Tradesperson Mechanical

Job Number:
69043-332481

Work type:
Permanent - Full Time

**Location**:
Picton Junction

Categories:
Trades

**About the role**:
As a Mechanical Tradesperson, you'll play a crucial role in maintaining and repairing locomotives, rail cars, wagons, plant, and infrastructure to ensure they meet safety and reliability standards. Your efforts will help keep freight services running smoothly by:

- Performing routine corrective maintenance and fault repairs on rollingstock.
- Reporting actual work completed versus scheduled tasks.
- Adhering to technical and operational specifications for all work performed.
- Keeping detailed records of asset condition, maintenance programs, and costs.
- Advancing work procedures and practices to drive continuous quality improvement.
- Repairing and maintaining large diesel-electric locomotives and related equipment.
- Providing support to other WA maintenance depots as per EA agreement.

**About You**:

- Strong dedication to safety.
- Current unrestricted WA driver’s license.
- Mechanical Trade Certificate or equivalent qualification.
- Proven ability to interpret technical instructions and drawings.
- Extensive knowledge of equipment functions, defects, and fault-finding.
- Experience with the repair, maintenance, and overhaul of locomotives or heavy industrial plant is preferred, but not essential.
- Experience with Cummins, EMD, GE, GM industrial/power generation repairs and diagnostics is highly regarded.

**What we offer you**:
At Aurizon, we support the development and growth of our employees. With a national portfolio of operations, we offer long-term and exciting career opportunities.

Some of our benefits include:

- Development and growth opportunities.
- Access to mentoring and development programs.
- Discounts on selected health insurance funds, personal travel, gyms, vehicles and retail brands.
- Parental leave program and super booster.

**About Aurizon.**

Aurizon is Australia’s largest rail freight operator and a top 100 ASX company. Each year, we deliver more than 250 million tonnes of Australian commodities right across the country. Aurizon is crucial to the Australian economy, connecting miners, primary producers and industry with international and domestic markets.

**Look to Aurizon for a diverse and collaborative culture.**

At Aurizon, we are proud of our diverse, collaborative, creative and high-performance culture. We celebrate the contribution of every employee and provide opportunities for career development in a dynamic, caring, and inclusive work environment.

**For more information about this vacancy 69043 please contact Jason McBride on 08 9212 2568.**

**Advertised**: 15 Nov 2024 W. Australia Standard Time
**Applications close**: 29 Nov 2024 W. Australia Standard Time