Senior Project Engineer - Civil

Senior Project Engineer - Civil

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion and innovation
• Challenging civil engineering and project management scope and make your mark in a business-critical project
• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
• Permanent full-time role based in Perth

About the role

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

We are looking for a Senior Project Engineer – Civil to join our next mine development feasibility study at Hope Downs. You will play a key role in overseeing the development of the civil and earthworks design and developing key components of the execution strategy for the implementation phase.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced engineer to be involved in a business-critical project. The project offers a challenging and interesting civil engineering scope that will build and develop both your Technical and Project Management skill set. There is an ongoing opportunity to see the project through to implementation and commissioning phases.

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 Project Manager working in a collaborative professional team you will be:

• Overseeing development of civil engineering scope by specialist contractors on behalf of the owners team
• Forecast, cost analysis and project estimating
• Reports on engineering progress, cost and scheduling to meet engineering reporting requirements
• Supporting engagement and performance of external engineering contractors
• Supporting compliance with standardised processes, systems and tools
• Works with project planning and scheduling to develop and maintain the project schedule
• Developing safety maturity for construction readiness
• Coordinating procurement activities for civil engineering packages.

What you will bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Strong communication skills, and an ability to influence change

• Experience leading projects and/or work packages
• Demonstrated complex problem-solving abilities to deliver creative solutions across an operation
• Tertiary qualification in Civil Engineering is essential
• Road design, Bridge or bulk earthworks design experience highly desirable.

What we offer

Be recognised 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
• 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 (D&T) 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 as well as 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, and 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 Monday, 23^rd January (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.