Integration Advisor
Rio Tinto
Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support\
Join our world-class, Pilbara Iron Ore operations
Excellent opportunity
Where we’re all welcome
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 who we are.
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 acknowledge that all people are different and believe that our differences are our strength. The diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together.
About the role
The Integration Advisor plays a pivotal role within Rail Maintenance Integration, responsible for managing and optimising obstructions and prioritising emerging works or Maintenance opportuntities in the Short Term Planning and Execution Work Management timeframes.
The role provide expertise in obstruction planning, reporting, and compliance during the execution week, while supporting schedulers with critical work during the finalisation of the schedule.
As an Integration Advisor you are responsible for ensuring minimal impact on the production plan, driving process optimisations, and fostering team development through technical training.
Provide technical expertise in obstruction planning, managing the performance and optimisation of obstructions in the Short Term Planning and Execution timeframes. Optimise obstructions by ensuring no clashes in obstruction works, reducing Limits of Authorities, track obstruction durations to drive productivity, efficiency and increase capacity to Supply Chain
Manage change requests and plan deviations, ensuring all requests are submitted in a timely manner, with impacts assessed and reported accurately. Assist with managing deviations within the Short Term Planning window, engaging stakeholders to ensure the executability of the plan.
Oversee the Rail Maintenance Change to Plan (CTP) process ensuring only critical works such as TSR’s, track defects, derailment risk, weather related changes and Supply Chain requests are included to drive stability in Maintenance Execution Plan.
Manage obstruction execution, including escalation and resolution of obstructions. Report on compliance, ensure timely updates to the Change to Plan register, and monitor impacts to the production plan.
Conduct weekly Integration reviews, facilitate Weekly T4/3 obstruction review meeting collaborating with scheduling teams to drive timely resolution. Proactively manage escalations to ensure minimal disruption to train schedules, engaging with the relevant teams (Network Planners, RL&O, ISP) as necessary.
Participate in reviews of the IAM framework, obstruction guidelines, and execution principles. Recommend improvements to processes and ensure compliance with planning and scheduling best practices.
Act as a primary interface between the ISP, Rail Maintenance & Operations Execution teams, Scheduling teams, and external stakeholders (e.g., Port and Mines). Foster collaboration across teams, ensuring alignment and clarity in obstruction management.
Provide a positive coaching and training experience on the obstruction framework, rules, and processes. Promote team knowledge and development, ensuring that all team members are equipped with the skills needed to handle obstruction and change requests.
Provide support to Execution Supervisors, Engineers and Superintendents, assisting with the resolution of issues related to obstructions and planning.
Spend a minimum of one day per month onsite in field with execution teams, gaining hands-on experience and ensuring a practical understanding of field operations to assist in your role.
What you’ll bring
Minimum one year of scheduling, planning, or rail operations experience
Knowledge of rail operations, work management fundamentals, and track schematics.
Manual driver’s license – mandatory
Rail Safeworking qualifications - desirable
Certificate II in Rail Infrastructure – desirable
One year of rail experience, particularly in obstruction planning and execution.
Experience in process improvement and change request management.
Experience in SAP, HOSDI, and NetPASS applications
What we offer
Be recognised for your contribution, you’re 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 bonus
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
Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave, cultural leave)
To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them
Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more.
Where you will be working
Our privately owned and operated rail network is an essential part of our integrated production process and services our 15 mines across the Pilbara via 1,700km of track. With depots located at Tom Price, Cape Lambert and Dampier (7 Mile), each train is operated by a single driver and comprises up to three locomotives and 240 ore cars stretching to approximately 2.7 kilometres in length with over 40 trains operating per day. We are also applying and adapting technology to improve safety and productivity across our rail network.
About Rio TintoRio 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.
Every Voice MattersAt 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.
