Infrastructure Electrician

Rio Tinto is a leading international mining group headquartered in the UK. Rio Tinto's business is finding, mining and processing mineral resources. Major products are aluminium, copper, diamonds, energy (coal and uranium), gold, industrial minerals (borax, titanium dioxide, salt, talc) and iron ore. Activities span the world but are strongly represented in Australia and North America with businesses in South America, Asia, Europe and Southern Africa. For more information, please visit www.riotinto.com.

Rio Tinto Energy has recently acquired control of Riversdale Mining in Mozambique. Riversdale currently has 2 projects, the Benga project which is set to produce first coal in 2011. The Rio Tinto Health and Safety standards and processes need to be established in a quick and effective way to deliver strong health and safety outcomes and alignment with Rio Tinto's values and standards.

The Infrastructure Electrician is a member of the Maintenance and Engineering team, reporting through to the Supervisor Maintenance and Infrastructure. The team is responsible for providing maintenance and engineering support services to the Benga Operations. The primary purpose of the Infrastructure electrician is to carry out all planned and breakdown maintenance activities on electrical and air conditioning systems for the infrastructure facilities and equipment at the Benga Operation

Key accountabilities

• Lead by example, demonstrating behavior which supports the direction and values of RTCM by consistently demonstrating safe behaviors.
• Confront Unsafe Acts in a proactive and positive manner.
• Actively participate in effective pre-start meetings and safety improvement initiatives
• Follow and promote the RTCM safety standards
• Complete Take 5's, pre-task hazard assessments & permits as required.
• Maintain infrastructure plant and equipment to a high standard.
• Demonstrate high quality workmanship in all aspect of work.
• Actively participate in formal and informal training activities
• Maintain lighting, switches and electrical equipment in safe working order;
• Install wiring and circuits for extensions and additions to work sites;
• Read wiring diagrams to plan layout of wiring systems and fault find;
• Install insulated cables and connect switches, outlets and other fittings;
• Test circuits;
• Connect systems to power supplies;
• Complete electrical calculations;
• Supporting HT Electricians in high voltage switching activities
• Actively participate in formal and informal training activities
• Actively apply the RTCM Team Membership model.
• Manage personal leave to within acceptable limits.
• Communicate openly and honestly with team members
• Participate actively in the work management process ensuring all work history is captured in the RTCM Benga CMMS
• Contribute suggestions to improve teamwork, safety, work processes and costs
• Fault finding and resolution of electrical / air conditioning breakdowns on infrastructure plant and equipment
• Interpretation of electrical schematics
• Identifying and working around issues evolving during day to day planned maintenance activities to ensure planned work compliance

Minimum Requirements

• College/University Education:
• Year 10 certificate (minimum)
• Electrical Trade Certificate
• Air con ticket
• HT Electrical Certification (desirable)
• SAGE experience
• Microsoft Office Suite (desirable)
• Drivers License
• Trainer / Assessor (desirable)
• Planned maintenance and breakdown repair activities for mine site infrastructure electrical and air conditioning systems

Infrastructure Electrician