Specialist Buckets/Trays/Structures

Rio Tinto; Western Australia; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Annual incentive program

Private health insurance

Share ownership plan

Insurance cover

Salary packaging options

Career development & education support

Family health and wellbeing support

Leave entitlement

Employee discounts

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Rio Tinto is seeking a Specialist Buckets/Trays/Structures to enhance the performance and reliability of the Heavy Mobile Equipment fleet. You will drive asset strategies, provide engineering oversight and collaborate with site teams and OEMs to implement fleet-wide improvements.

The role focuses on defect elimination, continuous improvement and rapid dissemination of best practices across the business, with travel to sites as required from our Perth Operations Centre.

Qualifications

• Safety commitment and team safety
• Experience supporting Heavy Mobile Equipment including buckets, trays and structural components
• Experience developing asset/maintenance strategies and applying defect elimination and continuous improvement
• Experience leading RCAs and complex technical investigations in asset-intensive environments

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance Whole of Life strategies and maintenance tactics for HME
• Evaluate and optimise fleet maintenance using performance data (uptime, MTBF)
• Lead maintenance, defect elimination and continuous improvement to boost fleet reliability
• Own bucket and tray selection in collaboration with site engineering teams
• Act as technical SME and liaison between Rio Tinto Iron Ore, Group Technical and OEMs
• Lead Root Cause Analyses and investigations and review vendor bulletins
• Coordinate engineering support for fleet improvements and equipment upgrades
• Provide guidance to regional reliability and maintenance teams for rapid best-practice replication

Skills

Heavy Mobile Equipment

Asset maintenance strategies

Root Cause Analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical oversight

Tools

Data analysis tools

OEM engagement

Job description

• Influence the performance and reliability of Heavy Mobile Equipment across Rio Tinto Iron Ore operations
• Shape asset strategies and technical improvements for buckets, trays and structural systems
• Operation Centre based opportunity with ad-hoc site travel required

• Influence the performance and reliability of Heavy Mobile Equipment across Rio Tinto Iron Ore operations
• Shape asset strategies and technical improvements for buckets, trays and structural systems
• Operation Centre based opportunity with ad-hoc site travel required

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 a Specialist Buckets/Trays/Structures to enhance the performance and reliability of the Heavy Mobile Equipment (HME) fleet through asset strategy, engineering support and technical oversight.

In this role, you’ll influence fleet performance through defect elimination, continuous improvement and effective collaboration with site engineering teams, technical specialists and equipment manufacturers. This is an opportunity to apply your technical expertise to complex fleet-wide challenges and help replicate better solutions across the business.

What You’ll Be Doing

Reporting to the Principal Heavy Mobile Equipment and working in a collaborative, technically focused environment within Operations, you will be

• Develop and enhance Whole of Life (WOL) strategies and maintenance tactics for Heavy Mobile Equipment.
• Evaluate and optimise fleet maintenance and WOL strategies using performance data, including uptime and Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF).
• Lead maintenance, defect elimination and continuous improvement strategies that improve fleet reliability and performance.
• Own bucket and tray selection in collaboration with site engineering teams.
• Act as the technical subject matter expert and conduit between Rio Tinto Iron Ore, Group Technical, Rio Tinto Projects and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs).
• Lead and support Root Cause Analyses (RCAs), failure investigations and reviews of vendor technical bulletins.
• Coordinate engineering support for the implementation of fleet improvements and equipment upgrades.
• Provide technical guidance to regional reliability and maintenance engineering teams and enable the rapid replication of effective practices across the business.

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, we encourage you to submit an application.

Required for Success

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
• Demonstrated engineering experience supporting Heavy Mobile Equipment, including buckets, trays and structural components.
• Demonstrated experience developing asset or maintenance strategies and applying defect elimination and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Experience leading Root Cause Analyses, failure investigations and complex technical problem solving in a mining, heavy industrial or comparable asset-intensive environment.

Helpful for Success

• Experience working with Original Equipment Manufacturers and cross-functional engineering, maintenance or operational teams.
• Experience providing clear technical guidance and influencing outcomes across geographically dispersed teams.

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, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

Where you’ll be working

Our integrated iron ore network is supported by the Perth Operations Centre, a state‑of‑the‑art facility that enables autonomous trucks, trains and drills across mines, ports and rail systems to be operated from a single location. The centre provides real‑time visibility across the value chain and supports optimisation of mining, maintenance and logistics activities across the Pilbara.

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 meeting 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 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 we different.