Corporate Counsel

Corporate Counsel, Pilbara Operations

• Work in a collaborative high-performing environment where success is achieved by working together
• Great exposure in supporting one of Australia’s leading businesses
• Opportunity to shape our strategy and outcomes based on knowledge and experience
• Permanent full time role based in Perth

About the role 

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Corporate Counsel to join Rio Tinto Legal in supporting Rio Tinto’s Pilbara Operations.

To be successful in this role you will;

• Deliver high quality, independent and timely legal advice and support to Rio Tinto’s operations in Western Australia across a wide variety of aspects that are of corporate, commercial and operational significance
• Supporting commercial teams including business development, joint ventures, social performance, operations and a diverse range of commercial contracts and arrangements
• Coordinate and engage with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders
• Supporting tenure, approvals and land access arrangements, including proceedings before the Wardens Court
• Liaising with the APAC Litigation team and Group Risk Finance in supporting litigation and disputes
• Provide cost effective engagement and management of external counsel
• Support internal reporting as well as governance and compliance functions and frameworks.

About you

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• At least 5 years’ experience as a practicing lawyer, preferably with experience in natural resources
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with a broad range of stakeholders
• Tertiary Qualification in Bachelor of Law or equivalent and must hold a current legal practicing certificate

Where you’ll be working

Rio Tinto Legal provide legal services and expertise to the Rio Tinto Group, including corporate headquarters, operating business units and service divisions. Working to the highest standards collaboratively across the globe, Rio Tinto Legal also supports policy development.

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 competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees & 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)
• Domestic re-location if required

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.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ 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. 

Apply today if you want to work with respected and high performing legal team, in an environment where we support each other drive positive change. 

Applications close on 27 January 2023. (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

Rio Tinto does not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruiters or employment agencies. Rio Tinto will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee relating to unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles. Rio Tinto reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Rio Tinto.