• Residential role, be part of the friendly community in Wickham

• Housing, relocation and extensive benefits on offer

• The perfect balance, our roster gives you more time for the things that are important in your life and to your family and community.

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 looking for a Resource Planner to support the planning and coordination of Network Locomotive Driver and Train Examiner resources to meet operational requirements and deliver safe rail production outcomes. Reporting to the Specialist Production, you will be working a 5/2, 4/3 roster and managing operational rosters and workforce availability. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys solving planning challenges and contributing to safe, reliable rail operations.

What you’ll be doing
 

Reporting to the Specialist Production and working with Rail Operations leaders, logistics and travel teams, you will:

• Develop, maintain and publish operational rosters to ensure adequate workforce coverage for rail production and project commitments.

• Monitor workforce availability and identify resource constraints, escalating critical shortages and recommending solutions to minimise operational impacts.

• Partner with Rail Operations supervisors and superintendents to manage roster changes, workforce requirements and execution risks.

• Coordinate flights, accommodation and travel requirements for rostered employees and supervisors across multiple locations.

About you
 

We’re looking for someone whose experience aligns with the key requirements below. You do not need to meet every “helpful for success” item to apply. If you bring relevant experience and are excited by the opportunity, we encourage you to submit an application.
 

Required for Success

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.

• Experience in workforce planning, resource planning, scheduling, rostering, or a related operational planning role.

• Experience balancing competing priorities and coordinating resources within a dynamic operational environment.

• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to work collaboratively with leaders, supervisors and operational teams to resolve workforce planning challenges.

• Experience identifying and managing operational risks, constraints and workforce availability issues to support business outcomes.

• Proficiency in planning and rostering systems, along with strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel.

• Strong communication and organisational skills with the ability to influence outcomes and provide clear recommendations to stakeholders.
   

Helpful for Success

• Experience within rail, mining, logistics, heavy industry, or another safety-critical operational environment.

• Knowledge of fatigue management requirements, enterprise agreements, or workforce compliance obligations.

• Experience coordinating travel, accommodation or mobilisation requirements for operational workforces.

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 and salary packaging options

• Career development and 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, including vacation or annual, paid parental, personal and cultural leave

• Exclusive employee discounts across banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more

• Possible domestic relocation assistance
   

Where you’ll be working
 

Our integrated operations, which include port facilities, ensure we can supply the right quality product to our customers when they need it. We blend our products at our own ports, which allows us to produce a reliable and consistent product. And because we have dedicated shipping operations, we are able to better control the delivery of product to our customers. We operate four independent shipping terminals at two locations, Cape Lambert and Dampier, managed as a single port system. Cape Lambert has two terminals, Cape Lambert A and B, with approximately four ships loaded per day.

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.