Superintendent Planning
Rio Tinto
Great opportunity to network, collaborate and partner with our mining operations and maintenance planning professionals
Perth based with flexible working
Great benefits
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
We have a rare and exciting opportunity for an experienced maintenance planning and budgeting leader to lead the Heavy Mobile Equipment Specialist planning team, focussed on improving systems and capability. You’ll be deploying processes to enhance our long-term planning and budgeting processes and increase value delivery across Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s (RTIO) 16 mines.
Our maintenance planning and engineering services team operates as a centralised function for our RTIO operational partners and as the Superintendent Specialist Planning, you will lead a team of Specialist planners, each accountable for the delivery of specific Asset Class long-term plans, shut forecasts and budgets to our mining 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 outcomes that optimise cost and risk to meet prevailing business objectives.
With support from the Manager Asset Planning, your role will:
Oversee and build strategic long-term asset class budgets and forecasts that optimise risk while meeting business objectives
Work closely with engineering teams and sites to ensure that the long-term maintenance plans align with the standardised whole of life cost models
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 the operationalization of long-term plans and budgets into short term and shut plans at a quarterly cadence
Analyse maintenance plans to identify improvement opportunities and work with asset data, engineering and finance teams throughout the change management process
Manages strategic direction and governance on cost control standards for the annual budgeting ZBB process.
Integrate the long-term plans for each operation into their respective maintenance shutdown calendars
Optimise our Maintenance Strategies across sites and within Asset Classes
Identify cost reduction measures within the business
Provide input into the asset performance and planning process regarding Fixed Asset Schedule Loss forecasts and optimization
Deliver the annual labour forecasting budget from primary maintenance hours
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.
What you’ll bring
You are an experienced maintenance planning leader and are excited by the challenge of working across an operation of this scale and complexity. You will have working experience of mineral processing and Heavy Mobile Equipment assets. You will have excellent stakeholder engagement skills and a solid understanding of planning and budgeting processes 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 a similar function in other related industries; including but not limited to defence, aviation, construction and other resource sectors.
Experience working in maintenance planning
Expertise in reliability concepts
Leadership experience
Advanced problem-solving techniques
Knowledge of data analysis tools
Knowledge of work management processes
Excellent communication skills and effective stakeholder management
A proactive approach with a commitment to driving a safe and inclusive team culture
C Class driver’s licence
If you are enthusiastic about the position and believe you possess the necessary qualifications, we encourage you to apply even if your experience does not entirely align with the job requirements.
We are committed to promoting diversity within Rio Tinto and as a special measure to we strongly encourage women to apply.
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
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, sick leave)
Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
Possible domestic relocation assistance
Where you’ll 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.
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.
