Senior Planner - Dampier Ports

Senior Planner

• Work and live where family friendly flexibility is encouraged, surrounded by the coastal lifestyle!
• Residential only opportunity| Dampier location
• 5 days on; 2 days off / 4 days on; 3 days off | every other weekend is a long weekend – more time to spend on the things that are important to you and the people in your life!
• Permanent employment which includes attractive salary, annual bonuses and a huge range of additional benefits, designed to make your life better!

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 a Senior Planner to join the Dampier Ports Maintenance Planning Team to help us excel at safely maintaining our Dampier 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.

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 Superintendent Planning & Workshop, and working in a diverse team on a Residential roster as 5 days on; 2 days off / 4 days on; 3 days off 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 experience, and able to engage with multiple key stakeholders
• A current and valid manual ‘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 
• 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

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.

This role is available as a residential opportunity only, should you be interested in a sea change, and everything out beautiful WA coastline has to offer you can find out more, check out the following link:

https://karratha.wa.gov.au/community/community-hubs-venues-and-facilities/dampier-community-hub

Applications close on Friday the 27^th of October 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).