Senior Planner

Senior Planner

• Work and live where family friendly flexibility is encouraged, surrounded by the coastal lifestyle!
• Residential or FIFO opportunities on offer | Cape Lambert / Wickham
• 5 days on; 2 days off / 4 days on; 3 days off | every other weekend is a long weekend + flexible working arrangements to suit you!

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Senior Planner to join the Cape Lambert Planning Team to help us excel at safely maintaining our Cape Lambert Assets.

This role is a great opportunity for a professional Leader who is looking to grow their skills to move forward with the business as career opportunities arise. 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

Leading on the frontline is one of the most important jobs in our business and comes with a huge amount of responsibility. We need you to motivate, inspire and keep your people safe and well. With signature leadership training programmes, growing, and developing is more than an opportunity – it is something we actively plan and make happen. Every day our leaders grow, while our rosters are designed to help you live the lifestyle that is right for you and your family.

Reporting to the Maintenance Planning Superintendent and working in a diverse team on a 5:2 / 4:3 roster, you will be:

• Detail planning of jobs in SAP, capturing improvement changes, developing estimations of resource requirements and materials.
• Create, publish, and track the budget for area of responsibility.
• Prioritising work with the Supervisors, Superintendents, and external departments, utilising your considerable stakeholder and relationship building skills.
• Developing and refining the scheduled outage forecast for designated site working with site and the central teams to optimise and manage business impact.
• Ability to think outside the box to safely reduced shutdown durations where possible.
• End to end process developing and managing the sites Zero Based Budget.
• Work closely with a variety of stakeholders across the organisation to identifying and implementing opportunities for continuous improvement and ensure there is effective communication of the plans to ensure appropriate risk management strategies are in place.

What you’ll bring

• Demonstrated skills in maintenance planning or scheduling within the resources industry.
• Strong mechanical or electrical background with experience in maintenance of Fixed Plant.
• Intermediate knowledge in SAP, Microsoft Office including Project and Excel.
• Detail understanding of Work Management and Zero-Based Budgeting principles.
• Frontline Leadership
• Previous experience utilising a Computerised Maintenance Management System (SAP experience will be highly regarded).
• A current and valid manual ‘C Class’ driver's license.

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
• Remote Area Holiday Travel Assistance
• 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

Rio 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 almost 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 and meet opportunities.

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.

You will just love that sea change and everything our beautiful WA coastline has to offer.

To find out more, check out the following link: https://karratha.wa.gov.au/map-listing/wickham

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 the 31^st of May 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).