SPECIALIST ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

• Be part of a committed team that is safety driven, and values diversity and inclusion
• Permanent, full-time position which comes with a huge range of additional benefits
• Great opportunity to progress your skills with a global company

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.
We are looking for a Specialist Electrical Engineer to join our Bell Bay Aluminium Smelter to provide stewardship and technical engineering guidance and governance for the on-site electrical engineering team. This is an exciting, newly created role within the Asset Management team, and will enable our people to be their best and continually innovate and reflect on the way our work is done.
This role offers an exceptional opportunity for a dynamic problem solver with excellent influencing skills to contribute to our Asset Management engineering efficiency improvements and upgrades.
We are an open, connected international team of technical professionals using some of the most exciting data and tools on the planet. We are the world leader in automation and smart mining.
We have technical development programmes that are industry-leading and recognise the unique nature of your role. These provide opportunities to grow your career through a dedicated technical path while being rewarded for your unique skills.

Reporting to the Superintendent Planning and Engineering you will:

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of electrical engineers and reliability officers on site to achieve their goals
• Drive improvements for both fixed and mobile plant assets on site through both operational and capital planning processes
• Provide expert electrical and instrumentation engineering support to meet operational needs, bringing diverse perspectives to problem-solving
• Ensure asset management best practices are safely utilised to achieve required performance for assets site wide
• Guide the development, review process and governance of asset whole of life plans and tactics for onsite process and statutory assets to ensure compliance and production targets are met
• Direct and oversee asset non-performance and failure investigations to ensure root causes are identified and addressed
• Promote efforts to ensure compliance with Rio Tinto electrical safety standards, industry regulations, and standards, ensuring quality requirements across the site, with a primary focus on low and extra low voltage electrical assets
• Provide expert electrical and instrumentation engineering support to meet operational needs, bringing diverse perspectives to problem-solving