Senior Planner

Senior Planner – Maintenance Planning

Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion Developing role where you can take ownership to drive work management processes for Boyne Smelters Limited Showcase your passion for leading others in this dynamic role developing and supporting a multi-disciplined technical team.

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Senior Planner to lead a team accountable for safely maintaining our assets through effective preparation and delivery of maintenance planning and scheduling.

This role presents a fantastic opportunity to draw on your people leadership skills and technical knowledge. Positively develop and support your team; enabling operational, quality and budget requirements to be met, whilst driving safety excellence and positive team culture.

Your demonstrated ability to engage, connect and positively influence will prove valuable to the effectiveness of this role. You will partner with operational and other key stakeholders to provide efficient maintenance planning and productivity solutions and ensuring best practice work management processes are understood and adhered to.

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 Superintendent Maintenance Planning, you will be working in a challenging and exciting environment within the Boyne Smelters Maintenance Planning Team:

What you’ll bring

A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team Leadership experience and confidence in leading, developing, and coaching team members Experience in a trade or engineering role in a maintenance environment or equivalent similar planning role Experience with CMMS/SAP for budget development, resource levelling and related tasks Experience in preparing annual budgets and costs management Demonstrated ability in meeting targets and bringing the team on a journey of continuous development Demonstrated complex problem-solving abilities to deliver solutions across an operation Strong data and risk analysis and statistics skills Knowledge of asset inventory life cycles A highly organised, structured & detailed approach to planning with a strong commitment to safety. Well-developed communication skills via all mediums with the ability to negotiate positive outcomes across multiple stakeholders.

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 program 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) Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more) Possible domestic relocation assistance

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 and meet opportunities.

Where you’ll be working

Boyne Smelters Limited is Australia’s second largest aluminium smelter with a 1,000-person strong workforce. Located approximately 20km south east of Gladstone at Boyne Island on the Central Queensland coast, BSL produces around 500,000 tonnes of aluminium per annum.

Activities at BSL include manufacturing carbon anodes in the carbon plant, aluminium production (smelting) in reduction lines, and casting of molten material into aluminium products ready to ship. The smelter is connected via a conveyor belt to the Queensland Alumina Limited refinery for the supply of alumina.

BSL is committed to protecting the environment and ensuring safe work practices where people feel safe at work and care for each other.

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