Engineer: Plant

Rio Tinto; Richards Bay; On-site; ZAR 800,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Safety-focused environment

Health and pension programs

Wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Rio Tinto in Richards Bay, South Africa, is seeking a Plant Engineer (GCC) to provide total maintenance support, shutdown and planning services to designated plants, ensuring maximum asset availability and legal compliance. The role emphasizes safety leadership and driving reliability across operations in Richards Bay.

The successful candidate will hold a Tertiary Diploma or Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a GCC: Mines and Works certificate, with 5+ years post-GCC experience in mining or

Qualifications

• Mechanical Engineering degree or diploma held.
• GCC: Mines and Works certification is essential.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve safety, health and environmental standards and practices.
• Approve and enforce engineering/process operating standards for legal compliance under Mine Health & Safety Act and company policies.
• Develop and apply maintenance strategies to ensure optimal plant equipment performance.
• Coordinate resources and safety planning for major and monthly shutdowns, ensuring spare parts availability.
• Assess shutdown plans to minimize losses while preserving equipment integrity.
• Oversee execution of maintenance-related shutdown work with stakeholders for shortest duration, safe practices and quality.
• Supervise and guide designated staff and enforce performance standards.
• Prepare and control budgets by forecasting costs and tracking expenditures.

Education

Tertiary Diploma or Degree in Mechanical Engineering

GCC Mines and Works certification

Job description

• Opportunity to work for global company
• Our culture is inclusive, exciting and performance-driven
• Role based in Richards Bay
• I Band

About the role

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.

We are looking for a Plant Engineer (GCC) to provide total maintenance support, shutdown and planning services to designated plants and processes in order to ensure optimum asset availability and legal compliance.

Leading on the frontline is one of the most important jobs in our business and comes with a huge amount of responsibility. We need you to motivate, inspire and keep your people safe and well.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain and improve safety, health and environmental standards and practices
• Approve and enforce engineering / process operating standards for legal compliance in accordance with the Mine Health & Safety Act and company policies & procedures and undertake total legal accountability for operational equipment
• Develop, establish and apply the maintenance strategy to ensure optimal plant equipment performance, and implement asset performance measures in this regard.
• Manage the planning and execution of major and recurring monthly shutdowns by coordinating appropriate resources, conducting safety planning, and ensuring availability of spares within scheduled timeframes
• Assess the content of shutdown plans in order to reduce unfavourable losses, without sacrificing equipment reliability and intrinsic value and integrity
• Manage the execution of planned maintenance-related shutdown work in close co-operation with the relevant stakeholders in order to achieve the shortest job duration, safe working practices and high quality of maintenance work
• Supervise and control the activities, standards of performance and behaviour of designated support staff and subordinates
• Prepare and control the section and maintenance budgets by forecasting operating costs and monitoring expenditure of normal and abnormal costs on a monthly basis

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Tertiary Diploma or Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Government Certificate of Competency (GCC): Mines and Works is essential
• 5 years or more post GCC experience in mining / smelting environment
• Exposure to projects, reliability engineering and conveyors, crushing and screening equipment will be an advantage
• A valid South African Driver’s License

What we offer

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs, pension and savings plans
• Wellbeing benefits

Where you’ll be working

Richards Bay Minerals (RBM) is a world leader in heavy mineral sands extraction and refining and South Africa’s largest mineral sands producer. RBM produces predominantly ilmenite, rutile and zircon – materials used in everything from paint to smartphones to sunscreen.

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

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 and/ or anything else that makes us different.
At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Women, the LGBTQ+ communities, people with disabilities (PWD) and people from different cultural backgrounds.
We acknowledge that all people are different and believe that our differences are our strength. The diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our teams enhance our way of working and our ability to achieve success together