Principal Technical Assurance

Principal Engineer Technical Assurance

• Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities
• Be recognised as an expert in your field
• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
• Perth based with irregular commute to our Pilbara operational sites

About the role

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

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.

We are looking for a Principal Engineer Technical Assurance to lead a team of subject matter experts, providing independent review and assessment of projects and providing technical support to project leaders across Sustaining Capital Projects.

You’ll utilise your outstanding ability to partner with a variety of internal and external stakeholders including site based operational leaders, functional leaders, and asset management service providers to deliver complementary solutions to the business.

Reporting to the Manager, Portfolio Management, you will be:

• Leading Technical Assurance, a team of technical subject matter experts for the Sustaining Capital project portfolio
• Developing the engineering processes and systems which are critical for successful project outcomes
• Representing the engineering support for project leaders through project review stages
• Fulfilling a technical assurance role as required to ensure sound engineering for multidisciplinary projects
• Champion Safety in Design for all projects to ensure best industry practice and compliance to relevant standards 
• Leaning on your extensive industry experience, proving guidance to project leads and teams in the development and review of project Scopes of Work, Basis of Design and User Requirement Specifications
• Reviewing design deliverables such as drawings, calculations and reports
• Providing input into HAZOPs, HAZIDs and the response of technical queries (TQ), construction queries and general technical support
• Supporting commercial activities through technical input i.e. TQ responses, technical reviews of tenders
• Ad hoc travel to our Pilbara operations will be required for inspections of plant and equipment

What you’ll bring

As a valued partner of our site operation teams and project leaders, you will build close partnerships with the internal and external stakeholders therefore your communication, collaboration and engagement skills will be valuable. 

Your ability to work in both a team environment and autonomously is essential as you will require strong decision making capability with the ability to lead, influence and motivate your team.

This role presents opportunities to work across a diverse range of projects, it is essential you have a strong understanding of the project lifecycle, Australian Standards, Safety in Design.

Your experience in project management will be highly regarded. Project scoping, design, commissioning and strong problem resolution is required to succeed in this role. You’ll bring your experience in defining and implementing project improvement initiatives to maximise capital efficiency throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Whilst knowledge of Mine and Port operations is advantageous, your experience may include other heavy industries such as oil/gas, aviation and manufacturing.

You’ll be required to bring your Engineering degree education into this role, a Chartered professional engineer will be highly regarded as you will be required to have a strong understanding of engineering design and construction processes.

The commitment to the safety of yourself and your team with a positive attitude and strong values is a must.

We require you to hold a “C Class” WA Driver’s license.

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 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

Where you’ll be working

Flexible working arrangements are available. You can take advantage of an ideal combination of working remotely, from home as well as spending face-to-face time with your colleagues on a regular basis at our head office in Central Park - Perth CBD, with irregular site travel required.

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own an integrated portfolio of iron ore assets: a world-class, integrated network of 16 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.

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.

Applications close on the 2^nd September 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)