Senior Planner (Lead) - Maintenance Planning

Senior Planner (Lead) – Maintenance Planning

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Newly created role where you can take ownership to drive work management processes for Boyne Smelters Limited
• Lead a well-establish planning team

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

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.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Planner to oversee the maintenance planning team and provide technical expertise to ensure the effective application of the asset management systems and processes to develop maintenance plans in alignment with business plans.

This role is a great opportunity for someone with strong technical planning/scheduling experience to lead and build the team to implement and align the way we work with the Rio Tinto work management processes and drive work management processes for site.

Working Monday to Friday and reporting to the Maintenance Planning Superintendent, you will:

• Support changes across site in work management processes
• Develop and coach the planning team
• Action incoming work requests and allocate work tasks to the team.
• Optimise equipment and resource availabilities.
• Create annual team budgets and maintain master data records.

What you’ll bring

• Experience in a trade or engineering role in a maintenance environment or equivalent similar planning role
• Experience with CMMS/SAP for budget development, resource levelling and related tasks
• Strong data and risk analysis and statistics skills
• Knowledge of asset inventory life cycles
• A highly organised, structured & detailed approach to planning with a strong commitment to safety.
• Excellent communication skills via all mediums with the ability to negotiate positive outcomes across multiple stakeholders.

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, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• 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’ll be working

Boyne Smelters Limited is Australia’s second largest aluminium smelter with a 1,000-person strong workforce. Located approximately 20km south east of Gladstone at Boyne Island on the Central Queensland coast, BSL produces around 500,000 tonnes of aluminium per annum.

Activities at BSL include manufacturing carbon anodes in the carbon plant, aluminium production (smelting) in reduction lines, and casting of molten material into aluminium products ready to ship. The smelter is connected via a conveyor belt to the Queensland Alumina Limited refinery for the supply of alumina.

BSL is committed to protecting the environment and ensuring safe work practices where people feel safe at work and care for each other.

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.