Project Controls Manager

Project Controls Manager

• Great opportunity to join a global organisation at the forefront of mining
• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development 
• Permanent Full Time Opportunity based in Perth

About the role

We are looking for a Project Controls Manager to join our Rio Tinto Projects team to lead the project controls functions for significant execution and study phase projects with Iron Ore’s growth portfolio. This role is a great opportunity to lead and motivate the Project Controls team and provide technical advice and support to Study Managers, Project Managers, and the broader Project Services team. You will be based in Perth and will travel to project sites as required.

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 Project Controls, you will be responsible for:

• Partnering with Study Lead and Project Manager to deliver projects through study stage gates into execution
• Leading the Owners Team project controls personnel embedded in the project team
• Managing project controls practices and ensuring compliance with Rio Tinto Projects systems, policies, and procedures
• Problem solving and providing advice to Project and General Managers regarding all project controls related issues including cost and progress, schedule and change management
• Preparing and validating project reports, as well as regular auditing of project controls reporting, cost and schedule status
• Providing input into the development and improvement of project controls procedures and practices to ensure procedures meet or exceed industry current best practice
• Liaising with our Construction Contractors on a weekly basis to ensure alignment to plan and support accurate forecasting of cost and schedule
• Act as a key connector across various Rio Tinto entities by interfacing with centralised and functional teams
• Identify opportunities to set-up and integrate alternative project delivery strategies designed to maximise performance

About you

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

• Extensive hands-on experience in project controls attained within owners team, EPCM and contractor environments
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Thorough understanding of project management and controls concepts

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Degree qualifications in Engineering, Business/Commerce or similar
• Project controls experience across multiple project delivery models and commodity groups

You should also be passionate about delivering pragmatic, optimised solutions and have a drive for results and an appetite for constructive challenge.

 What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, thinking, and 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)
• Relocation assistance where necessary

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.

Where you will be working

Rio Tinto Projects helps to grow our business by building new mines and assets and studying the different options for both new construction projects and operations approaching closure. We are recognised for delivering safely on time and on budget or better. We have won multiple awards for our work, including at the Amrun Bauxite mine in North Queensland, Australia, and on the AutoHaul™ driverless trains in the Pilbara, Western Australia.

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 Thursday, 17^th November (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).