Senior Planner's

Senior Planner’s

• Fantastic opportunity to draw on your people leadership skills and technical knowledge
• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
• 5 days on; 2 days off / 4 days on; 3 days off roster – FIFO from Perth

About the role

Finding better ways to provide thematerials the world needs.

We are looking for engaging, and safety focused Senior Planner’s to join our Asset Management teams across the Pilbara.

This is an exciting opportunity, to lead a team accountable for safely maintaining our site services, fixed plant equipment and mobile equipment assets through effective preparation and delivery of maintenance planning and scheduling.

This role presents a fantastic opportunity to draw on your people leadership skills and technical knowledge. Positively develop and support your team; enabling operational, quality and budget requirements to be met, whilst driving safety excellence and positive team culture.

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.

Your demonstrated ability to engage, connect and positively influence will prove valuable to the effectiveness of this role. You will partner with operational and other key stakeholders to provide efficient maintenance planning and productivity solutions and ensuring best practice work management processes are understood and adhered to.

Reporting to the Superintendent Asset Management, working in a challenging and exciting environment within the Planning and Engineering team, you will bring:

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Leadership experience and confidence in leading, developing, and coaching team members
• Demonstrated ability in meeting targets and bringing the team on a journey of continuous development
• Working knowledge of SAP
• Well-developed stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills
• Demonstrated complex problem-solving abilities to deliver solutions across an operation
• Experience and understanding of mobile maintenance planning (desirable)
• Experience in preparing annual budgets and costs management
• A current WA 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
• 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

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

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own an integrated portfolio of iron ore assets: a world-class, integrated network of 16 mines, four independent port terminals, a 1,700-kilometre rail network and related infrastructure – all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand.

We are one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of iron ore.

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 January 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).