Heavy Duty Fitters - Paraburdoo

Rio Tinto; Paraburdoo; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company housing in residential towns

Relocation assistance

Annual incentive program

Private medical benefits

Job summary

Rio Tinto is seeking Heavy Duty Diesel Fitters for the residential Paraburdoo/Tom Price area. You will maintain mobile equipment, perform scheduled and unscheduled tasks, and uphold safety as a priority. Housing and relocation support are provided to live locally.

You will work under the Superintendent Maintenance Operations with a focus on safety, reliability, and collaboration across maintenance teams. Training and career growth opportunities are offered.

Qualifications

• Commitment to safety of yourself and the team.
• Experience with SAP or similar maintenance systems.
• Knowledge of maintenance legislation and preventive practices.
• Diagnostic fault-finding and prioritising work to meet deadlines.
• Experience maintaining heavy mobile equipment (HME).
• Trade qualification as Heavy Equipment or Diesel Mechanical Fitter.
• WA C Class Driver’s Licence (Manual) or higher.
• HVIA CPR and safety certificates current.
• Confined Space and Working at Heights certificates current.
• High Risk Work Licences (LF, WP) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Foster a positive safety culture across maintenance activities.
• Perform scheduled and unscheduled maintenance to high standards.
• Inspect workshop tooling like stands, jacks, and lifting gear.
• Carry out auto electrical repairs where qualified, incl. A/C.
• Assist in shutdown maintenance activities.
• Improve equipment reliability and availability.
• Complete isolations and inspections and raise quality notes in SAP.
• Report fault indications and defects as required.
• Deliver quality handovers with oncoming crews and other teams.

Skills

Safety commitment

SAP experience

Legislation & maintenance principles

Diagnostic fault-finding

HME equipment maintenance

Heavy equipment / Diesel fitter trade

WA C Class Driver's Licence (Manual)

HVIA CPR & safety certificates

Confined Space & Working at Heights

High Risk Work Licences LF/WP

Education

Heavy Equipment / Diesel Mechanical Fitter trade qualification

HVIA certificate

HLTCPR201A Perform CPR

Confined Space & Working at Heights certificates

High Risk Work Licences (LF, WP)

Tools

SAP

Job description

Heavy Duty Diesel Fitters – Mobile Equipment Maintenance – Residential

• Our lifestyle rosters give you more time for what matters, family, community, and the freedom to explore our incredible outback.
• Living close to our operations means embracing an adventurous lifestyle - red earth landscapes, ancient gorges, and coastal escapes.
• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
• Paraburdoo Residential opportunities only – Housing & Relocation support provided for you and your family.

About the role:

Finding better ways™ to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for Heavy Duty Diesel Fitters to maintain mobile equipment maintenance fleet by performing scheduled and unscheduled maintenance tasks. This is a great opportunity for a candidates who live residentially to Paraburdoo or Tom Price or is willing to relocate to live residentially.

In addition to paying competitively and providing great benefits packages, we want you to live the lifestyle that is right for you and your family. And because of our size and scale, there are many opportunities to learn, grow and do more than you ever thought possible. Every hour of every shift, your safety and wellbeing is our number one priority. We do the work only if it is safe, and we invest to make sure every member of the team has the quality tools they need to do their job.

Reporting to Superintendent Maintenance Operations , and working in a collaborative community within Mobile Maintenance, you will:

• Actively foster and communicate a positive safety culture to promote safety awareness and compliance, encouraging prioritisation of safety in all activities and operations.
• Perform scheduled and unscheduled maintenance tasks and repairs to a high standard to minimise downtime (e.g. rework)
• Perform inspections on workshop tooling including stands, jacks and lifting equipment, and maintain workshop tooling where applicable e.g. platforms, jacks and stands
• Perform auto electrical repairs where qualified to do so including air conditions repairs
• Assist in the execution of shutdown maintenance
• Actively work towards increasing equipment reliability as well as availability
• Complete isolations and inspections to identify faults and raise quality notifications in SAP.
• Report indications of defects as required
• Complete quality handovers with oncoming crews and other maintenance teams as required

What you’ll bring:

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Computer skills and previous experience with SAP or similar
• Sound knowledge of legislation and proactive maintenance principles
• Diagnostic fault-finding abilities, plan, priorities work to meet deadlines
• Experience maintaining HME equipment – tracks and/or tyres preferred Qualifications
• Heavy Equipment or Diesel Mechanical Fitter or similar trade qualification
• A Current Western Australian ‘C’ Class Driver’s Licence (Manual) or higher
• Current HVIA certificate, HLTCPR201A Perform CPR
• Current Confined Space and Working at Heights certificate
• High Risk Work Licences preferred – LF, WP

What we offer:

• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• Full domestic relocation assistance provided, including company housing provided in all residential towns, with subsidised living expenses including rent and utilities
• 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
• Extensive salary sacrifice and salary packaging options
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Assistance with boarding costs for students in primary, secondary or post-secondary education
• Company provided insurance cover
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave, cultural leave)
• To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them

Where you’ll be working

Located 80 kilometres southwest of Tom Price, Paraburdoo rests on the traditional lands of the Yinhawangka people. The town is surrounded by some of Western Australia’s most stunning landscapes and is renowned for its natural beauty, diverse wildlife, and close proximity to Karijini National Park.

Paraburdoo is a gateway to adventure and exploration, and the town is proud of its reputation as a safe, welcoming community and an ideal place for young families to live and thrive.

Paraburdoo offers a wide range of local amenities and leisure facilities, including a domestic airport, hospital, community centre, childcare centre, primary school, parks, and various sporting venues.

The Paraburdoo Sports, Fitness and Community Complex features state-of-the-art facilities such as an Olympic-size swimming pool, indoor basketball court, and a fully equipped gym. Recent upgrades have expanded the camp facilities to 762 rooms.

With the opening of the Western Range at Paraburdoo Operations, the site now has the capacity to produce up to 25 million tonnes of iron ore annually supporting the longevity of the Paraburdoo mining hub for up to 20 years.

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.