Advisor Electrical – FIFO to Mongolia

Advisor Electrical – FIFO to Mongolia

• Excellent opportunity to be part of a world biggest copper-gold mine.
• Great exposure and development opportunities within the Owner’s team
• Collaborative and high performing environment at an exciting location

About the role

We are looking for an Advisor Electrical – Mine Maintenance to join our diverse team. This is a key role within the Owner’s team with the responsibility for administering the systematic and coordinated activities and practices through which an organisation optimally and sustainably manages its assets and asset systems, their associated performance, risks, and expenditures over their life cycles for the purpose of achieving its organisational strategic plan.

The purpose of this role is to provide frontline leadership as leading, planning, managing, and advising on effective implementation and performance of functional unit operation in line with the company policies and procedures to achieve the department's objectives and targeted plan.

Working 4 weeks on/ 2 weeks off international FIFO and arrangement and reporting to Electrical Superintendent, you will be responsible for following:

• Daily based task assignment and safety supervision
• Monitors work performance and safety implementation
• Troubleshooting and maintenance on Loading Units (CAT7495, CAT6060, PV351E)
• Advise and supervise team with safe working methods on planned and unplanned maintenance
• Reports and analyzes equipment's daily breakdowns and maintaining services to the Superintendent,Mine Maintenance,
• Supports weekly maintenance scheduling and planning
• Provides long term maintenance plan for the equipment to improve reliabilities
• Monitors and provides equipment parts' reliabilities and cooperate with planning team
• Monitors and improves equipment's utilization to cooperate with Mine Operation
• Advise and train the local employees for CAT7495 IGBT Sibas, WINCC software and Siemens PLC

What you’ll bring

• 5+ years relevant working experience
• CAT7495 Electric Rope Shovel Advanced Experience
• Siemens IGBT Sibas 32 drive and control
• Siemens Simantic, Sibas Monitor and WINCC software experience.
• Siemens PLC experience
• CAT6060Hydraulic Shovel
• DH3 and older TH340 version experience
• Running RCS4

Professional background

Post-secondary or equivalent education obtained through degrees, certificates (Electrical Trade Qualifications, High Voltage Qualifications (Desirable but not essential), Instrumentation experience & PLC Advanced Training/Certification (desirable)).

It will also be beneficial if you have:

Maintenance Service, Engineering or relevant discipline is preferable. (General Soft starter control and start style)

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority,
• International visa assistance,
• Competitive package including annual incentive and living allowance,
• Career development to further your ambitions,
• Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs,
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program,
• Employee Assistance Program,
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matter, and
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/ annual, paid parental, sick leave).

About us

Joining the Rio Tinto Oyu Tolgoi Operation team is a great opportunity to be part of one of the most exciting developments in copper and gold mining for several decades. The mine contains reserves and resources that make it one of the world’s largest copper-gold deposits.

This mega project is expected to be a major contributor to Mongolia’s development. As part of the Rio Tinto Oyu Tolgoi Operation team, you have the ability to contribute to something significant and learn and develop both personally and professionally. We offer a collaborative, high performing environment where success is achieved by working together.

Discover more about Mongolia and Oyu Tolgoi

Mongolia is increasingly becoming a destination for tourism and expatriate residents. As a rapidly developing city, Mongolia's capital Ulaanbaatar is seen as a comfortable, yet exciting place to live. With an array of cultural and social activities available and a growing network of international schools, housing options, and leisure facilities, its home to a growing community of international expatriates.

Located in the South Gobi Desert, just 80 kilometres from the Chinese border, the Oyu Tolgoi open pit mine and camp is a large, well-run, and comfortable site with multiple amenities including recreational and sports facilities, a cinema, shops, restaurants and bars catered to a growing community. For more information about OT site, please check out this video.

Where you’ll be working

Oyu Tolgoi is an operating Copper / Gold open pit mine with a brownfields underground mining. The site is in the Gobi Desert region of Mongolia. The reserves case for the underground mine is in the order of 0.5 billion tonnes of ore to be mined from the 95,000 tonnes per day Hugo North Lift 1 (HNL1) panel cave mine with a 20-year operations life. There is also the potential for 3 further block cave districts to increase mine life beyond 100 years.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ 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.

Job application closes on 5 October 2023

Job Type: Full-time