Specialist Planning

• Permanent employment which includes attractive salary, annual bonuses and a huge range of additional benefits which are designed to make your life better  
• You’ll work on a 5/2/4/3 roster which will give you more time to spend on the things that are important to you and the people in your life. The role is based at our 7Mile Rolling Stock Maintenance (RSM) Workshop in Dampier and is open to fifo or residential (Karratha / Dampier)

• Help demonstrate our values of care, courage and curiosity

• Tremendous opportunity to join a global organisation at the forefront of mining

About The Role

Planning Specialist, Reporting to the Superintendent Planning and Productivity RSM, you will:

• Support the Planning team with maintenance plans, schedules, and packages for maintenance activities on all rollingstock assets, including detailed work scopes, material identification, work packages, work schedules and estimated cost of work
• Ensure appropriate allocation and availability of material and equipment resources to achieve planned outcomes
• Ensure compliance with relevant statutory and legislative provisions
• Identifying improvement opportunities and implementing planning process changes
• Deliver projects identified by the execution and Engineering team
• Manage contractors using the CMS process to complete project and planned maintenance tasks
• Prioritize work with the Execution Supervisors, Superintendents and external departments and suppliers, utilising your considerable stakeholder and relationship building skills.

What You’ll Bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team, and alignment with our values of Care, Courage, and Curiosity
• Respect for others and an all-inclusive mindset
• Highly effective leadership, organisational, time management and analytical skills
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail
• Strong Work Management understanding
• Experience with SAP and maintenance planning, rail industry preferred
• People focused and the capability to build strong working relationships
• Proficient in Microsoft office skills (Excel, PowerBI, PowerApps)
• Experience in data and trend analysis to support the delivery of business improvement initiatives is desirable
• Ability to work in a high-pace role, managing multiple deliverables and stakeholders whilst maintaining autonomy and self-motivation

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.  
• Housing assistance for residential employees (Dampier / Karratha)
• 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 bonus  
• 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, cultural leave)  
• To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them  
• Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more.

We are committed to elevating Indigenous voices and increasing cultural knowledge in our business. Diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together.  To help you on your journey with us, you’ll also have access to:

Where you will be working

7 Mile, Dampier – RSM Workshop

Applications close on 3rd February 2025 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)

About Rio TintoRio 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 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 situations and meet opportunities.

Every Voice MattersAt 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.