Senior Manager Project Controls

Senior Manager Project Controls

• Great opportunity to join a global organisation at the forefront of mining
• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development 
• Permanent Full Time Opportunity based in Perth

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Manager Project Controls to lead the project controls function for a significant pipeline of large-scale capital projects. You will drive the adoption of leading practice approaches in scheduling, estimating, cost control, risk management and reporting. This is a great opportunity to influence the effectiveness of a high-performing function whilst driving further enhancements.

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 General Manager Project Services, you will be responsible for:

• Leading a large and experienced team of project controls practitioners supporting a portfolio of mine and infrastructure projects.
• Providing strategic advice to project delivery leaders and generate meaningful insights about project execution from a wide range of data sources.
• Lead a business improvement process to enhance project controls systems, processes and people including all aspects of planning forecasting, planning, cost control and supporting functions.
• Identifying and supporting the delivery of improvement opportunities for streamlining work process.
• Applying disciplined governance and quality assurance across capital projects.
• Maintaining relationships with key stakeholders to drive a culture of collaboration, participation, and improvement.
• Analysing and reporting progress to plan to provide a firm basis for strategic and operational decisions.
• Managing and developing the performance of the team in line with Rio Tinto’s company values, in order to achieve objectives.
• Contributing to the capital projects guidance and protocols in the capital projects framework.

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your colleagues
• Demonstrated experience as a Senior Leader with well-developed communication, coaching and influencing capability
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and collaborative ability to build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Thorough understanding of project management and controls concepts

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Degree qualification in Business/Commerce or Engineering or similar
• Previous success in leading a team of Project Controls professionals
• Project controls experience across multiple project delivery models

You should also be passionate about delivering pragmatic, optimised solutions and have a drive for results and appetite for constructive challenge.

 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 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 16^th November 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).