Planner Maintenance

Maintenance Planner

• Work where family friendly flexibility is encouraged!
• FIFO opportunities on offer in Cape Lambert/Wickham
• 5 days on; 2 days off / 4 days on; 3 days off roster
• Every other weekend is a long weekend!

About the role

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

We are looking for a Maintenance Planner to provide Fixed Plant Planning and Shutdown Planning support to the site’s maintenance execution teams. The team contributes to the improvement in reliability and performance of the business’s physical assets through the implementation of the Manage Physical Assets business process.

This role is a great opportunity to demonstrate your leadership ability to engage, connect and positively influence at all organizational levels. The role will be ideal for an individual seeking development and fast-tracked career opportunities in a global mining company.

Reporting to the Senior Planner, your key accountabilities will be:

• Review and Scope notifications including primary and secondary maintenance work for Fixed Plant Maintenance
• Identify and pursue opportunities to improve reliability
• Review and Scope maintenance activities for modular shutdowns and ensure the work is captured in the 13 weekly shutdown forecasts
• Ensure maintenance activities comply with safety and environmental rules, regulations, procedures, and guidelines advising of non-compliance.
• Take part in field time to identify safety and productivity improvement opportunities
• Support the Scheduling Team; provide recommendations on equipment maintenance strategies and continuous improvement opportunities

What you’ll bring

Your mechanical or electrical trade qualifications and background will mean you are experienced with maintenance execution, scheduling, or planning. You will need to be tenacious and resilient, with a demonstrated ability to build positive working relationships within your team and with key customer groups.

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have: 

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
• Relevant experience working in a fixed plant planning role - desirable
• Proficient in SAP and Microsoft suite essential
• Mechanical trade or engineering qualification - desirable
• A current Western Australian ‘C’ Class Drivers Licence

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• Get ahead financially and enjoy housing subsidy benefits (residential role only)
• Remote Area Holiday Travel Assistance (residential role only)
• 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 and salary packaging options
• Career development and 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)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)

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

Our port facilities consist of four shipping terminals located on the Pilbara coast at Dampier and Cape Lambert which form an essential part of our logistics process. Each terminal has facilities for train unloading, iron ore stockpiling, product blending and ship loading.

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.

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.

Applications close on Wednesday 30th November (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).