Manager Rail Strategy

Manager, Rail Strategy

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Play a key role in changing the shape of the Rio Tinto Rail network
• Perth based opportunity with ad hoc travel to site

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

The Rio Tinto Iron Ore Rail Division is at the core of delivering our business objectives, which include to reliably and safely deliver iron ore to the Ports from 17 mining operations across 1,900km of captive rail network. Our long-term vision is to become a safe, reliable, integrated, cost efficient and net zero emissions transporter of iron ore. 

We are looking for a Manager Rail Strategy to lead the strategy and delivery of transformational projects across the rail network. In particular, this role leads the railway’s effort to achieve net zero emissions and develop digital systems to optimise the maintenance and operation of the network.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

Reporting to the General Manager Rail Engineering & Strategy and working in a collaborative community within the Rail Strategy department, you will:

• Lead experienced and knowledgeable subject matter experts within the Iron Ore Rail Strategy team whose expertise spans across Productivity Optimisation, Sustainability, Strategy Delivery, Physical Assets, People & Change, Intelligent Systems and Partnerships
• Deliver a complex program of work
• Provide long term strategies and plans with a clear line of sight from the overall business objectives building capacity, productivity and improvement
• Implement core activities, practices and procedures and follow-ups to develop safety culture

What you’ll bring

You are an experienced people leader who is ready for a role of this complexity. You’re well versed in leading technical teams, perhaps you’re in a similar role and looking for a challenge that will give you exposure to the innovative application of world leading technology. This is the role that will set you apart with experience you can’t get anywhere else.

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Leadership skills and confidence in frontline stakeholder management 
• Proven experience in developing long-term strategy and translating this into programs for execution
• Proven experience working in project delivery 
• Experience in organisation change, prioritising people and problem solving
• Engineering degree (desirable) or relevant experience in asset-intensive industry, leading technical teams

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your work, and go home knowing you’ve 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 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)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins witha 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

We operate 220 locomotives on more than 1,900 kilometres of track in the Pilbara, transporting ore from 17 mines to four port terminals. The average return distance of these trains is about 800 kilometres with the average journey cycle, including loading and dumping, taking approximately 40 hours.

Our network is the largest privately owned and operated heavy haul rail system in Australia, and as we focus on the future, our vision is to become the greatest heavy haul railway in the world.

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 24^th October 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)