Systems Technician

• Global mining organisation with an exceptional safety culture
• Our friendly teams look after each other because your safety and wellbeing are always our priority
• 8:6 Roster to Tom Price

About the role

Reporting into the Inland Signals Superintendent, This role is accountable and responsible for the maintenance of rail asset protection, condition monitoring equipment and track scales to support the efficient operation of the railway.

Key Accountabilities

• Ensure all work is conducted in compliance with relevant legislative requirements, Rio Tinto standards, policies, and procedures.
• Actively promote a positive safety culture, fostering safety awareness and compliance across the team.
• Maintain wayside & asset protection systems in alignment with the weekly maintenance schedule
• Perform fault finding and rectification of systems as required,
• Adhere to work management processes, including work orders via SAP.
• Raise quality notifications and ensure comprehensive history capture for all maintenance activities.
• Identify, evaluate, and implement improvement opportunities using Rio Tinto's best practices and actively participate in improvement projects, proposing innovative solutions to maintenance processes.
• Collaborate with other functions and stakeholders
• Apply monitoring, sampling, and testing techniques to gather asset health data and provide low-level assessments on asset condition
• Communicate the outcomes of monitoring data analysis and prepare reports
• Perform basic interpretation of data to identify potential asset defects
• Manage vendor relationships both on and off-site
• Provide supervision to contractors as required for sites visits
• Assist with equipment failure investigations and mitigation strategies

What you'll bring

Essential criteria for the role include:

• Sound understanding of the railway asset protection systems & principles of operation as well as the associated railway safeworking procedures
• Strong background in heavy haul rail
• Proven experience in asset protection and monitoring systems
• Proven experience in IT/OC systems support
• Proficient in SAP and workflow management processes
• Proficiency with monitoring and diagnostic tools to support predictive maintenance activities
• A current 'C' class driver's licence

Preferred criteria for the role include:

• Relevant trade qualification in the field of Electronics or Communications or equivalent.
• Previous experience with maintaining wayside asset protection equipment
• UNIX/LINUX operating system experience
• Knowledge of radio/data communication systems
• Knowledge of TCP/IP communications systems
• MS office suite experience
• Knowledge of Sandvik, Downer and Meridian track scales is highly desirable.

What we offer

Be recognized 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

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own a world-class, integrated network of 17 mines, four independent port terminals, a rail network spanning nearly 2,000 kilometres and related infrastructure – all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand. We are one of the world's leading producers and exporters of iron ore.

Tom Price is located in the central Pilbara, west of Karijini National Park and is our original Pilbara mine, currently employing residential and fly in fly out employees. It is known as one of the most attractive towns in the Pilbara with a high school, two primary schools a hospital and a high standard of recreational facilities.

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.

Every Voice Matters

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.