Specialist Scheduling

Specialist Scheduler 

• Join our world-class Pilbara operations and collaborate across multiple functions to deliver safe, efficient, and integrated shutdowns for one of the world’s leading iron ore producers.

• Enjoy an attractive salary package, annual performance bonuses, and a comprehensive range of benefits designed to enhance your wellbeing and lifestyle

• FIFO from Perth on a 5 days on / 2 days off, 4 days on / 3 days off roster

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We’re currently seeking Specialist Schedulers to join a newly established, high-impact team within Rio Tinto’s Central Fixed Plant Shutdowns Division.

These roles play a critical part in supporting the site schedulers with a long-term view of the shutdown schedule, identifying and mapping critical path, sustaining capital integrations and crane allocation to ensure the safe and efficient delivery of shutdowns across the Fixed Plant assets. As part of the team, you’ll help enable the business to embed leading practices, uplift scheduler capability, and protect shutdown success well beyond the 13-week cycle.

Your focus won’t be limited to building schedules - it will be on building confidence. You’ll bring forward-thinking, risk-aware scheduling discipline to the shutdown landscape, partnering with multiple functions to ensure our shutdowns have a defined critical path that considers sustaining and project work and aligns to both site priorities and long-term asset strategy.Working on a 5 days on, 2 days off, 4 days on, 3 days off roster on-site, you will travel across multiple sites in the Pilbara embedding your presence as trusted partner.

Reporting to the Superintendent Shutdown Support you will:

• Identify and ap critical path and key driver logic to enable shutdowns that are safe, efficient, and achievable

• Translate cross-functional input into integrated schedules that align crane requirements, contractor inputs, asset health and shutdown risk.

• Partner closely with site leadership and schedulers to align scope, readiness, and resource planning.

• Engage with key functions, including Maintenance Planning and Engineering, Asset Health, Central Shutdown, Operational Excellence, Long-Term Planning, Cranes & Transport, Master Data, and Mobilisation teams

• Contribute to shutdown data maturity, cost visibility, and continuous improvement across tools and processes.

• Support forward planning by influencing longer-horizon shutdown strategies, scope pipelines, and labour modelling

• Guide shutdown teams in operating within Zero-Based Budgeting parameters and supporting forecast accuracy through better schedule logic based on asset health, site strategy and business goals.

• Collaborate with Sustaining Capital on project integration

What you’ll bring     

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team  

• Respect for others and an all-inclusive mindset  

• Demonstrated experience in shutdown scheduling or asset management in a complex operational environment.

• Computer literacy, with advanced proficiency in Prometheus and, or other scheduling tools, SAP, and confidence in Outlook, Excel, Word and Power BI.

• Deep understanding of Work Management and Shutdown Management processes, with a drive for continuous improvement.

• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, able to build trust and communicate effectively with leaders at all levels.

• Financial awareness and the ability to guide shutdown teams on budget alignment and cost drivers.

• A passion for elevating shutdown performance, thinking beyond the next plan to protect long-term outcomes

• Desire to contribute to the uplift of capability across Fixed Plant assets, supporting a culture of excellence and growth

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 & 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, personal & cultural leave)

• Exclusive employee discounts (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:

• Specialist Indigenous Support Advisors are always there for our Indigenous employees and available to support through any aspect of your employment

• Dedicated Indigenous Talent Programme for our Operators and Tradespersons and entry level operational roles. This programme is designed to create long term sustainable careers for our Indigenous Employees to grow into leadership or technical pathways to ensure you have every opportunity to grow your career.

• Indigenous leadership programmes across some professional and operational roles to ensure that we are developing Indigenous Leaders.

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

Applications close on Tuesday the 16th of December 2025 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date #gts

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.

Respect and InclusionAt 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.