Principal Scheduling Logistics

Principal Scheduling Logistics

• Drive innovation and promote value-added growth as part of your work
• Lead an experienced team that plays a key role in the success of RTIO & maintaining the consistent delivery of Rio Tinto’s market leading Pilbara Blend product 
• Great opportunity to enhance & apply your understanding of the RTIO value chain from mine through to customer
• Monday – Friday at our Operations Centre in Perth with flexible working arrangements

About the role 

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

We are looking for Principal Scheduling Logistics within our Planning Integration & Assets business to play a key role in leading the Logistics Scheduling team whilst contributing to the balancing of all components of the world’s largest integrated mine network, comprising 17 mines, +1900km rail, and 2 ports to supply product to over 100 global customers.

We are an open and connected team, that offers competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

Reporting to the Manager Integrated Operations Scheduling this is a fantastic opportunity for a technical leader with excellent communication skills to lead a team of experts. You will be joining an experienced and knowledgeable group of supply chain subject matter experts whose expertise spans across mine scheduling, maintenance integration, port scheduling and supply planning.

In this role, you will be:

• Accountable for ensuring an operational readiness for the Future Scheduling Platform within Logistics Scheduling
• Coordinating and overseeing all scheduling activities for the movement of iron ore from the mine stockpile to our customers
• Liaising regularly with RTIO Commercial and Marine teams to manage the ship queue and vessel arrival planning
• Responsible for managing quality delivery within the value chain
• Delivering a range of productivity improvements whilst displaying a high degree of commercial acumen.
• Advising, recommending, and reporting to a wide group of stakeholders and leaders across the business

It is important to have well-developed engagement skills, allowing you to effectively communicate and influence across a diverse stakeholder base whilst leading your team to success, through effective goal setting, coaching and support. You will also be required to work with senior leaders and operational managers to safely deliver best-for-business outcomes and managing competing priorities.

What you will bring 

It is crucial for success in this role that you bring a deep curiosity to your work, one that drives you to challenge the status-quo and present solutions that will help us to work smarter every day. This coupled with the courage to take risks, learning as much from your mistakes as the successes, will see you champion the normalisation of failure as a pathway to ultimate success. 

What we offer 

Be recognised for your contribution and thinking, hard work, and go home knowing you have 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
• 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)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

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 will be working 

In our Operations Centre in Perth. Rio Tinto operates the world's largest integrated portfolio of iron ore assets with industry-leading margins. Our premium product suite, including our flagship Pilbara blend, drives strong customer relationships and is supported by technical and commercial marketing expertise. The iron ore business continues to be the world's largest autonomous truck operator and a proud leader in automated mining technologies. 

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 11^th September 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)