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Electrical & Instrumentation Technicians - Boyne Smelter
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About The Role
Are you looking to start 2026 the right way and grow your career as a qualified Electrician within one of Australia’s biggest names in the mining industry?
We currently have full‑time permanent opportunities for Electrical and Instrumentation Technicians wanting to upskill and obtain HVIA certification or HV Electricians / Industrial Electricians wanting to upskill and obtain Cert III Instrumentation. These roles are offered on site to join our high performing maintenance teams across our Boyne Smelter Operations.
Whether you’re new to your trade or an experienced professional, and whatever industry you have exposure to, we have opportunities that will provide interesting work and growth opportunities for everyone.
Living in Gladstone offers the perfect balance with all of the services and facilities that you expect from a city and relaxed coastal lifestyle, with incredible beaches, easy access to world‑class reefs and national parks.
Your experience, career goals and lifestyle preferences will help guide which team you will join, including but not limited to:
- Carbon Maintenance Team
- Reduction line Maintenance Team
- Services Maintenance Team
- Power Supply Team
- General Maintenance Team
At Boyne Smelter, we are passionate about safety, we look out for each other and work together to find better ways to do things. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your development and will help you achieve your career goals.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and replace electrical equipment.
- Execute planned and unplanned breakdown maintenance.
- Troubleshoot, calibrate, repair and service fixed plant electrical assets.
- Work at heights activities.
- Work autonomously, being reliable and positively contributing to the maintenance team, and understand the requirement to maintain assets in a safe and reliable condition.
- Identify and implement improvement initiatives, which may involve working with many different disciplines within the organisation.
- Promote and identify HSE opportunities to improve equipment, processes and behaviours.
- Execute defined primary and secondary scopes from SAP (CMMS).
What You’ll Bring
- A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
- Respect for others and an all‑inclusive mindset.
- Valid C Class driver’s licence.
- An Australian ‘A’ grade Electrical licence.
- Instrumentation Certificate advantageous.
- Working at Heights/EWP desirable.
- Experience in planned maintenance including conveyors, PLC, instrumentation and other plant equipment.
- Proven history of fault finding and repairs on various electrical equipment.
- Proven maintenance experience working in heavy/industrial industry.
What We Offer
- Full relocation provided to Gladstone, Queensland from elsewhere in Australia.
- Work environment where safety is always the number one priority.
- A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto.
- A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with an annual incentive program.
- Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family.
- Attractive share ownership plan.
- Company provided insurance cover.
- Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options.
- Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions.
- Ongoing access to family‑friendly health and medical wellbeing support.
- Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave, cultural leave).
- To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them.
- Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more.
Where You’ll Be Working
Boyne Smelters Limited is Australia’s second‑largest aluminium smelter with a 1,000‑person strong workforce. Located approximately 20km south‑east of Gladstone at Boyne Island on the Central Queensland coast, BSL produces around 500,000 tonnes of aluminium per annum.
Activities at BSL include manufacturing carbon anodes in the carbon plant, aluminium production (smelting) in reduction lines, and casting of molten material into aluminium products ready to ship. The smelter is connected via a conveyor belt to the Queensland Alumina Limited refinery for the supply of alumina.
BSL is committed to protecting the environment and ensuring safe work practices where people feel safe at work and care for each other.
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.
Respect and Inclusion
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.
Seniority Level
Not Applicable
Employment Type
Full‑time
Job Function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Mining and Oil and Gas
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