Superintendent Planning & Scheduling

• The role is open to Residential and FIFO opportunity

• Take the next steps in your career with a company that is committed to your growth and development

• Join a workplace where safety is paramount, collaboration is encouraged, and every voice is valued.

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 are seeking a Superintendent Planning & Scheduling to lead a team of professionals supporting the sustainable, reliable, and safe operation of fixed plant assets through effective work and shutdown management. You will bring strong technical capability in asset management, together with excellent partnering and leadership skills.
 

Reporting to the Maintenance Planning & Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Leading, coaching, and developing the Planning & Scheduling team

• Supporting delivery of asset performance through effective work and shutdown management processes

• Supporting delivery of asset management process conformance

• Ensuring cost-efficient planning, scheduling, and resource utilisation

• Managing ZBB, Capex, and Opex budgets and forecasting

• Collaborating closely with other functions and stakeholders in the performance of duties

• Maintaining Asset Management and Strategic Asset Management Improvement Plans

• Managing risk, through programs including Risk and Assurance Forum (RaAF), Asset Integrity Assessment (AIA), and Critical Risk Assessment (CRA)

• Fostering a culture of continuous improvement by identifying, evaluating, and implementing improvement opportunities utilising Rio Tinto best practices

What you’ll bring

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• A strong background in safety and people leadership roles

• Respect for others and an all-inclusive mindset

• Demonstrated capability in coaching, leading change, and effective decision-making

• Strong time and team performance management skills

• Ability to collaboratively enable effectiveness to safely optimise productivity, build organisational excellence, capability, and improvement

• A strong background in work management and shutdown management

• Understanding of financial management principles

• Applied systems knowledge (e.g., SAP, Prometheus, Enablon, and others)

• Current C Class Driver's Licence (manual)

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

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)  

• Work on Country with a residential role which offers company housing and financial support with living expenses including rent and utilities (power and water)

• 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

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

Where you’ll be working
 

This role is based at Cape Lambert, WA. Our integrated operations, which include port facilities, ensure we can supply the right quality product to our customers, when they need it. We blend our products at our own ports, which allows us to produce a reliable and consistent product. And because we have dedicated shipping operations, we are able to better control the delivery of product to our customers.

Applications close on 28th of January 2026 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

About Rio Tinto

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 situations and meet opportunities.

Respect and Inclusion

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 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.

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