Shutdown Scheduler Amrun

Rio Tinto; Weipa Town; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Annual incentive program

Comprehensive medical benefits

Share ownership plan

Salary packaging options

Career development & education support

Family health and wellbeing support

Job summary

Rio Tinto Weipa is seeking an experienced Shutdown Scheduler to join the Fixed Plant Maintenance team. You will develop, coordinate and optimise shutdown schedules for fixed plant assets, ensuring safe, efficient execution within agreed timeframes.

This role focuses on maximizing plant availability through detailed planning, stakeholder coordination and schedule management across major and minor shutdown events, with a 9-day fortnight roster.

Qualifications

• Shutdown planning and scheduling experience in mining or heavy industry.
• Scheduling experience using Project.
• Experience with SAP Maintenance Management systems.
• Strong understanding of fixed plant maintenance activities (conveyors, crushers, pumps, etc.).
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain integrated shutdown schedules using Project and SAP.
• Coordinate shutdown scopes, work packs, labour, equipment and contractors.
• Work closely with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Planning and Supply Chain teams to ensure readiness for planned shutdowns.
• Identify critical path activities and scheduling risks, implementing mitigation strategies where required.
• Monitor shutdown progress and provide daily schedule updates, reporting on performance against plan.
• Participate in shutdown planning meetings and readiness reviews.
• Analyse historical shutdown performance and incorporate lessons learned into future schedules.
• Support budgeting and resource forecasting activities for shutdown events.
• Ensure shutdown planning processes align with Rio Tinto safety standards and business procedures.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to improve shutdown duration, efficiency and cost performance.

Skills

Shutdown scheduling

Project scheduling

SAP Maintenance Management

Fixed plant maintenance

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical thinking

Excel proficiency

Education

Engineering qualification or trade background

Tools

SAP Maintenance Management

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Excel

Job description

• Be part of a diverse team that values, safety, teamwork, inclusion and respectful behaviours while delivering high value outcomes
• Enjoy a relaxed coastal lifestyle in an ideal residential environment - Weipa
• Permanent, full-time opportunity which includes attractive salary, annual incentives and a range of additional benefits designed to make your life better

We’re Finding Better Ways to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future. Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.

About The Role

We are seeking an experienced and highly organised Shutdown Scheduler to join the Fixed Plant Maintenance team at Amrun Operations. Working a 9 day fortnight roster and reporting to the Shutdown Supervisor, you will be responsible for developing, coordinating and optimising shutdown schedules for fixed plant assets, ensuring maintenance activities are executed safely, efficiently and within agreed timeframes.

This role plays a critical part in maximising plant availability and reliability through detailed planning, stakeholder coordination and schedule management across major and minor shutdown events.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain integrated shutdown schedules using Project and/or SAP.
• Coordinate shutdown scopes, work packs, labour requirements, equipment, materials and contractor activities.
• Work closely with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Planning and Supply Chain teams to ensure readiness for planned shutdowns.
• Identify critical path activities and scheduling risks, implementing mitigation strategies where required.
• Monitor shutdown progress and provide daily schedule updates, reporting on performance against plan.
• Participate in shutdown planning meetings and readiness reviews.
• Analyse historical shutdown performance and incorporate lessons learned into future schedules.
• Support budgeting and resource forecasting activities for shutdown events.
• Ensure shutdown planning processes align with Rio Tinto safety standards and business procedures.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to improve shutdown duration, efficiency and cost performance.

About You

We're looking for someone whose experience aligns with the key requirements below.

Required for Success

• Demonstrated experience in shutdown planning and scheduling within mining, minerals processing, heavy industry, oil & gas or similar environments.
• Scheduling experience using Project.
• Experience with SAP Maintenance Management systems.
• Strong understanding of fixed plant maintenance activities, including conveyors, crushers, stackers, reclaimers, pumps, ancillary equipment and export facilities.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
• Proficient Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel.

Helpful for Success

• Trade qualification, engineering qualification or relevant maintenance background.
• Experience coordinating major shutdowns in the resources sector.
• Understanding of maintenance work management processes.
• Project scheduling and planning certifications.

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)

Where you’ll be working

Rio Tinto Weipa is located 900km north-west of Cairns on the Gulf of Carpentaria and has been operating for over 50 years. Over the years, it has developed into a vibrant and diverse cultural hub of the Western Cape. Weipa offers a coastal community rich in geographical beauty and cultural heritage that provides families with opportunities to participate in leisure activities, sports and community events. With a strong sense of community, the region has plenty of natural beauty to offer including the opportunities for boating, fishing, camping and exploring. Construction of the Amrun mining operation, located 40 kilometres southwest of Weipa, was completed in late 2018 expanding our bauxite operations to continue production from one of the world’s premier bauxite deposits.

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 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 LGBTQ+ 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.