Project Lead - Site Capital

Project Leader – Site Capital: Yarwun Refinery

• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion

 About the role

Rio Tinto Yarwun is looking for a Project Leader. This is a project management role to help develop and deliver site-based capital works ranging from 500,000 AUD upwards. As a leader, you will be responsible approximately half a dozen jobs at once, in various stages of project development, from the front-end loading phases through to execution, start-up and handover for our Yarwun operation.

Working in collaboration with the Capital Projects team, Business and Risk staff (portfolio controllers), Engineering, Maintenance and Operations, you are responsible for:

• Determining and aligning business and project objectives
• Lead various functional groups across the business in the development of project deliverables
• Provide strategic direction for projects in the portfolio
• Ensure each project has a clearly defined scope of work that aligns to the business objectives
• Adherence to the capital framework for project development and delivery
• Maintain monthly cost forecasts in accordance with Sustaining Capital KPI’s.
• Obtain approvals, identify trends and act to avoid cost overruns and take advantage of opportunities
• Capability to identify and manage risk
• Capability to manage cross-functional stakeholders and asset owners to obtain consensus and drive project delivery

What you will bring

• 5+ years’ experience in an industrial environment in a similar role
• Proven project development and delivery skills
• Experience with a phased and gated project management system
• Excellent written and numerical skills
• A commitment to your on-going professional development
• Personal accountability for own performance, and foster personal accountability in your team
• Capabilities with project estimating, cash flow forecasting, reporting and scheduling

What we offer

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP)
• Access to top tier family-friendly health and medical programs
• Excellent retirement plan
• Paid Parental Leave Up to 9 Months (No distinction between primary or secondary carer)
• A comprehensive leave policy that covers all moments that matter in life (vacation/annual, paid parental leave, short term sick leave, paid holidays)
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program

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.

Rio Tinto Aluminium – Yarwun Operations

With production beginning in 2004 at our Yarwun alumina refinery, located approximately 10 kilometres north-west of Gladstone in Central Queensland, today the operation produces more than three million tonnes of alumina per year.

Around 700 people support the operation, with an additional 350 contractors on site each year as part of scheduled maintenance shutdown activities. Thanks to its ‘Industry 4.0’ focus, Yarwun is also a leader in trialling new technologies to improve operations on site, including 3D printing, robotics and drones in confined spaces, and is home to Rio Tinto’s innovative Queensland Research and Development Centre (QRDC).

Along with Boyne Smelters Limited and Queensland Alumina Limited, our Yarwun Operation supports the local community in a wide range of initiatives through Here for Gladstone.

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.

Closing date 3rd October 2022 

“Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove job postings prior to the stated closing date, therefore, if you are interested in applying for this vacancy please submit your application as soon as possible.”