Senior Manager Generative

Senior Manager Generative

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
• Manage a highly experienced technical team as part of a leading global company
• Permanent employment based in Perth or Brisbane, Australia

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Senior Manager Generative to join our Rio Tinto Exploration (RTX) department. The Australasia (AAR) Generative team within RTX forms a key component of the Australasia region exploration effort and is vital to the continued generation of new growth options.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced leader to drive RTX initiatives and strategic direction across a broad range of commodities and technical disciplines. You will create and protect RTX and Rio Tinto value and accelerate the rate of discovery.

We are an open, connected international team of technical specialists using some of the most exciting data and tools on the planet. We are the world leader in automation and smart mining.

We have technical development programmes that are industry-leading and recognise the unique nature of your role. These provide opportunities to grow your career through a dedicated technical path while being rewarded for your unique skills.

Reporting to the Exploration Director, this is a global role where you will lead a team of Geoscientists and direct the enormous capability of our technical team to drive new growth opportunities for Rio Tinto. You will have a supportive leader who will set you up to make this role your own, encourage personal development and open long-term career pathways within Rio Tinto.

You will be a key contributor in prioritising the AAR Exploration project portfolio, the regional exploration strategy and pipeline renewal, and operate as an effective member of the AAR management team. This role provides the opportunity for you to work within a broad, diverse, and complex exploration environment. Through effective leadership and in partnership with your strong technical skill, you will:

• Manage the regional long-term project generation aspirations across commodities of interest, effectively managing tasks and projects
• Develop and review technically stage-able exploration plans with clear milestones to exploration success
• Play a lead role in technically assessing and recommending third party project acquisitions or proposing and securing open ground
• Effectively manage annual budget and forecasting processes
• Deliver quality project outcomes by seamlessly integrating data compilation and review with sound technical evaluation and field operations
• Assess, support and develop novel direct detection, proxy or near miss techniques
• Research, develop and apply new exploration concepts to terrain-scale analysis
• Acquire, collate, process and interpret large terrain-scale datasets and builds unique GIS-based targeting frameworks
• Establishing relationships with key geological bodies to stay conversant of the latest geological research and ideas
• Encourage strong collaboration with internal exploration teams, especially functional/support and technical/project teams
• Synthesise large complex datasets to produce unique technical outcomes

What you’ll bring

As a senior leader within RTX, you will demonstrate a desire to provide coaching and mentoring to build internal generative and technical capabilities across the regional team. You will hold an innate curiosity and passion to identify opportunities that have eluded previous explorers. Your experience and demonstrated attributes include:

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Tertiary degree in Geology or related Geoscience field (Master’s degree and/or specialisation in Geochemistry is highly regarded)
• Proven leadership experience coupled with the ability to manage technical teams
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills to navigate multi-commodity/multi-country initiatives and cultures in dynamic situations
• Effective communication and stakeholder engagement skills to drive strategic direction across internal and external global partnerships
• Field experience and technical skill required to interpret evidence and data
• Ability to adapt to and make decisions across a dynamic project portfolio

What we offer

Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical programs, pension and savings plans
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts

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 Exploration group seeks to create value for the business by discovering or acquiring new mineral resources. Organized into three regional teams (Americas, Australasia, Africa-Europe), the Exploration group provides both a global reach and a local presence across a range of commodities, with a focus on copper, nickel, lithium and iron ore.

As a global role, there is an ongoing requirement for flexible hours outside the standard working day to support colleagues in alternative time zones. The ability to schedule your time flexibly around this requirement will be offered in return.

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.

Apply today if you want to work with the latest technology and innovation, in an environment where we challenge you to drive positive change towards finding better ways.

Applications close on 30 July 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).