Scheduler, Mobile Equipment Maintenance

Scheduler, Mobile Equipment Maintenance

• Permanent employment which includes attractive salary, annual bonuses and a huge range of additional benefits which are designed to make your life better 
• Excellent opportunity to develop in role and drive efficiency in maintenance execution
• FIFO from Perth or any one of our regional Hubs
• 8 days on; 6 days off roster – more time to spend time doing the things that are important to you!

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 different. 

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

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for an experienced Planner/Scheduler to support our Mobile Equipment Maintenance team at West Angelas, as part of our Maintenance, Planning & Engineering team. The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining and improving the maintenance planning and scheduling work management process to maximise resource effectiveness, increase the reliability of our mobile equipment and minimise the interruption to the mining process, without compromising asset values so that the equipment safely produces agreed outputs to support the mine operation.

We are an open, connected international team of technical specialists using some of the most exciting data and tools on the planet. We are the world leader in automation and smart mining. We have technical development programmes that are industry-leading and recognise the unique nature of your role. These provide opportunities to grow your career through a dedicated technical path while being rewarded for your unique skills.

This role is a great opportunity to understand the full extent of maintenance work needed to conduct the relevant repair/preventive/predictive design out activities on the organisation’s mobile equipment. 

Reporting to the Senior Planner and working in a challenging and exciting environment, you will:

• Prepare weekly Schedule Gantts for heavy mobile equipment fleet.
• Review work in the required schedule period taking into consideration (Resource loading, Asset criticality, statutory work, warranty, repairable/rotable, severity and safety impact).
• Liaise with key stakeholders to ensure there is effective communication of the plans and upcoming maintenance to ensure appropriate risk management strategies are in place.
• Ensure maintenance is conducted to Asset Management standards, to increase reliability and availability of assets.
• Consult and Chair Weekly Draft and Lock-in Meetings.
• Maintain relationships with site-based stakeholders to schedule and analyse maintenance within set guidelines.

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Respect for others and an all-inclusive mindset 
• Demonstrated experience in heavy mobile equipment planning or scheduling
• Strong SAP and Microsoft Project skills
• Excellent team player, ability to multitask and be committed to delivering on-time and quality work under time pressure
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence key stakeholders
• Ability to make connections between maintenance objectives and operations requirements to provide value adding Schedules.
• Very good business and Work Management acumen, proactive nature, and the ability to interact and communicate effectively with colleagues.

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 
• Full relocation provided to Western Australia from elsewhere in Australia 
• 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, read more about the huge range of benefits here: https://bit.ly/43AQLue

Who we are

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

Located 110km west of Newman, West Angelas operates on a fly in fly out roster from Perth, Broome and Busselton.

West Angelas is a pioneer in autonomous technologies – we were the first site to trial autonomous haul trucks and incorporate autonomous drilling into our operations in 2008, and we continue to have one of the largest mining fleets in the Pilbara.

Our high grade, low phosphorous Marra Mamba orebody is an integral part of the Pilbara Blend, contributing both lump and fines products on around four trains each day. At the West Angelas hub there are state-of-the-art power generation and refueling facilities. These facilities supply power and diesel fuel to the East Pilbara mine sites.

The future is bright at West Angelas with ongoing growth projects at Deposits C and D, as well as additional deposits under study providing enormous opportunities for personal development and career growth.

Apply now for immediate consideration!

Applications close on the 22^nd of September 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).