Operations Planner

Operations Planner – Perth

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• Diversity is our strength. Bring your unique skills, experiences and perspectives to help our teams to thrive

• Permanent role | Perth based offering great work/life balance

About The Role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

The Resource Development planning and scheduling team are responsible for tactical and strategic drill planning, which includes scheduling of our exploration drilling and earthworks operations across the annual to daily planning horizon.

Reporting to the Superintendent Short-term Planning, the Operations Planner is responsible for the Governance and delivery of the 2 week planning and reconciliation processes for earthworks, drilling and rehabilitation operations.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Develop, own and effectively communicate quality short term execution schedules (2 weekly) for earthworks, drilling and rehabilitation to operations and technical scope owners.

• Facilitate robust routines and reporting functionality to assist in inputting, aligning, measuring, conforming and reconciling 2-week monthly production schedules.

• Facilitate and coordinate the escalation matrix for critical hold/decision points for plan execution.

• Foster relationship with site schedulers and align quarterly production plans ensuring our activities are included within the Pilbara mines 2-week execution plan

• Ensure flights and accommodation inputs are understood and confirmed for execution of the 2-week plan

• Accommodation forecasting completed and constraints managed/escalated accordingly

• Effectively manage interface and inputs from Site Scheduler to ensure inputting of actual time and physicals into Primavera 6 ResDev schedule occurs daily

• Foster a plan-do-check-act culture in ResDev with particular focus on driving conformance to plan, tracking drivers of variation, incorporating improvement to future plans and driving the standardisation of leading practice in planning processes, systems and tools.

What you’ll bring:

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

• Experience working in integrated schedules (preferably Primavera P6)

• Previous experience delivering short term plans preferably in a mine environment

• Sound knowledge of planning and scheduling practices

• Good understanding of operational environment and productivity drivers

• Solid analytical, and problem solving skills

• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to effectively influence, collaborate and negotiate

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.

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

Where you’ll be working

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own an integrated portfolio of iron ore assets: a world-class, integrated network of 16 mines, four independent port terminals, a 1,700 kilometre rail network and related infrastructure – all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand.

This will be a Perth based role at our Central Park office in Perth CBD.

Applications close on 19 March 2025 (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.

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.