Specialist Warden's Court

Specialist Warden’s Court

• ·         Opportunity to work in a diverse high performing team
• ·         Build strong partnerships with a broad variety of stakeholders
• ·         Permanent full-time role | 5 days on / 2 days off | Perth CBD
• ·         Supporting renewable projects

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Specialist Warden’s Court to join the State Agreements and Approvals team within Rio Tinto. This role will support the Rio Tinto Energy Development team (RTED) by providing Warden’s Court support for an accelerated program of renewables projects. RTED has been established to support and accelerate the delivery of the Rio Tinto strategy, with multiple renewable energy workstreams in a fast-paced environment to advance Rio Tinto’s decarbonisation agenda.

This role is a great opportunity for an enthusiastic individual who possesses the ability to manage multiple tasks and projects, maintain flexibility to adapt to changing business conditions and work collaboratively with other business units.

Reporting to the Manager, Warden’s Court, Tenure Management & GIS, State Agreement & Approvals, you will:

• Assist in managing the identification, preparation and lodgement of relevant objections to protect Rio Tinto’s tenure and infrastructure portfolio
• Ensure all compliance obligations are undertaken to support the objections and Warden’s Court process within the regulatory timeframes including preparation and lodgement of statutory documents and correspondence
• Participate in third party negotiations and/or provide direction to negotiation team members with respect to Warden’s Court processes and third-party land access issues
• Appear before the Warden’s Court on behalf of Rio Tinto as required
• Liaise and interact closely with multiple internal and external stakeholders (including third party legal representatives) and multi-functional teams
• Working with internal and external Rio Tinto legal resources to assist in the drafting of affidavits and supporting documentation, minutes, programming directions, access deeds, and all other legal documentation required by the Wardens Court and for the resolution of objections
• Provide advice and pragmatic solutions to the business in regard to Wardens Court and tenure issues in relation to third party interactions, studies, projects, land access and related negotiations and strategy

What you’ll bring

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• Demonstrated understanding and sound working knowledge of the Western Australian Mining Act, Land Administration Act and State Agreement Acts or associated processes
• A high level of attention to detail, with excellent interpersonal and verbal / written communication skills and the ability to understand multi-layered issues in order to deliver solutions or recommendations
• A flexible and adaptive approach to fluctuating workloads, priorities and supporting other team members
• A tertiary qualification in a relevant field 
• Professional experience in a tenure-related field or related discipline such as government relations, or experience working within a strict regulatory or compliance environment
• Experience in the Warden's Court in Western Australia
• Experience using Mineral Titles Online, WAMEX and LANDGATE
• Experience using TENGRAPH, ArcGIS or similar mapping systems

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
• Flexible working from home arrangements as per operational requirements
• 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 and 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)

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’ll be working

Perth based in Rio Tinto’s Central Park CBD office and with a working focus on supporting operations in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.   In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own an integrated portfolio of iron ore assets supported by functional teams in the Perth hub: a world-class, integrated network of 17 mines, four independent port terminals, a 1,700 kilometre rail network and related infrastructure – all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand.

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 26 March 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)