Senior Advisor Shutdown Leading Practices
Rio Tinto
Senior Advisor Shutdown Leading Practices
Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities
Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
Apply your creativity to our huge mine datasets
About the role
Finding better ways™ to provide the materials the world needs.
We are looking for a Senior Advisor Shutdown Leading Practices to join and support our Operational Excellence Shutdown Team within the Pilbara Mines Operation. This role presents a fantastic opportunity for experienced personnel to lead, coach, and develop shutdown planners and execution teams, ensuring work management processes are structured, repeatable, and aligned with best practices. You will play a key role in standardizing work development, maintaining data integrity, and optimizing work execution processes.
You’ll work 8 days on, 6 days off roster which will give you more time to spend on the things that are important to you and the people in your life.
Reporting to the Principal Fixed Plant Shutdowns, you will:
Adhere to all Rio Tinto standards, policies and procedures
Actively foster and communicate a positive safety culture to promote safety awareness and compliance, encouraging prioritisation of safety in all activities and operations
Foster a culture of continuous improvement by identifying, evaluating and implementing improvement opportunities utilising a range of Rio Tinto best practices
Ensure all mining activities undertaken are in compliance with all relevant statutory regulations and RTIO standards and policies
As a genuine and authentic leader, you will bring your engaging leadership style and ability to influence and uplift teams.
Extensive experience in shutdown scheduling, planning, or project scheduling.
A strategic mindset with the ability to optimize schedules and align priorities.
Strong leadership and mentoring skills, with a passion for coaching planners, schedulers and Shut execution leaders
Experience in critical path analysis, schedule management, and creative mindset that keeps all aspects of a safe and executable schedule in mind.
A proven ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders across multi-disciplinary groups and align scheduling efforts with execution needs while fostering collaboration.
Coach and mentor teams on structured shutdown ramp-down and start-up execution.
Guide teams through permit management, isolations, washdowns, and commissioning.
Develop and embed ramp-down best practices, ensuring shutdowns exit safely and efficiently.
Act as a coaching leader, helping teams troubleshoot and optimize shutdown transitions.
Coach site teams and contractors on best practices in scoping, planning, and execution of Key Works.
Mentor teams on QA/QC frameworks, ensuring shutdown reliability and execution excellence.
Ensure adherence to quality standards, minimizing rework and maximizing performance.
Build strong partnerships with operational teams, ensuring alignment between shutdown execution and production ramp-up.
Work Management / Master Data to join our Centralised Shutdown Division, driving shutdown planning and master data excellence across our Pilbara operations.
This is an opportunity to lead, coach, and develop shutdown planners and execution teams, ensuring work management processes are structured, repeatable, and aligned with best practices. You will play a key role in standardizing work development, maintaining data integrity, and optimizing work execution processes.
This role is about more than just managing work planning—it’s about building strong foundations, ensuring seamless execution, and driving efficiency across shutdown workstreams
What you’ll bring
A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team is vital for all roles at Rio Tinto
As a genuine and authentic leader, you will bring your engaging leadership style and ability to influence and uplift teams.
Extensive experience in shutdown execution, scheduling, planning, or project scheduling.
A strategic mindset with the ability to optimize schedules and align priorities.
Strong leadership and mentoring skills, with a passion for coaching shut execution teams, planners and schedulers.
Experience in critical path analysis, schedule management, and creative mindset that keeps all aspects of a safe and executable schedule in mind.
A proven ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders cross multi-disciplinary groups and align scheduling efforts with execution needs while fostering collaboration. We expect you to bring your passion for field presence and curiosity.
A current Australian ‘C’ class driver's license
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
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, personal & cultural leave)
Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
Possible domestic relocation assistance
Applications close on Tuesday 20th of January 2026 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date) #gts
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.
Respect and InclusionAt 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.
