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 a 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, schedulers and Shut execution leaders
• 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.
• Act as a coaching leader, helping teams troubleshoot and optimize shutdown transitions.
• 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