The Rio Tinto Alcan Yarwun refinery is situated north-west of the central Queensland port city of Gladstone, which is adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef. The Yarwun team is committed to achieving new benchmark performance levels in engineering and construction, community relations, and health, safety and environment. Yarwun is RTA's first wholly owned and operated Alumina Refinery. The first alumina refinery to be built in the western world in over twenty years, its design draws on the best available proven technology.
 
Reporting to the Specialist Reliability Engineering, you will use your system analysis expertise to achieve solid reliability improvements to equipment and processes.  Using RCA and other techniques, you will proactively identify and drive improvement projects, using your influencing skills to build effective working relationships across the site.  In addition you will review plant performance and cost data to evaluate the levels of control and capability of equipment and identify potential improvement opportunities from performance data.  You will provide technical and quality assurance support to Maintenance and Production by supporting the operations team with reliability processes, whilst implementing best practice preventative maintenance strategies.
 

You will also support management in culturally embedding the business improvement philosophy across the organisation.  This role represents a fantastic opportunity to take a growing organisation to its next level of performance.

 
To be successful in this position you will have a tertiary qualification in mechanical engineering or equivalent and experience in a similar role. You will be required to identify, develop, recommend and implement strategies for improving equipment and process reliability, by facilitating reliability review meetings, root cause analysis sessions and drive the successful implementation of reliability improvement projects. Knowledge of SAP, Six Sigma, LEAN, RCM, TPM would be well regarded.
 
Supported by senior management, this is your opportunity to implement significant reliability improvements to a growing organisation in a booming industry.
 
In return we offer you a dynamic and rewarding career with a global organisation, a competitive salary along with an attractive remuneration package that offers benefits for financial/insurance, health and wellbeing and professional development.
 
Applications close Wednesday 11 August 2010.

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