Operators - Boyne Smelters

About the Role

Rio Tinto's Boyne Smelters requires Operators to support operational departments to ensure the safe and sustainable production of aluminium through the operation of mobile and fixed plant equipment in conjunction with manual duties.

Some of the key responsibilities include:

• Operating cranes to set anodes and tap metal and other tasks to tend the cells
• Process operations including cell dressing, raising beams, filling cell ore hoppers, tapping and transferring bath
• Driving mobile equipment as required (including forklifts)
• Process operations – examples include process control using control panels, casting hot metal, operating fixed plant equipment, using scrabble guns, equipment isolation and de-isolation, process sampling and housekeeping
• Metal transportation using specialised equipment, furnace preparation, casting pit operation, ingot machine operation, product inspection and quality control, operation of cutting saws, fabrication of M-straps fabrication and dross handling

About You

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• Current valid driver’s licence
• Demonstrated ability to function effectively as part of a team and to autonomously manage your workload
• A willingness and ability to work in a labour-intensive role, in confined space, at heights and in hot environments
• Operating mobile equipment experience which could include forklift, elevated work platform (EWP), overhead gantry crane, bobcat or dozer (preferred, but not essential)
• A willingness and ability to work on a lifestyle roster, 12-hour shifts including days and nights
• If you have previous experience in auxiliary fire service, rural fire service, SES or previous industry ERT membership, Surf Life saver, current first aid you may also be eligible to join our ERT team and access additional benefits.

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.

• A 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 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
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

Where you’ll be working

Opened in 1982, Boyne Smelters Limited is Australia’s second largest aluminium smelter with a 1,000-person strong workforce. Located approximately 20 kilometres southeast 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.

Along with Yarwun Operations and Queensland Alumina Limited, BSL supports the local community in a wide range of initiatives through Here for Gladstone.

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 situations and meet opportunities.

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.