Fixed Plant Operator - Pannawonica

Excited to grow your career?

We value our talented workforce, and whenever possible strive to help our employees grow professionally. If you think this position is right for you, we encourage you to speak to your Leader and go ahead and apply!

Our people make all the difference in our success.

• We’re committed to Finding Better Ways™ and that starts with creating a safe, inclusive, and empowering environment for everyone.
• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
• Balanced Work-Life Rhythm: Our lifestyle-friendly roster provides a harmonious balance between career and home life ensuring you spend more time with your loved ones and doing the things outside of work, that matter most to you.
• FIFO and residential opportunities available

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 Fixed Plant Operators, to operate equipment including monitoring and inspections in a safe and efficient manner.

This is a great opportunity for experienced, driven and safety focused Fixed Plant Operators to join Rio on a permanent full-time basis with a family friendly 8:6 roster.

Reporting to the Supervisor Plant Operations and working in a challenging and exciting environment within Fixed Plant – Operations you will be:

• Operate fixed plant assets, carry out routine inspections and conduct manual handling associated with basic maintenance and inspection of the plant
• Conduct routine activities to ensure the safe and reliable operation of assets, including undertaking basic fault find and diagnosis
• Work in the field, monitoring equipment, cleaning, hosing and identifying continuous improvement opportunities
• Operate mobile plant equipment as required by your leader
• Actively foster and communicate a positive safety culture to promote safety awareness and compliance, encouraging prioritisation of safety in all activities and operations
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by identifying, evaluating and implementing improvement opportunities utilising a range of Rio Tinto best practices

About you

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Demonstrated experience operating fixed plant
• Experience operating mobile plant equipment (desirable)
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise multiple tasks
• Ability to work safely and cooperatively in a small team, demonstrating flexibility to business requirements
• Previous mining experience working in the field, monitoring equipment and operating fixed plant assets.

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

Where you’ll be working

Pannawonica - Located in the scenic Pilbara region and close to the major centre of Karratha, this vibrant town offers a sought-after lifestyle and affordable living in comfortable subsidised housing. 

This is a great opportunity for you and your family to contribute to a unique community and enjoy a wide range of seasonal outdoor activities; allowing you to find the perfect balance between leisure and work. 

The town of Pannawonica is supported by a resident doctor, an excellent primary school with options to undertake secondary school studies in a supervised distance education program, supermarket, and a local community gym and youth centre.

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 LGBTI+ 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.