Advisor Tenure Management & Strategy

Advisor Tenure Management and Strategy

• Integral part of a high performing team
• Perm Full Time | Perth based | Competitive salary and benefits

About the role

We are looking for an Advisor Tenure Management and Strategy to join the Tenure & GIS team within Rio Tinto. This role will assist with ensuring land tenure assets are managed effectively to ensure security and to enable the continued growth of Rio Tinto’s business within Western Australia.

This role is a great opportunity for a highly motivated individual who can work independently within a team environment to manage multiple tasks and projects, maintain flexibility to adapt to changing business conditions and work collaboratively with other business units.

Reporting to the Superintendent Tenure Management and Strategy and working Monday to Friday based in our Perth hub at Central Park you will be responsible for:

• Ensuring strict compliance with legislative requirements as well as internal governance requirements, including managing the tenure obligations database, monitoring and recording compliance with deadlines, along with preparing monthly reports
• Liaising with relevant stakeholders to determine the tenure requirements to support the needs of the business and making applications for these in compliance with statutory requirements and time constraints
• Engaging with relevant internal and external stakeholders, including the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety and the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage as well as fostering relationships with technical and support staff to ensure timely receipt of supporting documentation
• Reviewing and lodging statutory documents and correspondence relating to tenure obligations
• Providing project support including advice and pragmatic solutions to tenure issues, related negotiations and strategy
• Complying with all HSEQ systems; facilitating, chairing of and contributing to team and safety meetings
• Assisting with ad hoc project work as required

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• A strong understanding of Western Australia’s land tenure statutory reporting requirements.
• Demonstrated understanding and good working knowledge of both the Mining Act 1978 and Land Administration Act 1997.
• Proven ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships with internal stakeholders and external government departments.
• Strong attention to detail, excellent interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills and the ability to understand complex issues in order to develop well-reasoned analysis and deliver solutions or recommendations.
• Project management skills and skills in system development and improvements.
• Flexible and adaptive approach to fluctuating workloads, priorities and supporting other team members.
• Experience in a professional discipline such as government relations or related tertiary study is preferred but not essential.
• Experience using Mineral Titles Online, WAMEX, LANGATE, TENGRAPH or ArcGIS will be an advantage

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
• Flexible working from home arrangements as per operational requirements
• 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)

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers. 

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers – generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress. 

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe.

Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life. 

Where you’ll be working

Perth based but with a working focus on supporting operations in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own an integrated portfolio of iron ore assets supported by functional teams in the Perth hub: a world-class, integrated network of 16 mines, four independent port terminals, a 1,700 kilometre rail network and related infrastructure – all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand.

Every Voice Matters

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.

Applications close on 16 October 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)