Senior Advisor Project Controls

Senior Advisor Project Controls

• Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities
• Diverse & challenging projects within the growth and closures area
• Permanent Full Time Brisbane-based role supporting multiple commodities

About the role

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

We are looking for a Senior Advisor Project Controls to support our Brisbane-based growth and closure team. Our team partners with study leads and project managers to deliver projects and studies across an Australian portfolio including Aluminium and Copper.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced cost controller to work on high value, one-of-a-kind projects. We have invested in building our growth and closures capability and this role will offer great variety and career potential.

Reporting to the Manager Project Controls Closures and working in a collaborative and exciting environment, you will be:

• Preparing package setup (contracts and purchase orders)
• Package forecasting of costs
• Developing detailed estimates and review of service provider estimates
• Liaising with key stakeholders to ensure engagement and buy-in of package forecasts
• Forecasting activities for commitment and expenditure
• Reviewing cost data and providing analyses on the package with recommendations
• Communicating and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to build effective relationships

What you will bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Previous experience in cost control for major packages
• Understanding of project management and controls concepts
• Ability to work well within a team and independently as a self-starter
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Exposure to Major Project and Tier 1 EPC or EPCM contractors desirable.

 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’s Development and Technology group engages and partner with Rio Tinto businesses across 73 operating sites, 35 countries and 6 continents to help create value, manage risk and innovate for the future, whilst providing range of support and services functions, to ensure technical optimisation, establish and transfer best practices, develop strategies to drive performance improvements, and ensure that technical innovation provides a source of long-term competitive advantage.

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

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.

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.

Applications close on Wednesday, 23^rd November 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)