Superintendent Long Term Planning

Superintendent Long-term Planning

• Our friendly teams look after each other because your safety and wellbeing are always our priority
• Great opportunity to network, collaborate and partner with mining operations, world-leading technology suppliers and maintenance planning professionals
• Perth based with flexible working arrangements available, flexible hours and opportunity to work remotely

Where we’re all welcome

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 who we are.

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 acknowledge that all people are different and believe that our differences are our strength. The diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together.

About the role

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

We have a rare and exciting opportunity for an experienced maintenance planning and budgeting leader to lead strategic innovation in our long-term planning technology, processes and capability. You’ll be deploying a world-first solution and processes that will radically enhance planning and budgeting processes and increase value delivery across Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s (RTIO) 16 mines, privately owned and operated rail network and four independent ports.

Our asset management and engineering services team operates as a centralised maintenance planning function for our RTIO operational partners and as the Superintendent Long-term Planning, you will lead a team of long-term planners, each accountable for the delivery of specific long-term plans, shut forecasts, budgets and deliver Asset Class Planning to our mining and port plant operations across the Pilbara. You’ll need to utilise your outstanding ability to partner with a variety of internal and external stakeholders including site based operational and maintenance leaders, finance and risk advisors, and asset management service providers to deliver plans that optimise cost and risk to meet prevailing business objectives.

With support from the Principal, Long Term Planning, your role will:

• Oversee, build and strategize long-term asset budget forecasts that optimise risk while meeting business objectives
• Work closely with engineering teams and sites to ensure that the zero-based long-term plans align with the standardised whole of life cost models
• Deliver efficiency and standardisation in Asset Class Planning
• Liaise with logistics and asset health teams to ensure that long-lead items and resources are provisioned and budgeted
• Work closely with operations and site short term planning teams to enable operationalization of long term plans, budgets into short term and shut plans at a quarterly cadence
• Analyse the conformance of maintenance execution with maintenance plans to identify improvement opportunities and work with asset data, engineering and finance teams throughout the change management process
• Integrate the long-term plans for each operation into their respective Fixed Asset maintenance shutdown calendars
• Provide input into the asset performance and planning process regarding Fixed Asset Schedule Loss forecasts and optimization

In addition to the above, you will also play a role in contributing to the continuous improvement of the long term planning and Whole of life asset and life cycle cost processes, in collaboration with our engineering, operations and vendor partners.

About you

You are an experienced maintenance planning leader and excited by the challenge of working across an operation of this scale and complexity. You will have working experience of mineral processing and Fixed Plant/ Infrastructure and Heavy Mobile Equipment assets. You will have excellent stakeholder engagement skills and a solid understanding of the current planning and budgeting technologies available and have demonstrated performance in asset life cycle planning, financial and risk analysis.

Previous experience working in a mining operation is not essential – we appreciate experience gained through leading similar function in other related industries; including but not limited to defence, aviation, logistics and other resource sectors. A tertiary qualification in a related discipline will also be highly regarded.

If you are excited about the role and think you have what it takes but your experience doesn't align 100% we still want to hear from you.  

What we offer

• Be recognised for your contribution, your 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
• Full relocation provided to Western Australia from elsewhere in Australia
• 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:

• 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.

Who we are

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 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

Flexible working arrangements are available. You can take advantage of an ideal combination of working remotely, from home as well as spending face-to-face time with your colleagues on a regular basis at our state-of-the-art Operations Centre (OC) located near the Perth domestic airport. You can also expect the occasional meeting at our head office located at Central Park Building in Perth CBD, with site travel required from time-to-time.

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, Rio Tinto operates the world's largest integrated portfolio of iron ore assets with industry-leading margins. Our premium product suite, including our flagship Pilbara blend, drives strong customer relationships and is supported by technical and commercial marketing expertise. The iron ore business continues to be the world's largest autonomous truck operator and a proud leader in automated mining technologies.

If this sounds like your next career path, then apply today!

Applications close on 14 February 2024 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)