Description:
Ausjobz is a WA owned and operated recruitment specialist connecting employers with great Australian talent. We are a preferred recruitment partner with a number of leading mining, engineering, construction and utility companies.
We have positions open for experienced Short-Term Planners and Schedulers to work with the sustaining capital team of our client Rio Tinto. Planners will be responsible for developing and maintaining executable work orders aligned to the maintenance strategy, asset condition, business and long-term plans and monitor planned vs actual costs. Schedulers will be responsible for developing an executable schedule for weekly major shuts based on the maintenance and life of asset strategy.
Short Term Planners
Key responsibilities of the Planning roles include:
- Review approved notifications and prioritise non urgent tasks
- Estimate labour requirements and equipment downtime.
- Review maintenance history, damage, cause, functional failure to ensure accurate data capture and updates are provided by maintenance team where appropriate
- Identify maintenance strategy inefficiencies and manage changes.
- Develop basis of Schedule documents as per company template.
- Review work in required schedule period taking into consideration (Asset criticality, statutory work, warranty, repairable / rotable, severity and safety impact) inclusive of project maintenance work.
- Identify any potential scope conflict and repackage the activities, amending duration of required down-time when necessary
- Arrange specialised external contractors / suppliers (for Planner-driven work) and commence CMS to engage
- Update and maintain resource loading to ensure accommodation forecast can be issued weekly.
- Review and analyse contractors' schedules and report on non-compliance against the schedule.
- Attend monthly review meetings and identify the consequences of deviations from the plan.
- Conduct site visits to validate progress, forecast dates and make any agreed changes.
- Review progress and performance trend information to develop internal assessment of project completion and advise project team of any deviance form the initial plan.
- Ensure Schedules are aligned with the estimate and make allowances for growth and contingency.
Schedulers
Key responsibilities of the Scheduling roles include:
- Review internal and external labour, and equipment available capacity
- Review material availabilities and status
- Develop draft/first cut maintenance schedule (critical path*, task interactions, labour requirements, materials, shared equipment and tooling) for review
- Engage and arrange external contractors / suppliers (Generalist/Top-up) and maintain availabilities (CR12)
- Confirm and lock shared equipment required for scheduled period
- Confirm any schedule loss events are aligned to the planned events, and update key stakeholders and business systems (MSF) on any exceptions.
- Confirm material and update delivery location and trigger expediting of parts where required
- Liaise with execution leaders to confirm upcoming resource availability
- Identify critical issues - approvals, major lead time items, cores, resources, accommodation etc. Work with stakeholders to resolve
- Collects and collates work management data for review and identification of improvement actions
- Re-schedule uncompleted task / operation (include following rescheduling of cores process) from current maintenance week (due to no identified planning issues).
- Closeout any raised Contractor requirements including invoicing and payments in consolation with the execution team
About You
To be considered for this role you will ideally have:
- Relevant experience in a sustaining capital planning role ideally in the mining industry.
- Intermediate/Advanced use of P6 and Excel.
- Knowledge of Rio Tinto systems and processes preferred
- Well-developed stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
- The ability to manage multiple projects concurrently.
- Positive "can-do" attitude.
- Attention to detail.
This role is Perth based working 4O hours per week on a 12-month contract initially. These roles are open to Planner Schedulers with 0-3, 4-6 and 7+ years years experience. Multiple role available on rates ranging from $80 to $110 per hour based on experience.
For further information please contact Kevin Hopkins on 0417351099.