Refractory Bricklayers

Bricklayers – Boyne Smelter

• Make the move to industrial bricklaying, interesting projects
• Permanent full time opportunity to join Boyne Smelters
• Balanced Work-Life Rhythm: Our family 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. 

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a number of trade qualified Bricklayers to support our cell reconstruction teams to the highest possible safety and quality standards.

This role is a great opportunity for a tradesperson who has a high level of pride in their work and is passionate about safety and embrace the concept of improving every shift via regular, open and respectful conversations. Working a day shift roster and reporting to the a Crew Leader or Specialist, you will be:

• Performing bricklaying and installation of pre-built refractory brick walls within the Cell Reconstruction team effectively and safely.
• Undertaking placement/screeding of castable materials and bricklaying within a hot and physical environment.
• Brick stacking and forklift operation
• Identifying and supporting defect eliminations and providing feedback on asset performance and improvement opportunities.
• Identifying safety and process concerns and potential solutions to eliminate these risks.

What you’ll bring

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• Bricklayer trade qualification with a passion for your trade, ability to work effectively within a team and an understanding of working in a project environment.
• Refractory bricklaying experience highly regarded as is recent heavy industry experience and extensive bricklaying experience in other industries
• Experience in confined space and working at heights with a demonstrated commitment to safety.

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
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers. 

For 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers – generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress. 

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world and explore the universe. Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life. 

Where you’ll be working

Rio Tinto is a global leader in aluminium, one of the world’s most widely used metals.

Active in the sector for more than 110 years, today we operate large-scale, high-quality bauxite mines and alumina refineries, and have the world’s most modern and competitive aluminium smelter portfolio.

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.

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.

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