Shutdown Scheduler

Shutdown Scheduler

• Opportunity to transfer your planning/scheduling skills into the mining industry
• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
• Attractive 8 days on; 6 days off roster
• FIFO from Perth to Gudai-Darri

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We are looking for a Shutdown Scheduler to join our Gudai-Darri operation to help us excel at safely maintaining our fixed plant assets through effective preparation and delivery of maintenance schedules.

This is a great opportunity for enthusiastic individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is seeking a rewarding planning/scheduling role.

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.

Reporting to the Senior Planner and working in a dynamic and exciting environment you will be:

• Using work management processes to produce maintenance schedules
• Prioritising work with the Supervisors, Superintendents, and external departments, utilising your considerable stakeholder and relationship building skills
• Work closely with a variety of stakeholders across the organisation to identify and implement opportunities for continuous improvement and ensure there is effective communication of the plans to ensure appropriate risk management strategies are in place
• Leading the maintenance scheduling function for activities in-line with our Asset Management and Work Management processes and practices
• Providing Subject Matter Expertise to site on our Planning & Scheduling, Work Management and Shut Management processes
• Monitoring and improving the effectiveness of our Maintenance Planning & Scheduling process
• Building schedules and maintaining capacities to ensure the effectiveness of the execution of these schedules is achieved
• Ensuring targets are consistently delivered in a sustainable/ timely manner and with maximum customer satisfaction.

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Demonstrated skills in maintenance planning or scheduling
• Working knowledge of SAP or similar system
• Experienced with the use of MS Project and building Gantt charts
• Intermediate knowledge in Microsoft Office including Excel
• A current Australian driver's license (manual)
• Ability to work under pressure and coordinate multiple work targets
• Can do attitude with problem solving skills, logical thinking and sound decision making
• Strong communication and presentation skills, both written and oral

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 (residential role only)
• Remote Area Holiday Travel Assistance (residential role only)
• 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

Our $A3.6 billion Gudai-Darri iron ore mine is our most technologically advanced mine. In addition to leveraging technology already in use across Rio Tinto, such as autonomous trucks, trains and drills, Gudai-Darri also has more than 70 design innovations including a reclaimer with a rotable bucket wheel, a world class laboratory and in-field access to data and systems for all team members. 

The Caterpillar mining fleet at Gudai-Darri includes autonomous trucks, production drills, and in a world first, autonomous water carts.

Located 110km north-west of Newman, Gudai-Darri will produce up to 43 million tonnes of iron ore a year in its first phase, contributing to our flagship product, the Pilbara Blend™. It will also become a production hub for our iron ore business, incorporating world class infrastructure and a 166-kilometre rail line connecting the mine to our existing network.

Gudai-Darri is creating jobs and business opportunities in Western Australia. More than 2,000 people have been employed as part of its construction with approximately 600 permanent operational roles created. 

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 Friday the 14^th of October 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).