Isolation Officer, Fixed Plant — FIFO 8/6 Roster

Rio Tinto; Newman; Remote; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary reflective of skills and 8

Annual incentive program

Comprehensive medical benefits incl. i

Share ownership plan

Company provided insurance cover

Extensive salary sacrifice options

Career development & education support

Family-friendly health and wellbeing

Leave for life events

Employee discounts

Job summary

Rio Tinto’s Hope Downs 4 operations are seeking an Officer Isolation to support the Supervisor Fixed Plant and Shutdown teams. FIFO from Perth/Busselton on an 8/6 roster, you will drive isolation planning, permit management, and continuous safety improvements.

You will collaborate with internal stakeholders, coach teams, and ensure safe isolations across P&IDs, permits and risk controls, contributing to reliable plant shutdowns.

Qualifications

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
• A Current Western Australian C Class Driver's Licence (Manual).
• Liaise with internal stakeholders to ensure equipment isolations are conducted safely.
• Perform permit management duties, including Permit Officer, Isolation Officer, and Permit Administrator functions.
• Understanding of isolations, P&IDs, work permit processes, legislation, and risk assessment.
• Experience with electronic permitting systems (preferred, not essential).
• Familiarity with Integrated Management Systems (IMS), Microsoft Office apps, and SAP/Prometheus.

Responsibilities

• Adhere to all Rio Tinto standards, policies and procedures.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by identifying and implementing improvement opportunities.
• Provide coaching, mentoring and technical support to the Fixed Plant Maintenance and Shutdown teams.
• From the Shutdown scope, develop a shutdown isolation permit plan and schedule effectively to minimise delays and impact to both the shutdown duration and work interfaces.
• Manage the sites task isolation database and system including approval and review of task isolation procedures.
• Adhere to the Shutdown Procedure in terms of isolation requirements for shutdown work.

Skills

Safety focus

Stakeholder liaison

Permits management

Isolations knowledge

P&IDs

Risk assessment

Electronic permits

Tools

SAP

Prometheus

Job description

Rio Tinto’s Hope Downs 4 operations are seeking an Officer Isolation to support the Supervisor Fixed Plant and Shutdown teams. FIFO from Perth/Busselton on an 8/6 roster, you will drive isolation planning, permit management, and continuous safety improvements.

You will collaborate with internal stakeholders, coach teams, and ensure safe isolations across P&IDs, permits and risk controls, contributing to reliable plant shutdowns.