Senior Planning Specialist

5 days ago


Perth, Western Australia RioTinto Full time
About the Role

This is a challenging and rewarding opportunity to join our team as a Specialist Planner. As a key member of our Operations team, you will be responsible for scheduling, optimizing, enabling, resourcing, and forecasting the Resource Development drill program.

You will work closely with technical disciplines and operations teams to ensure that quarterly plans are developed and executed effectively. Your expertise in planning and scheduling principles, practices, and scenario planning will be essential in delivering high-quality results.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and communicate quality quarterly plans for earthworks, drilling, and rehabilitation to operations and technical scope owners.
  • Collaborate with technical disciplines and operations teams to ensure optimized quarterly plans are effective for execution.
  • Deliver regular schedule baselines and provide recovery plan scenarios for leadership.
  • Maintain planning routines that support execution and reconciliation of actuals (daily site scheduling, 2-week plan, and quarterly plan).
  • Manage operations requests, ensuring guidance is provided to operational teams that delivers compliance against permit conditions.
What You'll Bring
  • Experience coaching and mentoring team members in planning and scheduling practices and systems.
  • Experience in Primavera (P6).
  • Expertise in planning and scheduling principles, practices, scenario planning, and recovery plans.
  • Solid problem-solving and analytical skills.
  • Good understanding of operational environment and productivity drivers.
  • Solid communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries, producing iron ore, copper, aluminum, 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.

We're committed to promoting diversity within Rio Tinto 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.



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