Corporate Counsel, Aluminium

Corporate Counsel, Aluminium

• Australia-Pacific regional responsibilities working on complex issues within a high performing team
• Permanent full-time role based in Brisbane

About the role

We are looking for a Corporate Counsel to join our team and help provide legal support and strategic advice to the Rio Tinto Aluminium (RTA) product group across a broad range of matters. This role is part of the legal team supporting RTA’s Pacific Operations. This role will have the opportunity to be involved in matters across different assets and operations in the Australia-Pacific region.

This role involves:

• Providing timely, accurate and commercial legal advice on commercial, regulatory and operational issues relating to RTA Pacific Operations to support delivery of the business plan and safeguard its business interests and reputation.
• Advising on various joint venture and power supply arrangements/transactions (including decarbonisation and renewable energy initiatives) within the portfolio of assets.
• Reporting to the Chief Counsel RTA Pacific Operations, you will be part of a high performing legal team and the broader Rio Tinto Legal function.

It requires:

• High quality legal skills and commercial acumen to support the operations, commercial projects and opportunities.
• Managing and prioritising multiple matters effectively.
• The ability to develop and maintain close, collaborative, working relationships with colleagues, including internal clients, fellow team members within the Australian and global RTA Legal team, and colleagues within related functions.
• Managing external legal resources in strategic and cost-effective ways.

What You’ll Bring

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

• A law degree and post qualification experience as a legal practitioner of at least 8 years in-house or at a top-tier law firm.
• Resource and energy experience highly desirable.

• Excellent communication, writing and drafting skills.

• Strong commercial acumen and solution driven, with the ability to identify solutions and negotiate commercial outcomes.

• Demonstrated ability to develop strong working relationships, including the ability to work collaborately within a matrix organisation and multi-disciplinary project teams.
• Effective time management and personal organisational skills.

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
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Domestic re-location if required

The team you will be joining

Rio Tinto Legal is responsible for providing legal services to the highest standard to the Rio Tinto Group, including headquarters, operating business units and service divisions. It also provides policy development and advice in the area of legal matters which are within its core competencies. As a Business we operate in a collaborative manner globally and within regions in order to share knowledge and best practice and achieve a consistent approach amongst the Group’s lawyers (including the lawyers in shared resources centres such as London, Melbourne, Montreal, Perth and Salt Lake City and the lawyers embedded within business units).

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 want you to be you. We want everyone, everywhere, to feel their voice is heard and respected and we’re committed to fostering a culture where individual differences—whatever they may be—are appreciated and valued. It’s what makes us safer, more productive, improves our decision-making, and helps us to create better relationships with our communities. 

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the LGBTI+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds. 

Apply today if you want to work with the latest technology and innovation, in an environment where we support you to drive positive change.

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for a role you must complete all pre-screening questions and medicals.

Applications close on Friday 2 December 2022.(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.