Engineer Project

Project Engineer

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Perth based opportunity with adhoc site travel required
• 5 days on, 2 days off, with occasional site visits
• Flexible working arrangements

About the Role 

We are looking for an Project Engineer to join our Rail Project Delivery team within Sustaining Capital (SC), to be responsible for project engineering through a number of Grade separation projects to deliver the civil projects of the Rail Capital plan.

Reporting to the Project Lead for Grade Separations, Sustaining capital and working in a collaborative, inclusive & diverse team; you will:

• Project manage consultants undertaking design for grade separation in line with Sustaining Capital and Main Roads requirements and in line with Rio Tinto’s company values, to achieve objectives
• Help deliver Grade Separation projects for the Rail Capital plan
• Assess consultant and project performance against project schedule to meet SC project timelines and cost
• Ensure compliance with standardized project processes, systems, and tools across SC projects.
• Manage project vendors including performance against contract deliverables
• Participate in and actively manage the risks of the projects
• Coordinate with Asset Representatives, Capital Coordinators, Project Controls, Contracts & Procurement and Stakeholders (internal & external) to provide properly scoped projects in a coordinated manner
• Prepare and review estimates, budgets, forecasts, schedules, and execution plans
• Coordinate between engineering, delivery, operations, HSE, procurement and finance
• Monitor project progress against budget and forecasted schedule
• Prepare and submit reports on project progress
• Maintain effective and on-going communications with the delivery team and contractors
• Implement the stakeholder engagement plan across grade separation projects.
• Monitor, manage, and report all relevant design changes to key stakeholders
• Collaborate with key stakeholder to drive a culture of collaboration, participation, and improvement

About you 

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Experience in project engineering with previous Rio Tinto management and/or client side EPC civil experience preferred
• Strategic thinker with a proven history on civil projects covering approvals, design, procurements and delivery
• Highly effective communication skills
• The ability to interface with internal and external stakeholders
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 – MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Working Knowledge of Archer, CPMS, the Sustaining Capital Framework and the ALIM drawing system
• Experience with approvals AR process, road design, rail and general earthworks

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, you’re 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
• Full domestic relocation assistance and heavily subsidised housing for those seeking a residential arrangement
• A competitive 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 and 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)

Where you’ll be working

Perth-based at Central Park office with ad-hoc site travel

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 supportive and inclusive community environment
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• A competitive salary package reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
• Attractive employee share scheme, extensive salary sacrifice and salary packaging options, and exclusive employee discount schemes
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

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 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.

This role is for applicants residing in or willing to permanently relocate to Western Australia. Rio Tinto offers Fly in and fly out options from Perth, our regional FIFO hubs and the opportunity to live in our residential towns where applicable.

Applications close on 29 September 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).