Project Manager
- High-impact leadership role ensuring alignment across workstreams and guiding leadership in making timely, strategic decisions
- Permanent, full-time opportunity located in Brisbane
About the role
Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead and coordinate multiple streams of work for matters based in Papua New Guinea and Brisbane.
Reporting to the Project Director, you’ll operate across multiple locations, managing the increased risks and heightened output demands. You’ll ensure seamless alignment across all workstreams, integrating different technical and functional considerations into the process control of engagement. This will require significant review and coordination to maintain alignment.
You will also be responsible for facilitating decision-making by senior leadership, coordinating forums and timelines to ensure timely resolutions. In addition to navigating internal governance structures, you will manage commitments and ensure internal alignment across all levels of the business. This will involve coordinating various briefings, presentations, and governance activities. Furthermore, you'll engage and collaborate with subject matter experts, including areas like Communications, Legal, Risk, Procurement, and Health Safey and Environment, to ensure comprehensive project oversight and alignment.
We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.
What you’ll bring
- A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
- Extensive experience in closure planning and/or closure studies, including planning and delivery of progressive closure projects
- Proven experience in managing complex, multistream projects within a matrix organization
- Strong leadership skills with a focus on risk management, governance, and stakeholder alignment
- Ability to navigate complex internal and external governance frameworks
- Stakeholder engagement skills working across cross-functional teams and locations
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)
- Possible domestic relocation assistance
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 and meet opportunities.
Where you’ll be working
Rio Tinto Closure safely transforms Rio Tinto’s end of life mining, processing and infrastructure assets by developing innovative and sustainable solutions to leave a positive closure legacy. We collaborate with all parts of Rio Tinto to focus on maximizing post operational opportunities, de-risking and reducing the scale of closure liabilities and executing existing and near term closures at optimal cost.
Every Voice Matters
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.
Applications close on Friday the 18th of October 2024 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)