Officer Isolation Fixed Plant

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

• Flexibility for the lifestyle you want on a 8 days on, 6 off roster
• FIFO from Perth and Busselton
• Opportunities and Support to learn and grow your career

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 Officer Isolation to join our Hope Downs 4 operations team. You will support the technical, compliance and process coordinating activities of the Supervisor Fixed Plant. Every day our leaders grow, while our rosters are designed to help you live the lifestyle that is right for you and your family. Reporting to the Supervisor Plant Shutdowns, you will

• Adhere to all Rio Tinto standards, policies and procedures
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by identifying, evaluating and implementing improvement opportunities utilising arange of Rio Tinto best practices
• Provide appropriate 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 resourced and sequenced to minimise delays and impact to both the shut duration and work front interfaces
• Manage the sites task isolation database and system including the approval and review of task isolation procedures
• Adhere to the Shutdown Procedure in terms of isolation requirements for shutdown work

What You’ll Bring

• 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, provide guidance on task isolations, and assist others as required.
• 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 applications, and (preferably) SAP/Prometheus.

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

We are committed to elevating Indigenous voices and increasing cultural knowledge in our business. Diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together. To help you on your journey with us, you’ll also have access to

• Specialist Indigenous Support Advisors are always there for our Indigenous employees and available to support through any aspect of your employment
• Dedicated Indigenous Talent Programme for our Operators and Tradespersons and entry level operational roles. This programme is designed to create long term sustainable careers for our Indigenous Employees to grow into leadership or technical pathways to ensure you have every opportunity to grow your career.

Indigenous leadership programmes across some professional and operational roles to ensure that we are developing Indigenous Leaders.

Where you will be working

Located 50km north-west of Newman, Hope Downs 4 is a joint venture managed and operated by Rio Tinto, working in conjunction with nearby site Hope Downs 1. Hope Downs 4 provides excellent career growth and opportunities and the village provides excellent facilities for its fly-in fly-out workers.

Ready to experience something unique? Come work with us.

Applications close on the 19th of November 2026 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date) #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 to dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.