Long Term Planner

Long Term Planner

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
• Monday to Friday Family Friendly roster

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We are looking for an experienced Long Term Planner to support the day-to-day and long-term strategic maintenance, reliability and engineering functions at Power Supply Department.

This role is a great opportunity for a highly motivated, results driven individual with a continuous improvement mindset.

Working Monday to Friday 5/2 Roster and reporting to the Power Supply Superintendent, you will:

• Action incoming work requests and allocate work tasks to the team.
• Optimise equipment and resource availabilities.
• Create annual team budgets and maintain master data records.

What you’ll bring

• A Demonstrated experience in Planning / Scheduling with a high proficiency in SAP.
• A highly organised, structured & detailed approach to planning with a strong commitment to safety.
• Ability to prioritise and coordinate large volumes of multi-discipline work for compressed air, natural gas and High Voltage Assets.
• Strong ability to analyse relevant performance metrics and determine improvement actions
• Excellent communication skills via all mediums with the ability to negotiate positive outcomes across multiple stakeholders.
• High level of numeracy, literacy and computing skills.
• An Electrical trade background is essential.

What we offer

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

• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• 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
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers. 

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers – generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress. 

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world and explore the universe.Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life. 

Where you’ll be working

Boyne Smelters Limited is Australia’s second largest aluminium smelter with a 1,000-person strong workforce. Located approximately 20km south east of Gladstone at Boyne Island on the Central Queensland coast, BSL produces around 500,000 tonnes of aluminium per annum.

Activities at BSL include manufacturing carbon anodes in the carbon plant, aluminium production (smelting) in reduction lines, and casting of molten material into aluminium products ready to ship. The smelter is connected via a conveyor belt to the Queensland Alumina Limited refinery for the supply of alumina.

BSL is committed to protecting the environment and ensuring safe work practices where people feel safe at work and care for each other.

Every Voice Matters

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.