Manager Engineering Geoscience

Manager Engineering Geoscience - Perth

• Be a part of an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development

• Excellent opportunity to shape your career within Mine Technical Services

• Perth based role with agile flexibility options, regular travel to the Pilbara

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

This is a great opportunity to join our senior leadership team as Manager Engineering Geoscience and play a critical role managing the delivery of geotechnical designs, including studies work that enables safe and productive operations. We’re looking for an experienced leader to help build on our success and focus on the next level of safety, efficiency and productivity benefits across iron ore operations. You will be leading a team of technical professionals specialising in short and long term geotechnical design programs, geotechnical assessments on all excavated slopes as well as managing and reducing major hazard risk and embedding and improving first line assurance. 

This role allows a significant opportunity to learn and grow partnership skills, understand the wider business context and influence material paradigm shifts in our operating strategy. With safety at the forefront of everything you do, we will empower and support you to achieve excellence in technical and commercial outcomes. We’ll also provide opportunities to challenge yourself, learn from others, share your own ideas and champion an inclusive approach towards leading your team.

About you

You are curious with excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills. You enjoy working with leaders, peers and teams to solve problems and seek opportunities to be part of taking Mine Technical Services forward.

Reporting to the General Manager Mine Technical Services, and working in a challenging and exciting environment within Iron Ore, you will:

• Lead by example by embodying our values of courage, care and curiosity.

• Deliver and lead geotechnical work across all time horizon including studies work for future deposits.

• Empower your team to contribute to the cultural change process by fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement.

• Establish clear accountability measures to track progress and celebrate successes.

• Drive a best operator mindset, by developing the right metrics and qualitative assessments to measure performance, whether that be program execution or the impact of cultural change efforts.

• Remain adaptable and flexible in response to evolving circumstances or unforeseen challenges. Adjust strategies as needed while staying aligned with the overall vision.

• Provide direct leadership to all reports including annual cyclical activities, regular performance conversations and support for team and individual technical development.

• Actively support proactive engagement with Traditional Owners across the Pilbara.

• Drive the development of technical capability though building technical competency and capability frameworks.

• Developing networks externally with industry peers and academia to ensure that RTIO is adopting leading technical practices.

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• Recognised Degree in Civil Engineering, Engineering Geology or Geoscience discipline.

• Experience in leading large technical teams

• Strategic thinking: deep strategic thinking and numerical/analytical skills. Able to maintain perspective and switch between strategic and tactical priorities quickly

• Judgement: able to identify and frame complex issues and opportunities quickly, and bring to resolution with a solid ethical framework

• Stakeholder engagement: ability to develop productive, collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills: ability to frame and convey complex messages to a range of stakeholders using a wide range of communication methods

Leaders with a strategic mindset, operational focus, curiosity and drive to contribute are strongly encouraged to apply.

What we offer

• Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you have 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 bonus.

• 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, cultural leave).

• To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them.

• Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more. 

Where you’ll be workingBased in the Perth CBD, Central Park, this role encourages agile ways of working, on a Monday – Friday roster. Regular travel to the Pilbara is required.

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own an integrated portfolio of iron ore assets: a world-class, integrated network of 17 mines, four independent port terminals, a 1,700 kilometre rail network and related infrastructure – all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand. 

We are one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of iron ore.

Applications close on 2 October 2025 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)

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About Rio TintoRio 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 situations and meet opportunities.

Every Voice MattersAt 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.