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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

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 rack scales to support the efficient operation of the railway.

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.

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 licenc