Maintenance Mechanical Fitters - Boyne Smelter

• The perfect balance, our rosters gives you more time for the things that are important in your life and to your family and community.

• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits

• Full Domestic relocation offered, from anywhere within Australia

About the Role

Finding better ways™ to provide the materials the world needs.

Are you looking to start 2026 the right way, and grow your career with one of Australias biggest names in the Mining Industry?

We currently have numerous fulltime permanent opportunities for Maintenance Mechanical Fitters to join our high performing teams across our Boyne Smelter, Gladstone Operations.

Whether you’re new to your trade or an experienced professional, and whatever industry you have exposure to, we have opportunities that will provide interesting work and growth opportunities for everyone.

Your experience, career goals and lifestyle preferences will help guide which team you will join, including but not limited to:

• Carbon Maintenance Team;

• Reduction line Maintenance Team;

• Services Maintenance Team;

• Power Supply Team;

• or our General Maintenance Team.

At Boyne Smelter, we are passionate about safety, we look out for each other and work together to find better ways to do things. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your development and will help you achieve your career goals.

Reporting to the Maintenance Team Leader for your team, your role may involve:

• Maintaining and replacing mechanical equipment

• Execution of planned and unplanned breakdown maintenance

• Troubleshooting, calibrating, repair and service of fixed plant assets

• Working at heights activities

• Working autonomously, being reliable and positively contributing to the maintenance team, understanding the requirement to maintain assets in a safe and reliable condition

• Identifying and implementing improvement initiatives which may involve working with many different disciplines within the organisation

• Promoting and identifying HSE opportunities to improve equipment, processes and behaviours

• Identifying defects / support defect elimination process

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• Respect for others and an all-inclusive mindset

• Valid C Class drivers licence

• An Australian 'A' grade Electrical licence

• Instrumentation Certificate advantageous

• Working at Heights/EWP desirable

• Experienced in planned maintenance including conveyors, PLC, Instrumentation and other plant equipment

• Proven history of fault finding and repairs on various electrical equipment

• Proven maintenance experience working in heavy/industrial industry

If you are excited about the role and think you have what it takes but your experience doesn't align 100% we still want to hear from you. 

We are committed to promoting diversity within Rio Tinto and as a special measure to we strongly encourage women to apply.

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.

• Full relocation provided to Gladstone, Queensland from elsewhere in Australia
• 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, cultural leave)
• To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them
• Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more

Where you’ll be working

Boyne Smelters Limited is Australia’s second largest aluminium smelter with a 1,000-person strong workforce. Located approximately 20km south east of Gladstone at Boyne Island on the Central Queensland coast, BSL produces around 500,000 tonnes of aluminium per annum. 

Activities at BSL include manufacturing carbon anodes in the carbon plant, aluminium production (smelting) in reduction lines, and casting of molten material into aluminium products ready to ship. The smelter is connected via a conveyor belt to the Queensland Alumina Limited refinery for the supply of alumina.

BSL is committed to protecting the environment and ensuring safe work practices where people feel safe at work and care for each other.

#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 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.