What are the responsibilities and job description for the Electrical & Instrumentation Engineer position at Rio Tinto?
- Join a leading global company
- Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
- Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
About The Role
We are looking for a Electrical & Instrumentation Engineer to ensure the reliability, compliance, enhancement, and expansion of the site’s electrical and instrumentation systems.
This is a great opportunity for an experienced technical leader to play a critical role in the full lifecycle of electrical and instrumentation systems, including development, standardization, procurement, construction, and commissioning.
The engineer will serve as a recognized technical authority, providing direction and governance while leading. This role ensures consistent application of corporate standards, strict adherence to safety regulations, and alignment with site-specific operational requirements.
About The Role
Reporting to the Maintenance & Reliability Manager and working in a collaborative community, a challenging and exciting environment, you will
- Champion a safety‑first culture across all electrical and instrumentation (E&I) activities, ensuring full compliance with site safety rules, procedures, and regulatory requirements for employees and contractors.
- Lead and apply best practices for preventive and predictive maintenance (PM/PdM) of electrical distribution, sensing, and control systems.
- Ensure all E&I maintenance and reliability activities comply with PSM, PSC, and Mechanical Integrity (MI) requirements, and regularly evaluate performance against reliability targets.
- Align site Electrical Mechanical Integrity procedures with corporate standards and applicable codes (e.g., NEC, NFPA).
- Provide leadership in the engineering design, review, and specification of E&I systems, ensuring reliability, safety, and standards compliance.
- Develop, maintain, and standardize E&I design documentation and Process Safety Information, including CAD drawings and loop sheets.
- Establish and maintain standardized approaches for E&I equipment selection, installation, and long‑term asset reliability.
- Collaborate closely with internal teams and external contractors to ensure E&I design, construction, and execution meet site and reliability expectations.
- Lead project handover and commissioning activities, ensuring safe, organized, and successful startup of systems.
- Serve as the site’s primary E&I technical authority, providing leadership, mentoring, troubleshooting support, and technical guidance to technicians, supervisors, and engineering teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Instrumentation Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Professional engineering licenses or certifications are an advantage.
- 3–8 years of relevant experience in electrical and instrumentation engineering with a strong knowledge in instrumentation.
- Proficient in control systems, PLC/DCS, SCADA, and instrumentation technologies.
- Familiarity with design tools like AutoCAD, EPLAN, or similar.
- Strong understanding of industrial standards and practices (e.g., IEC, IEEE, ISA, etc.).
- Knowledge of hazardous area classification and intrinsic safety design.
- 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.
- Competitive base salary is reflective of your skills and experience with an annual incentive bonus.
- Access to top-tier family-friendly health programs including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life insurance coverage, and various voluntary benefits.
- Excellent retirement plan including up to 6% defined company contribution; Generous 401k matching program.
- Attractive share ownership plan.
- Comprehensive leave policies which cover all the moments that matter in life PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave.
- A generous parental leave policy, which ensures you’re able to spend quality time with your new family.
- Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing.
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), which provides confidential counselling or expert guidance for you and your family to help get through life’s challenges.
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 Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA 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.