Senior Advisor Projects

Senior Advisor Projects

• Leadership role managing a team of Project Advisors
• FIFO from Perth to Paraburdoo – 5 days on 2 off, 4 days on 3 off
• Key role in delivering the Sustaining Capital Plan at Paraburdoo

About the role

Finding better ways to provide thematerials the world needs.

If you are an experienced people leader and are looking to advance your career, we have an exciting opportunity for you as a Senior Advisor Projects. This is a non-project management role whose primary focus is to lead a high-performance team of site-based Project Advisors. Working with established systems and processes, you will support the safe delivery of sustaining capital projects which enable our Paraburdoo operations to produce iron ore in a safe and cost-effective manner.

Reporting to the Superintendent Paraburdoo Delivery and working in a challenging and exciting environment, you will:

• Manage Advisor allocations, rosters and ensure every team member has a quality development plan which is established and tracked regularly
• Be a champion of Safety and Rio Tinto Values of Care, Courage and Curiosity, leading by example, coaching, mentoring both direct reports and contracting groups and leading investigations which produce real actions to influence change
• Coach and train Project Advisors in RTIO safety and project delivery systems and implement RTIO/Sustaining Capital safety system updates and improvements
• Engage early with the Project Leads and Engineers to ensure the project preparation sets up for safe and successful project delivery
• Monitor and influence the quality and schedule requirements of each project in the portfolio, ensuring safe delivery of a quality product whilst adhering to scheduled timelines
• Be a single point of contact for stakeholder and end user engagement across the site

What you’ll bring

You will be an inspiring role model and coach for positive behaviours, practices, and processes, whilst providing leadership, development and support to the team.

To be successfully considered for this role you will have:

• Full commitment to deliver projects with zero harm and to champion to the Rio Tinto Values of Care, Courage and Curiosity
• Demonstrated skills in a previous Leadership role
• Strong people management skills
• Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills
• Previous experience in a FIFO based role
• A current manual WA Driver’s license.

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• HSE management experience/exposure
• Contractor management experience/exposure
• Exposure to Critical Risk Management Process and Systems
• Previous experience/exposure in the resources and/or construction industry
• Strong knowledge in Microsoft Office suite;

What we 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;
• 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.

About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a leading global miningand materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore,copper, aluminium, critical minerals and other materials needed for the globalenergy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive. We havebeen mining for almost 150 years and operate with knowledge built up acrossgenerations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide thematerials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvementto produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, socialand governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused oncreating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win and meet opportunities.

Where you'll be working

Located 80km south west of Tom Price, Paraburdoois a town nestled in some of the most scenic landscape in Western Australia.Paraburdoo is recognised for its beautiful scenery, wildlife diversity andclose proximity to Karijini National Park. Paraburdoo prides itself on being asafe and friendly community; ideal for young families. The picturesque town provides residents with arange of leisure facilities and local amenities including a domestic airport,hospital, community centre, childcare centre, primary school, parks and avariety of sporting facilities. The recently built Paraburdoo Sports, Fitnessand Community Complex offers state of the art facilities including anOlympic-size swimming pool, indoor basketball court and gym.

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.

Applications close on 8th of March 2023 (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. 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.