Reliability Engineer- Electrical at Rio Tinto

About The Role
We are looking for a Reliability Engineer Electrical to provide professional maintenance engineering service and technical expertise to RBM in order to ensure equipment reliability through key processes (RCM, RCA, etc) and other reliability methodologies.

Reporting to the Manager Engineering Services and working in a collaborative community within the Engineering Services department, you will be

• Implement the Rio Tinto Asset Management strategy and conduct a critical maintenance performance analysis to ensure optimal efficiency and longer & more profitable equipment lifecycles.
• Assess the process of failure pattern analysis and ensure that maintenance strategies are updated in order to improve availability and reliability, while trying to reduce lifecycle costs.
• Analyse asset reliability and produce forecasts & make recommendations for equipment and technology improvements, design changes or strategy amendments.
• Investigate and assess the desirability and feasibility of proposed asset modifications and approve as required.
• Coordinate the Rio Tinto Critical Risk Assessment process with regard to plant and mining equipment.
• Develop and participate in Continuous Improvement Projects and monitor execution as required.
• Forecast sustainability projects for the 5-year plan.
• Act as a mentor for external companies via auditing and advisory functions.
• Manage and direct the process of defect root cause analysis for relevant equipment types to ensure efficient preventative maintenance as the need arises.
• Manage standards, specifications and work procedures as required.
• Compile new and review current maintenance strategies for specific equipment types and ensure that these are modelled to assess the impact and then thoroughly documented.
• Assist in ensuring that standard jobs (preventative, corrective and design-out) are compiled by the Plant Maintenance Engineer according to the maintenance strategy and provide technical skills regarding root cause analysis.

What You’ll Bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team (standard for all job adverts)
• Tech / BSC Degree in Electrical Engineering
• EB License
• At-least 5-10 years appropriate engineering, plant and equipment experience, with sound exposure to failure analysis and defect elimination
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in asset management and reliability engineering
• Advanced computer literacy (Integrated Information Systems, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Projects, SAP).
• Well-developed interpersonal and people management skills.
• Sound judgement, analytical thinking and decision-making skills.
• Well-developed negotiation and facilitation skills.