Diesel Fitters

4 weeks ago

Weipa Airport, Australia RioTinto Full time

  • Residential Role with full relocation provided – live in Weipa, a beautiful coastal community in Far North Queensland and upgrade your lifestyle with incredible outdoor adventures and water-based activities  

  • New lifestyle roster provides the perfect balance, giving you more time for the things that are important in your life and to your family and community

 About the role 

We are looking for experienced Heavy Mobile Equipment Diesel Fitters to join our friendly and high performing Heavy Equipment Maintenance team based at either Andoom or our newest operation Amrun. You’ll maintain the site’s heavy mobile equipment and ancillary fleet to ensure this critical equipment is available to meet operational requirements.

You’ll live in the idyllic coastal town of Weipa, with full relocation provided, working across our Northern and Southern Operations.  We have options to suit your lifestyle and goals, at East Weipa or Andoom (Northern Operations) you’ll be home after each shift as you’ll be working a 4,5,5 day/night lifestyle roster and for roles based at Amrun (Southern Operations) you’ll be working our new lifestyle roster; 7 days on, 7 days off, 7 nights on, 7 days off and you will stay at our newly built camp during shift and commute back to Weipa on days off, with an additional allowance to compensate time away from home. 

What you’ll bring 

  • A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team  

  • Respect for others and an all-inclusive mindset

  • A C class drivers’ license  

  • Relevant HME Diesel Fitter qualification  

  • Experience in a workshop environment

  • The ability to communicate effectively within a team environment  

  • The ability to be flexible within the role and adapt to a changing environment 

What we offer 

  • Full relocation provided to Far North Queensland from elsewhere in Australia

  • Weipa accommodation benefit 

  • Remote area allowance 

  • Remote area holiday travel assistance 

  • 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 

Our Weipa Operations includes three bauxite mines, processing facilities, ship loaders, an export wharf, two ports, power stations, a rail network and ferry terminals. Located on the Western Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, each year the operation produces more than 35 million tons of bauxite. 

Our operations are supported by a 1,900-strong workforce—including 26 per cent who are women and 25 per cent Indigenous employees. Activities include mine operations, maintenance, asset management, ports, cultural heritage management, and processing facility management. 

The development of our new mine, Amrun, which was completed in 2018, will extend the life of our Weipa bauxite operations by decades to come and significantly build on our 55-year history on the Western Cape. 

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.

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