Short Term Planner

Short Term Planner

• Unique and dynamic role working across a diverse range of projects
• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
• 5/2, 4/3 FIFO family friendly roster from Perth to Brockman, Great Nammuldi

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 different.   

At Rio Tinto, we 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 are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Short-Term Planner to join our team in the Greater Nammuldi region to help us excel at safely maintaining our site services & dewatering assets through effective preparation and delivery of maintenance schedules.

This is a great opportunity for enthusiastic individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is seeking a rewarding role.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

Reporting to the Senior planner and working in a dynamic and exciting environment you will be responsible for:

• Detail planning of jobs in SAP, capturing improvement changes, developing estimations of resource requirements and ordering materials
• Prioritising work with the Supervisors, Superintendents and external departments, utilising your considerable stakeholder and relationship building skills
• Developing and refining the scheduled outage forecast for designated site working with site and the central teams to optimise and manage business impact
• Ability to think outside the box to safely reduced shutdown duration where possible
• Understand & work with LTP’s in Zero Based Budget development
• Work closely with a variety of stakeholders across the organisation to identifying and implementing opportunities for continuous improvement and ensure there is effective communication of the plans to ensure appropriate risk management strategies are in place

What you’ll bring    

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Proven experience using SAP
• Experience with executing, scheduling, or planning the maintenance activities
• Knowledge in Microsoft Office (Project and Excel)
• Current Australian C Class Driver’s License
• Exceptional communication & collaboration skills
• Able to be proactive, flexible, and work independently
• Highly organised individual with great record keeping
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills
• Complex problem-solving skills and able to deliver solutions

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.   

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  
• 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, read more about the huge range of benefits here: https://bit.ly/43AQLue   

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 will be working 

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, Rio Tinto operates the world’s largest integrated portfolio of iron ore assets with industry-leading performance and technology. Our iron ore business continues to be the world’s largest autonomous truck operator and a proud leader in automated mining technologies. 

This role is offered as an 5/2, 4/3 family friendly FIFO roster from Perth to Brockman, Greater Nammuldi.

Ready to experience something unique? Come work with us.

Applications close on 21st June 2024 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).