Quality Control: Technical at Rio Tinto

About the role

• Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.
• We are looking for a Quality Control : Technician to control the quality of technical execution of the shut and increase reliability and availability of equipment. QCT are responsible for ensuring manufactured products meet set standards of quality, reliability and performance meet customer expectations. Establish quality procedures, standards, and specifications for a company. Collaborate with an organization’s stores to ensure spares supplied meet quality requirements. Set and enforce standards during work execution. Read and interpret drawings. Have vast knowledge of the system used by the organization.

Reporting to the Co-ordinator: RMM & SP&L Shut, you will:

• Perform full plant shutdown with loss of production for a concentrated period above (12 hours, 1 week, 2 weeks, etc.) as per agreed shutdown schedule.
• Ensure all shutdown planning will follow the Rio Tinto shut management process and liaise with planner or QCP to have the list of work that is going to be done in the shut.
• Engage with Engineer/Reliability Engineer regarding which tasks that require QA/QC and assign operations in the work orders.
• List all the tasks that require fabrication or refurbishments and acquire drawings to understand the scope and technical background.
• Verify if the QA/QC templates for the tasks identified are available if not, liaise with Reliability Engineer to create the templates and review the established templates if they are relevant and updated and rectify thereof and liaise with Shut Controller regarding the spares received to quality inspect spares if they are correct as per BOM specifications and if they are not damaged.
• Verify the spares in the plant and spares received and engage with fabricating refurbishment vendor to agree on hold/Witness points for the equipment’s to be fabricated.
• Liaise with the shut planner to assign resources that will do conduct QA/QC during the shut and have all documents required ready.
• During execution, ensure that all the QA/QC are being conducted and the documents are filled and keep record of the QA/QC done and analyse the QA/QC, and any deviations to be reported to Reliability Engineer for changes in the system and also in the drawings.

What you’ll bring:

• N5 in an Engineering discipline
• Trade Test
• EB License
• Certificate in Planning
• 5 year’s heavy / mining industry / Maintenance Planning Systems experience