Electrical Communications Technician

Role Details:

Reporting to the Leading Hand : Electrical, you will be responsible for providing quality and timely preventative installation, maintenance, and repairs of the surface and underground radio communications and telemetry network facilities.

As an employee at Gold Fields, we expect all levels of employees to act in a manner that seeks to align and enhance the values, safety culture, and performance of Gold Fields with the purpose of creating enduring value beyond mining. 

This is offered on 8 days on, 6 days off roster and is FIFO from Perth, or DIDO from local community areas.

Benefits include:

• 6% Site Allowance

• Quarterly Bonus Scheme

• Private Health Insurance Allowance

• Increased annual leave entitlements

• Long service leave pro-rata after 5 years of continuous service

• Continual training and the ability to expand your career

• Salary Sacrifice options

Duties of the role:

• Routine inspections of machinery and fixed plant and carry out preventive measures and condition reporting.

• Fault-finding, diagnosis, repair, and maintenance of the communications networks. Experience using Spectrum Analyzer and OTDR necessary.

• Design and Installation of communications equipment: Leaky Feeder, Fibre Optics, Structured Cabling etc.

• Programming Kenwood Digital Radios and Repeaters.

• Commissioning of new communication technology introduced to the site.

• Recording all relevant information into goldfields CMMS - SAP as required.

• Ability to work unsupervised and in a team environment

About You:

• Ideally hold a WA “A” Class Electrical Workers Licence highly desirable

• Hold a current manual C Class Driver’s Licence

• Tertiary qualification in IT, Communications and or Instrumentation is desirable

• Prior experience in radio communications, RCT analogue, telemetry networks and maintenance in surface and underground mining environment

• Experience with leaky feeder and with Sandvik and Atlas Copco drills highly desirable

• Experience with instrumentation and fibre optics is highly desirable

• Open cabling ticket with fibre endorsement, structured cabling and coaxial is desirable

• Dogging, rigging, working at heights, high voltage switching &/or integrated tool carrier experience and qualifications is desirable

Applications can be submitted via: https://careers.goldfields.com/Australia

Gold Fields is committed to achieving an inclusive workforce. We recognise that the diverse talent of our people will ultimately determine our growth, performance and success. We strongly encourage applications from female, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, as well as candidates with culturally diverse backgrounds.