Superintendent Planning - Long Term
Rio Tinto
Superintendent Planning -Long Term
Drive change, innovation with a strategic focus on long term planning
Supportive team culture with a focus on inclusion, safety and work life balance
Perth based permanent position
About the role
Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.We are looking for a motivated Superintendent Planning -Long Term accountable for leading and supporting a team of professionals responsible for the long-term planning of drilling operations and other key enablers of drill programs, within the broader Resource Development Planning team.
We’ll support and empower you to challenge yourself, learn from others, share your own ideas freely and achieve excellence in strategic and leadership outcomes.
You’ll manage your own team of professionals, and work with key stakeholders across Resource Development, developing a long term planning strategy.
Reporting to the Manager Planning, you will also be responsible for:
Developing your team’s capability through ongoing coaching and mentoring, structured training, and support.
Owning, standardising and driving continuous improvement of our long term planning standards and working collaboratively to benchmark and adopt best practices.
Maintaining robust and timely collaboration between the different technical disciplines as well as sustaining capital, approvals and heritage teams to support the delivery of drill programs that support studies and sustain mines.
Planning and supervising the work of your professional team to develop long term drill plans and other enabling plans to support drill programs over the years.
Demonstrating the Rio Tinto values of courage, care, and curiosity.
If you are excited about this role and think you have what it takes but your experience doesn't align 100%, we still want to hear from you.
We are committed to promoting diversity within Rio Tinto and as a special measure to we strongly encourage women to apply.
What you will bring
We’d love for you to bring with you a genuine passion for sharing your planning knowledge, developing teams, and improving efficiencies.
Your success in this role will be greatly assisted by:
Prior experience in a similar role, with proven team leadership capability.
Well-developed problem-solving capability and drive for continuous improvement.
Working collaboratively with all stakeholders to plan and enable drilling programs over a 10 year period.
Ensuring critical communication of milestones for plan inputs & delivery occurs as well as governs process followed by all technical teams.
Ensuring the integrated schedule is updated, maintained and handed over to Short Term Planning & Scheduling through the annual plan process.
Proven experience in Arc GIS and Primavera P6
Your ability to identify trends, underlying business impacts and present information in a clear, compelling manner
What we offer
Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you have 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.
Where you will be working
You and your team will be Perth based with opportunity to work flexibly from home combined with time in our Central Park offices. Our wider team is spread across a combination of Perth and Pilbara Resource Development sites.
Applications close on 20 October 2025 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).
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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.
