Senior Advisor - Project Practices / Project Controls

Senior Advisor Project Practices / Project Controls

• Great opportunity for an experienced project controls professional to work for a global company at the forefront of mining
• Join an encouraging group, committed to your growth and development
• Permanent full-time or part-time role, based in Perth or Brisbane CBD with flexible working arrangements available

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Senior Advisor Project Practices / Project Controls to support the Project Practices & Improvement (PPI) team. This role can be offered as a permanent full time, or permanent part time opportunity (80% FTE) for the right candidate. This role is a great opportunity for an energetic individual, keen to learn and develop knowledge about our projects practices and systems.

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 Principal Advisor, Project Practices and working in a challenging, supportive and exciting environment within the Project Practices team, you will be:

• Managing and driving the Rio Tinto Projects methodology (PM+) process/content improvements, changes, and updates.
• Ensuring projects methodology guidance notes, templates and other documents comply to the required review cycles and follow appropriate document control processes. This includes proactive and timely liaison with the required RT Projects and business partners teams for driving content reviews, and engagement with the project data management team.
• Providing support to project controls teams and the PPI Reporting team related to reporting processes and systems, including support during month-end reporting processes.
• Coordinating the project practices assurance (Current State Assessment) programme, including managing stakeholder engagements, coordinating reviews, report consolidation and closeout management of actions and liaison with the Integrated Assurance Office.
• Support the PPI team communications and engagement with stakeholders, including setting up and hosting Community of Practice (CoP) meetings.
• Assisting with various process and system improvements, including change management, training and coaching.
• Developing presentations and communications in support of practices and systems updates.
• Supporting administration and updates of Project Services systems, such as the reporting system and project controls system. This includes partnering with the Information Systems & Technology (IS&T) area for managing system upgrades, improvements and resolving system issues, and coordinating user/project requests or vendor requests.

What you will bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Qualification in STEM, project management, or business.
• Experience in project controls within a large construction project.
• Understanding of processes and systems, including project management practices and methodologies. This includes good understanding of planning, cost control and progress measurement practices and related KPIs.
• Strong working knowledge of project control processes (cost, risk, estimating and scheduling) and the tools used to deliver a sound governance function.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills.

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Consulting experience.
• Experience in PMO with structured approach to govern projects and portfolio.
• Experience in project and portfolio reporting.
• Experience in projects analytics and reporting systems.

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

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.

We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win and meet opportunities.

Where you’ll 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

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 Wednesday, 7^th June 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)