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SeniorAdvisorShutdownLeadingPractices

• Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities

• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits

• Apply your creativity to our huge mine datasets

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for aSeniorAdvisorShutdownLeadingPracticesto join and support our Operational ExcellenceShutdownTeam within the Pilbara Mines Operation. This role presents a fantastic opportunity for experienced personnel to lead coach and developshutdownplanners and execution teams ensuring work management processes are structured repeatable and aligned with bestpractices. You will play a key role in standardizing work development maintaining data integrity and optimizing work execution processes.

Youll 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 thePrincipal Fixed PlantShutdowns 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 bestpractices

• 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 inshutdownscheduling 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.

• Coach and mentor teams on structuredshutdownramp-down and start-up execution.

• Guide teams through permit management isolations washdowns and commissioning.

• Develop and embed ramp-down bestpractices ensuringshutdowns exit safely and efficiently.

• Act as a coaching leader helping teams troubleshoot and optimizeshutdowntransitions.

• Coach site teams and contractors on bestpracticesin scoping planning and execution of Key Works.

• Mentor teams on QA/QC frameworks ensuringshutdownreliability and execution excellence.

• Ensure adherence to quality standards minimizing rework and maximizing performance.

• Build strong partnerships with operational teams ensuring alignment betweenshutdownexecution and production ramp-up.

• Work Management / Master Data to join our CentralisedShutdownDivision drivingshutdownplanning and master data excellence across our Pilbara operations.

• This is an opportunity to lead coach and developshutdownplanners and execution teams ensuring work management processes are structured repeatable and aligned with bestpractices. 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 planningits about building strong foundations ensuring seamless execution and driving efficiency acrossshutdownworkstreams

What youll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team is vital for all roles at Rio Tinto

• As a genuine and authentic leader you will bring your engaging leadership style and ability to influence and uplift teams.

• Extensive experience inshutdownexecution 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 shut execution teams planners and schedulers.

• 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 cross multi-disciplinary groups and align scheduling efforts with execution needs while fostering collaboration. We expect you to bring your passion for field presence and curiosity.

• A current Australian C class drivers license

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

• 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 lifes reasons (vacation/annual paid parental personal & cultural leave)

• Exclusive employee discounts (banking accommodation cars retail and more)

• Possible domestic relocation assistance

Applications close on Tuesday 20th of January 2026 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date) #gts

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.