Specialist HME Capital Scope & Analysis

Specialist - Heavy Mobile Equipment Fleet Strategy

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusive
• Pivotal exposure to multiple stakeholders – make a difference every day
• Permanent Perth based role: Monday – Friday

About the role

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

We are looking for enthusiastic and high performing Specialist HME Fleet Strategy to join our dynamic team at the Operations Centre.

This is a great opportunity for a driven individual to support the delivery of short- and long-term Fleet Plans for RTIO’s Heavy Mobile Equipment (HME), while providing insights and information on Load, Haul and Ancillary capacity, plan demand, plan-to-plan changes, and opportunities to enhance RTIO HME’s fleet strategy.

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 Principal HME Fleet Strategy & Planning, and working in a challenging and dynamic environment, you will be: 

• Following and implement the Load & Haul Fleet Strategy
• Ability to read and translate mine plans into HME Fleet plans over quarterly, five year and ten-year time horizons
• Manage the HME ancillary model and annual reconciliation
• Compile annual replacement fleet plans based on equipment useful life limits
• Identify and facilitate life extension/rebuild opportunities based on current condition and projected maintenance cost
• Review options analysis, business cases and CEA development for fleet procurement
• Syndicate and communicate updates to HME fleet plans across key stakeholders

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• A tertiary qualification in Mining Engineering.
• 3-5 years’ experience in Mine Production or Planning with significant exposure to operational aspects and autonomous mining environments
• Highly proficient level in computer literacy including the Microsoft Office Suite, Office 365, Microsoft Project.
• Databases user (e.g., SAP, SQL, ORDW)
• Great interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work either unsupervised or as part of a team
• Analytical Mindset with a problem-solving aptitude with strong attention to detail.

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).

Where you will be working

Our integrated iron ore network is supported by our Operations Centre (OC) in Perth, a state-of-the-art facility that enables all the autonomous trucks, trains and drills at our mines, ports and rail systems to be operated from a single location. The Centre incorporates visualisation and collaboration tools to provide real-time information across our demand chain and allows us to optimise our mining, maintenance and logistic activities across the Pilbara in a way never before possible. Located near the Perth domestic airport, the OC operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to coordinate our integrated network of mines, rail, and ports from 1,500km away.

Applications close on 14 October 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)

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. 

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA2 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.