Officer – Control Room
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Permanent opportunity
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Continuous rotating day and night roster
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Coastal lifestyle - Gladstone
About the role
Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.
We are looking for a Control Room Officer to play an essential part in the control of the refinery. The primary purpose of the Control Room Officer is to manage the operation of the Refinery to ensure that safety, environmental, costs, operational and production targets are met.
This is a great opportunity for an excellent communicator to help manage the operation of the Refinery to ensure that safety, environmental, costs, operational and production targets are met.
We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.
Reporting to the Shift Controller and working in an exciting environment within the Control Room team, you will be:
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Continually monitoring process parameters and alarms to ensure stable, efficient operations and act as necessary to ensure process parameters remain within the defined limits
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Operate the Refinery to in order to meet the Production plan, utilising the resources available in consultation with the Shift Controller and the Operations Team
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Ensure that proactive actions are carried out in the control room and the field to ensure personnel safety, equipment integrity, product quality are always maintained
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Plan and conduct operational activities including start-up, monitoring and shut down of equipment according to the documented authorised procedures
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Liaise with Shift Controller, Operations and Process Teams regarding operating plans, strategies, process upset information and process parameter set points.
What you’ll bring
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A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
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Experience as a Control Room Operator with the Bayer process within the Alumina industry.
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Previous experience in the operation of DCS/Honeywell operating systems
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Good communication skills with the ability to work constructively across multiple teams and functions to resolve problems.
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Demonstrated problem solving skills, technical aptitude and be forthcoming about raising and challenging issues
What we offer
Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.
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A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
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A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
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A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
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Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
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Attractive share ownership plan
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Company provided insurance cover
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Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
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Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
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Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
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Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
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Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
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Possible domestic relocation assistance
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 and meet opportunities.
Where you’ll be working
Located in Central Queensland, approximately 10km north-west of Gladstone, Yarwun alumina refinery commenced operations in 2004. Processing bauxite from our mines in Weipa and Gove, Yarwun produces more than three million tonnes of smelter grade alumina annually.
As one of the largest industries in the Gladstone region, Yarwun employs over 700 people and has a large contractor workforce.
With a focus on safely improving our process every day, the team at Yarwun challenge themselves to use existing and emerging technology to support our 24 hour operation.
Yarwun is a proud member of the Gladstone community, and along with Boyne Smelters Limited and Queensland Alumina Limited, support community investments that improve the liveability of the Gladstone region through the Here for Gladstone community fund.
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.
Applications close on Thursday the 15th August 2024 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)
