Senior Portfolio Planner - Drilling & Earthworks

Senior Portfolio Planner – Drilling & Earthworks

• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
• Perth CBD based role with flexible working arrangements available

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Senior Portfolio Planner to join our Resource Development team in Perth.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced program planner with fantastic stakeholder engagement experience and a strong understanding of project management principles, to continue progressing their career in a dynamic planning function.

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 flexible working arrangements are designed to help you live the lifestyle that is right for you and your family.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

Reporting to the Superintendent Planning and Scheduling, Resource Development and working in a challenging and exciting environment within the Resource Development Team, you will be:

• Leading the planning and scheduling of resource development drilling operations to ensure resilient and predictable operational plans
• Engaging and collaborating with technical scope owners, Site based operational teams and a broad range of license to operate stakeholders across the business
• Lead a team of Planners within the broader Resource Development Planning team
• Project Manage through setting assumptions, identifying scope constraints, mitigating risks and developing contingency plans

• Contribute towards a strong safety culture across Resource Development through leadership in the field and championing safety improvements

• Coordinate & comply with ground disturbance approvals required for Resource Development activities

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement within team, demonstrated through effective team engagement and leadership
• Identify, track, and communicate conformance to plan against scope and program level

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• Expertise in planning and scheduling production/mine planning or evaluation and exploration projects
• Familiarity across Resource Development operations (site experience advantageous, with breadth across multiple areas/functions, e.g., geology, hydrogeology, survey, etc.)
• Advanced Project Management experience
• Experience in effectively collaborating with stakeholders

• Ability to prioritise and manage an evolving workload

• Outside the box and solutions focused thinking

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, you’re 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)

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

This role is based in Perth, at our head office in Central Park, and working Monday to Friday. We want you to have a great work/life balance, so the days, hours, location of work are flexible (including working from home). You may be required to travel to the Pilbara to support our customers on an as required basis.

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 Tuesday 18th April 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).