Senior Advisor Shutdown Leading Practices

Senior Advisor Shutdown Leading Practices

• Play your part in Rio Tinto’s Iron Ore transition to shutdown excellence
• Career-defining opportunity to drive continuous improvement in a new division
• Flexibility for the lifestyle you want – 8 days on, 6 days off roster Fly in; fly out opportunities from Perth, Busselton

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for Senior Advisor Shutdown Leading Practices

to join and support our Operational Excellence Shutdown Team within the Pilbara Mines Operation. This role presents a fantastic opportunity for experienced personnel to lead, coach, and develop shutdown planners and execution teams, ensuring work management processes are structured, repeatable, and aligned with best practices. You will play a key role in standardizing work development, maintaining data integrity, and optimizing work execution processes.

You’ll work 8 days on, 6 days off roster which will give you more time to spend on the things that are important to you and the people in your life. 

Reporting to the Principal Fixed Plant Shutdowns, you will:

• Adhere to all Rio Tinto standards, policies and procedures
• Actively foster and communicate a positive safety culture to promote safety awareness and compliance, encouraging prioritisation of safety in all activities and operations
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by identifying, evaluating and implementing improvement opportunities utilising a range of Rio Tinto best practices
• Ensure all mining activities undertaken are in compliance with all relevant statutory regulations and RTIO standards and policies
• As a genuine and authentic leader, you will bring your engaging leadership style and ability to influence and uplift teams.
• Extensive experience in shutdown scheduling, planning, or project scheduling.
• A strategic mindset with the ability to optimize schedules and align priorities.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills, with a passion for coaching planners and schedulers.
• Experience in critical path analysis, schedule management, and creative mindset that keeps all aspects of a safe and executable schedule in mind.
• A proven ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders across multi-disciplinary groups and align scheduling efforts with execution needs while fostering collaboration.
• Coach and mentor teams on structured shutdown ramp-down and start-up execution.
• Guide teams through permit management, isolations, washdowns, and commissioning.
• Develop and embed ramp-down best practices, ensuring shutdowns exit safely and efficiently.
• Act as a coaching leader, helping teams troubleshoot and optimize shutdown transitions.
• Coach site teams and contractors on best practices in scoping, planning, and execution of Key Works.
• Mentor teams on QA/QC frameworks, ensuring shutdown reliability and execution excellence.
• Ensure adherence to quality standards, minimizing rework and maximizing performance.
• Build strong partnerships with operational teams, ensuring alignment between shutdown execution and production ramp-up.
• Work Management / Master Data to join our Centralised Shutdown Division, driving shutdown planning and master data excellence across our Pilbara operations.
• This is an opportunity to lead, coach, and develop shutdown planners and execution teams, ensuring work management processes are structured, repeatable, and aligned with best practices. You will play a key role in standardizing work development, maintaining data integrity, and optimizing work execution processes.
• This role is about more than just managing work planning—it’s about building strong foundations, ensuring seamless execution, and driving efficiency across shutdown workstreams

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team is vital for all roles at Rio Tinto
• As a genuine and authentic leader, you will bring your engaging leadership style and ability to influence and uplift teams.
• Extensive experience in shutdown execution, scheduling, planning, or project scheduling.
• A strategic mindset with the ability to optimize schedules and align priorities.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills, with a passion for coaching shut execution teams, planners and schedulers.
• Experience in critical path analysis, schedule management, and creative mindset that keeps all aspects of a safe and executable schedule in mind.
• A proven ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders cross multi-disciplinary groups and align scheduling efforts with execution needs while fostering collaboration. We expect you to bring your passion for field presence and curiosity.
• A current Australian ‘C’ class driver's license

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 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

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own a world-class, integrated network of 17 mines, four independent port terminals, a rail network spanning nearly 2,000 kilometres and related infrastructure – all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand. We are one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of iron ore.

Ready to experience something unique? Come work with us.

Applications close on 16 May 2025 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)

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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.

Every Voice Matters

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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