Job title: Engineer – Automation
Company: Rio Tinto
Job description: Automation Engineer
- Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities
- Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits including medical benefits and share ownership plan
- Flexible, family friendly working rosters – either a 9 day fortnight or 4.5 days working week.
- Residential permanent role based in Gladstone, QLD
About the roleFinding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.We are looking for an Automation Engineer to support and improve automation and control systems across site.This role is a great opportunity to develop your skills and experience whilst fostering a collaborative team culture on site.Reporting to the Automation Lead and working in a challenging and exciting environment you will be:
- Developing and improving automation, including interfaces between the control and SCADA/HMI layers, and information systems such as databases, historians, analysis tools and manufacturing execution systems.
- Supporting and developing the site SCADA fleet and equipment HMIs.
- Conducting and managing business sustaining work such as obsolete control system hardware replacement or software conversion and upgrades
- Providing technical advice and assistance to site maintenance, engineering, project and operational teams
- Maintenance and installation of Rockwell Automation and Honeywell applications in the OT field.
- Maintenance of windows server applications such as serving patching in the OT environment
- Providing second level breakdown support, including after-hours call out as required to support maintenance and operations teams.
- Improving existing process and equipment control systems to increase efficiency.
- Assisting with FAT and SAT of control systems and instrumentation
- Mentoring of Graduate Engineers
- Completing in field work such as troubleshooting faults, calibration of equipment, programming of devices
What you’ll bring
- A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
- Bachelor’s degree/ Advanced Diploma in electrical, mechatronic or Automation Engineering or Trade qualified Electrician with relevant industry experience.
- Experience in a similar role in a heavy industry environment
- Experience in PLC and SCADA programming. Rockwell Automation and Honeywell experience desirable.
- Demonstrated experience in being able to complete work in the field.
- Self-driven with the ability to work unsupervised.
- Demonstrated application development experience using VBA, Python, SQL and SQL Server, SQL Server Reporting Services and Power BI is desirable.
- Networking and industrial protocol experience and fault-finding skills.
- Understanding of Functional Safety
- Class C Drivers Licence
What We OfferThis role can be a 9 day fortnight or a 4.5 days working week (M-F dayshift only).
- A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
- A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
- Salary package range between $130,000 – $150,000
- 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
About Rio TintoRio 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 almost 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 and meet opportunities.Where you will be workingOpened in 1982, Boyne Smelters Limited is Australia’s second largest aluminium smelter with a 1,000-person strong workforce. Located approximately 20 kilometres 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.Along with Yarwun Operations and Queensland Alumina Limited, BSL supports the local community in a wide range of initiatives through Here for GladstoneEvery Voice MattersAt 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.Applications close on Tuesday 2nd April 2024 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).
Expected salary: $130000 – 150000 per year
Location: Gladstone, QLD
Job date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:33:51 GMT
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