Condition Monitoring Technician

Rio Tinto; Point Samson; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Attractive salary and annual bonuses

Subsidised housing and relocation

Private health insurance for employees

Extensive salary sacrifice options

Career development and education

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Rio Tinto is seeking a CapLam Port Fixed Plant Condition Monitoring Technician to enable condition based strategies and improve equipment reliability for a major port facility in Western Australia. You will join a high-performing team and contribute to asset health reporting, data analysis, and proactive maintenance planning.

Reporting to the Supervisor, Asset Health, the role involves data collection, analysis of vibration/oil/thermography, and collaboration with maintenance and lubrication

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in Fixed Plant Condition Monitoring (essential).
• Certified VCAT Level II in vibration analysis or related field.
• Mechanical Trade qualification or equivalent with reliability background.
• Experience with Oil Analysis, Lubrication and Thermography preferred.
• NDT experience (Magnetic Particle Level 2, UT Thickness) preferred.
• Ability to pass pre-employment medical and drug/alcohol screening.

Responsibilities

• Undertake data collection using condition monitoring vibration, oil analysis and thermography surveys with onsite assessment.
• Analyse data from vibration, oil and thermography to diagnose faults.
• Prepare reports on condition monitoring and asset health conditions.
• Respond to ad-hoc support requests from maintenance teams.
• Collaborate with maintenance and lubrication teams to improve plant reliability.
• Perform offline inspections and NDT inspections; report condition and maintenance recommendations.

Skills

VCAT II

Condition Monitoring

Vibration Analysis

Oil Analysis

Thermography

NDT Level 2

Mechanical Asset Reliability

MHM

SAP

Driver's Licence

Education

Mechanical Trade qualification

Certified VCAT Level II

Reliability engineering background (preferred)

Tools

MHM

SAP

Job description

• Permanent employment which includes attractive salary, annual bonuses and a huge range of additional benefits which are designed to make your life better.
• Residential lifestyle with subsidised housing and relocation to the coast.
• Residential role working an 8 6 / 7 7 roster, day shift only.

• Permanent employment which includes attractive salary, annual bonuses and a huge range of additional benefits which are designed to make your life better.
• Residential lifestyle with subsidised housing and relocation to the coast.
• Residential role working an 8 6 / 7 7 roster, day shift only.

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

About The Role

We are looking for a Condition Monitoring Technician to join our Cape Lambert Port Fixed Plant Team to enable condition based strategies in order to improve equipment reliability and improve overall equipment effectiveness.

This role is a great opportunity to be part of a high performing team environment and develop your career further.

Reporting to the Supervisor, Asset Health and working in a collaborative community you will

• Undertake data collection using condition monitoring vibration analysis, oil analysis and thermography surveys with onsite assessment of fixed plant machine condition.
• Analysis of the data collected from vibration, oil and thermography.
• Reporting on condition monitoring and diagnosing faults.
• Respond to ad-hoc support requests.
• Collaborate with maintenance and lubrication teams to ensure plant reliability.
• Perform offline inspections, and perform NDT inspections of assets, and report condition, as well as any maintenance recommendations.

What You’ll Bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
• Certified VCAT - Level II Certified.
• Mechanical Trade qualification and/or reliability engineering background (preferred).
• Experience with Oil Analysis, Lubrication and Thermography (preferred).
• Experience with NDT - Magnetic Particle Level 2, UT Thickness Testing/Belts (preferred).
• 5+ years’ experience in Fixed Plant Condition Monitoring (essential).
• Highly competent in technical aspects of Fixed Plant (essential).
• Proficiency in MHM and SAP (preferred).
• Knowledge Mechanical Asset failure modes as well as Root Cause Failure Analysis (desirable).
• Australian C Class manual drivers licence.
• Ability to pass a pre-employment medical including a drug & alcohol screening.

It will also be beneficial if you have

• Working experience with CSI - MHM, RBM View Databases and CSI 2130/2140 vibration analyser, VCAT-II and the internal RTIO standard SS-A020.
• Thermography Level 1 and Ultrasonic Level 1.
• Experience with airborne acoustics detection.
• Certifications and experience in thermography, balancing of rotating machinery and ultrasonic testing.

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 & 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, personal & 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. And because we have dedicated shipping operations, we are able to better control the delivery of product to our customers. We operate 4 independent shipping terminals at 2 locations, Cape Lambert and Dampier, managed as a single port system. Cape Lambert has two terminals, Cape Lambert A and B, with approximately 4 ships loaded per day. #gts

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