be Doing

Reporting to the Superintendent Maintenance and working with Rolling Stock Maintenance, rail operations, engineering and planning teams, you will

• Provide technical advice, coaching and mentoring to Tamper maintenance teams and relevant operational stakeholders.
• Perform comprehensive critical asset condition assessments and prioritise maintenance work using risk, cost and reliability considerations.
• Plan proactive inspection and repair opportunities that reduce downtime and operational impact.
• Coordinate small repairs and breakdown escalation when faults cannot be rectified immediately.
• Scope and monitor existing defects, supporting root cause analysis and practical corrective actions.
• Use SAP to support effective maintenance work management, ensuring identified defects, maintenance tasks and inspection outcomes are appropriately captured and progressed.
• Demonstrate strong safety leadership and ensure hazards, critical controls and maintenance risks are effectively identified and managed.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen safety, reliability, cost performance and work quality.

About You

We’re looking for someone whose experience aligns with the key requirements below. You do not need to meet every “helpful for success” item to apply. If you bring relevant experience and are excited by the opportunity.

Required for Success

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
• A relevant mechanical, electrical or heavy mobile plant trade qualification, engineering qualification, or demonstrated equivalent technical experience.
• Demonstrated maintenance experience with Tampers, Regulators, rolling stock, rail maintenance equipment or comparable heavy mobile equipment.
• Experience assessing asset condition, prioritising defects and developing safe maintenance responses.
• Working knowledge of SAP planning and maintenance work management processes.
• A current Western Australian C Class manual driver’s license.

Helpful for Success

• Leadership or coaching experience with maintenance personnel and contractors.
• Knowledge of relevant Australian Standards, regulations and interface protection requirements.
• Experience with breakdown analysis, defect elimination, reliability improvement or small repair scopes.

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
• 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 and salary packaging options
• Career development and 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, personal and cultural leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

Where you’ll be working

Our integrated operations, which include port facilities, ensure we can supply the right quality product to our customers when they need it. We blend our products at our own ports, which allows us to produce a reliable and consistent product. Because we have dedicated shipping operations, we are able to better control the delivery of product to our customers.

We operate four independent shipping terminals at two locations, Cape Lambert and Dampier, managed as a single port system. Dampier has terminals at Parker Point and East Intercourse Island, loading approximately three ships per day.

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 LGBTQ+ 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 irrespective of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.