• Great opportunity to network, collaborate and partner with our mining operations and maintenance planning professionals
• Perth based with flexible working
• Great benefits

We have a rare and exciting opportunity for an experienced maintenance planning and budgeting leader to lead the Heavy Mobile Equipment Specialist planning team, focussed on improving systems and capability. You’ll be deploying processes to enhance our long-term planning and budgeting processes and increase value delivery across Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s (RTIO) 16 mines.
Our maintenance planning and engineering services team operates as a centralised function for our RTIO operational partners and as the Superintendent Specialist Planning, you will lead a team of Specialist planners, each accountable for the delivery of specific Asset Class long-term plans, shut forecasts and budgets to our mining operations across the Pilbara.
You’ll need to utilise your outstanding ability to partner with a variety of internal and external stakeholders including site based operational and maintenance leaders, finance and risk advisors, and asset management service providers to deliver outcomes that optimise cost and risk to meet prevailing business objectives.

With support from the Manager Asset Planning, your role will:

• Oversee and build strategic long-term asset class budgets and forecasts that optimise risk while meeting business objectives
• Work closely with engineering teams and sites to ensure that the long-term maintenance plans align with the standardised whole of life cost models
• Liaise with logistics and asset health teams to ensure that long-lead items and resources are provisioned and budgeted
• Work closely with operations and site short term planning teams to enable the operationalization of long-term plans and budgets into short term and shut plans at a quarterly cadence
• Analyse maintenance plans to identify improvement opportunities and work with asset data, engineering and finance teams throughout the change management process
• Manages strategic direction and governance on cost control standards for the annual budgeting ZBB process.
• Integrate the long-term plans for each operation into their respective maintenance shutdown calendars
• Optimise our Maintenance Strategies across sites and within Asset Classes
• Identify cost reduction measures within the business
• Provide input into the asset performance and planning process regarding Fixed Asset Schedule Loss forecasts and optimization
• Deliver the annual labour forecasting budget from primary maintenance hours

In addition to the above, you will also play a role in contributing to the continuous improvement of the long-term planning and Whole of life asset and life cycle cost processes, in collaboration with our engineering, operations and vendor partners.