Specialist Planning and Scheduling

Specialist Planning & Scheduling

• Build your career with a global organisation that values your development

• 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

The opportunity

The Resource Development (ResDev)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 theSpecialist Planning & Schedulingis responsible for the Governance and delivery of the quarterly planning and reconciliation processes and routine of earthworks drilling and rehabilitation operations to ensure effective operational and drill plans.

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 plan and annual plan.

• Maintains collaboration between the different technical disciplines and operations team to ensure quarterly plans developed are effective for execution.

• Delivers regular schedule baselines to check program status and provide recovery plan scenarios for leadership endorsement.

• Flight and Accommodation forecasting completed and constraints managed/escalated accordingly

• Ensures compliance with all permit requirements and issue information to operations teams.

• 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 and scheduling processes systems and tools.

What youll bring:

To be successfully considered for this role you will demonstrate:

• Experience working in integrated schedules (preferably Primavera P6)

• 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.

• Experience in delivering mine plans with a engineering background

• 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 youve 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 lifes reasons (vacation/annual paid parental personal 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 youll 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 1700 kilometre rail network and related infrastructure all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand.

We are one of the worlds leading producers and exporters of iron ore.

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

Applications close on15 December 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 cant do it on our own so were focused on creating partnerships to solve problems create win-win situations and meet opportunities.

Respect and Inclusion

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.