Program Lead – Mine Development

Program Lead – Mine Development

• Supportive team culture with a focus on inclusion, safety and work life balance
• An exciting strategic & project delivery role
• Monday to Friday, Perth based role with frequent travel to site

About the role

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

We are looking for a motivated and engaging Program Lead to lead a high-performance team of Project Leads and Engineers, critical to the success of Rio Tinto's Brockman 4 Operations. Working with established systems and processes, you will deliver a portfolio of sustaining capital projects that support our mining operations to produce iron ore in a safe and cost-effective manner.

The scope of work you will be accountable for is challenging and diverse. Your demonstrated ability to engage, connect and positively influence key stakeholders at all organizational levels will play a critical part to the effectiveness in this role.

You will be an inspiring role model and coach for positive behaviours, practices and processes, whilst providing leadership, development and support to a team of project professionals responsible for delivering a portfolio of projects from pre-feasibility study phase, through to implementation and closure of the project.

Reporting to the Principal Advisor for the region, some of the accountabilities of this role include:

• Responsible for the allocation of project engineering, construction and vendor resources to support the implementation of the portfolio.
• Accountable for the program schedule, budget and risk register providing support to the Project Leads to identify project issues and develop appropriate solutions to maintain safe and efficient project progress.
• Engage frequently with key project stakeholders (internal and external), to ensure sufficient priority is given to these projects to maintain suitable delivery momentum.
• Prepares monthly progress reports and presents at monthly SteerCo and study meetings
• Develop the program business case in line with the business strategy for the region
• Preparation and technical review of critical documents (funding papers, scope of work, noting papers, approvals applications)
• Engage internal and external stakeholders, utilising our approvals system to create a project delivery plan which meets or exceeds all requirements of a Sustainable mining operation which minimises impact on our environment and our pays respect to our traditional land owners.
• Commitment to safety, wellness, environment, heritage and community.
• Supporting the improvement of the project delivery systems, processes and procedures ensuring that they are standardised and embedded across the team. 
• Upskilling teams so they are accountable for their own processes and procedures and to seek capital efficiency throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Work within a leadership team to share resources and prioritise projects, effectively delivering projects, minimising risk and maximising value to the business.
• Working closely with support teams in areas such as Project Controls, Contracts & Procurement and Health & Safety to safely execute your projects to realise the benefit to our operations.
• A valued partner of our site operation and maintenance teams as you build close partnerships with the internal and external stakeholders to deliver focussed solutions.

Where you will be working

You will be based out of our head office located in Perth Central Park building, working Monday to Friday with site travel as required.

About you

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

• Committed to the Rio Tinto Values of Care, Courage and Curiosity
• Full commitment to deliver projects with zero harm
• Strong problem solving skills and ability to produce large, complex, cohesive reports with multiple inputs and ability to manage large budgets.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy the challenges and reward this presents
• Understand how to work within a matrix organisation
• Solid experience working within project leadership roles and be confident in effectively leading, mentoring and coaching team members as well as interfacing with senior leaders
• Multi discipline project management experience, with the ability to define and implement project improvement initiatives to maximise capital efficiency
• Demonstrated complex problem-solving abilities to deliver solutions across an operation
• A current manual WA Driver’s license.

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Tertiary qualification or equivalent in an Engineering, Science, Commercial, Operational Readiness or other relevant field.
• Project Management qualifications.
• Experience leading a complex piece of work requiring the coordination of a large multi-disciplinary team

What’s on offer

• 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

Applications close on Monday, 17th October 2022. (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)

This role is for applicants residing in or willing to permanently relocate to Western Australia.

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.

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